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Dennis Prager

• The Democrats’ 2020 Victory Was a Blessing in Disguise
  I never imagined I would think, let alone write, that the Democratic Party’s victory in 2020 was a blessing. But for those of us — meaning, it is now clear, a majority of us — who regard the Left as an entirely destructive force in America as it is everywhere else in the world, 2020 […]
• Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral Realm
  It may be impossible to overstate the damage done to morality by the Democrats and other leftists calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi and declaring him “Hitler.” Asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN if she believes Trump is a “fascist,” Kamala Harris said, “Yes, I do.” With regard to calling Trump “Hitler,” Newsweek’s […]
• The Secular Keep Me Religious
  I have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my — or any — religion doesn’t make sense, I don’t accept it. That’s why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is titled “The Rational Bible.” This strikes more than a few religious people as problematic, since many […]
• Israel Made the West. Israel Is Saving the West.
  It is a truism that the West was formed by Athens and Jerusalem — meaning the rational thinking introduced by Greece and the moral and religious thought introduced by Israel. Of the two, Jerusalem’s contribution was the more enduring. Relatively few Westerners read Aristotle and Plato. Virtually every citizen of the West — even the […]
• People Hate Those Who Fight Evil Far More Than Those Who Are Evil
  I realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school. I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil. What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to […]