Communism: Who would have thought it could happen here? It has

Communism: Who would have thought it could happen here? It has

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager April 14, 2023 My field of study in graduate school was communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia’s School of International Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in the entire university to major in what was known at the time as “Communist […]

When banks — and other institutions — try to change the world, at our expense

When banks — and other institutions — try to change the world, at our expense

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, March 14, 2023 The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — the bank that just went bust — was not banking. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding the funds of its depositors. Their primary concern was social activism — […]

Why the Left is, was and always will be pro-mask

Why the Left is, was and always will be pro-mask

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, March 9, 2023 The world’s most trusted evaluator of medical studies, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, has just released as close to a conclusive report on the effectiveness of masks against respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 as we are likely to have for the foreseeable future. The report assessed […]

God matters: Western civilization’s success is rooted in moral absolutes

God matters: Western civilization’s success is rooted in moral absolutes

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, February 17, 2023 The term “Judeo-Christian values” is frequently used. I am one who uses it. I do so for the same reason the late great British prime minister Margaret Thatcher did: “The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition,” she said, “are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they […]

LGBTQ+ ‘Pride’ is bringing us North Korean thought control

LGBTQ+ ‘Pride’ is bringing us North Korean thought control

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, February 2, 2023 This past Saturday night, the New York Rangers National Hockey League (NHL) team did something almost unbelievable. Though scheduled to wear LGBTQ “Pride” jerseys during pregame warmups, not one member of the team did so. Another recent example of defying LGBTQ+ “Pride” jersey demands in the NHL […]

Who’s crazy — The religious or the irreligious?

Who’s crazy — The religious or the irreligious?

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager There are very few things conservatives, liberals and leftists agree on. But if they are irreligious, they all agree that religious Americans are more irrational than irreligious Americans. It is a secular axiom that secularism and secular people are rooted in reason, whereas religion and the religious are rooted in […]

Having shed its values, America has become the greatest exporter of destructive ideas

Having shed its values, America has become the greatest exporter of destructive ideas

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, January 3, 2022 At the present time, China is the greatest threat to world stability, Russia is the world’s premier aggressor-nation and Islamist groups are the primary exporters of terror and (religious) totalitarianism. And, for the first time in history, America is the world’s major exporter of destructive ideas. This […]

Prager: Why secular conservatives should pray and study the Bible with their children

Prager: Why secular conservatives should pray and study the Bible with their children

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, December 18, 2022 Secular conservatives have done, and continue to do, great work on behalf of America, liberty and conservatism in general. But they will not likely have conservative grandchildren — and many will not have conservative children. I know this because I speak with hundreds of conservatives a year […]

Taught obedience, not wisdom: Nation of fools learns its experts are idiots

Taught obedience, not wisdom: Nation of fools learns its experts are idiots

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager What would you think of a person who never asked the price of anything he or she bought? You would assume the person was inordinately wealthy. But if the person wasn’t, you would dismiss him as a fool, and you would certainly never ask this person for advice about how […]

You keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’: How to identify the liars

You keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’: How to identify the liars

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager [EDITOR’S NOTE: The headline reference, ‘You keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’, comes from the Nancy Sinatra song, ‘These boots are made for walking’] In a recent Fireside Chat — my weekly podcast for PragerU, half of which is dedicated to my taking questions from (mostly) young people around […]