Prager 20150202 – 01 Empire of Cotton
Feb 2, 2015
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Dennis talks to Sven Beckert, Professor of American History at Harvard University. His new book is Empire of Cotton: A Global History.
Prager H1: Dennis talks to Dennis talks to Sven Beckert, Professor of American History at Harvard University. His new book is Empire of Cotton: A Global History.
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda; if he had a secular world view, would having slaves be a problem; there is a draft campaign for Dennis as President; after a childhood with a neglectful father, caller has found happiness; a caller has a bone to pick with something DP says; if DP could spend the day with someone, who would they be.
Prager H2: How do you get high without drugs. How important is excitement to happiness?
Prager H1: Hamas trains the next generation of killers. This is not how you build a workable society; it’s how you build a workable mafia. Do people in luxury cars cut off other motorists more than those in regular cars? According to a Berkeley study, upper class citizens have a lower moral level.
Prager H3: Are we headed for another mortgage crisis? Edward Pinto, Resident Fellow and Co-director of AEI’s International Center on Housing Risk, outlines how we may be headed towards the same mistake in his new WSJ article. Larry Arn joins Dennis to talk about the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s death and HillsdaleforPrager.com
Prager H2: The Left is out of control. Apparently you can’t do anything without a license these days. Governor Cuomo closed the subway for the first time in NYC history, just in case a person may have died due to the predicted storm.
Prager H1: Teens hustle to shovel snow for money and get stopped by police. Shoveling snow without a license is now against the law in New Jersey. Then Peter Pomerantsev award-winning contributor to the London Review of Books joins the show. His new book is Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas. His new book is God, Guns, Grits and Gravy. Hillary Clinton hasn’t done anything that makes her worthy of being President. The Left doesn’t want a woman in office, they want a LEFT woman.
Prager H2: Why do women want to join all men things, but most men don’t want to join all women things? Dennis has thoughts and callers weigh in.