Dennis Prager

How does a leader decide what to do? The most logical response is: “Cui bono?” — “Who benefits?” — from the decision. If some policy benefits your

Remember John Lennon’s silly song, “Imagine”? Well, here’s my (much shorter) version. Imagine if some of the biggest cities in America seceded from

I wrote about the moral, diplomatic, international and American tragedy of abandoning Afghanistan a few months ago, so here I will address only the comment by

In my last column, I published comments written by New York Times subscribers about how proud they were of their children for deciding not to have children of

Some think tank or polling organization should ask 1,000 Americans: What is the best thing most Americans can do to make the country better? Presumably,

As many observers have noted, staying safe has become a religion. “Safetyism,” as it is sometimes called, like all religions, places what it values — in this

If you’ve seen videos of recent attacks on Jews in New York City, Los Angeles, London and elsewhere, you may have missed a very revealing aspect of those

America is going through convulsions that may destroy it as the country we and the world have known for more than two centuries. For all its flaws —

Just as physicists look for equations to explain the natural world, I have always thought it useful to look for equations to explain human nature. For example

In Why the Jews?, my book on anti-Semitism, there is a chapter on anti-Americanism. My co-author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, and I long ago understood that many

Capitalism has produced freedom and crushed poverty. Communism has produced poverty and crushed freedom. So why is there still a debate as to which system is

On March 23, Mohammad Anwar of Springfield, Virginia, a 66-year-old immigrant from Pakistan earning his living as an Uber Eats driver, was killed by two girls

When I see people walking outside, often alone with no one anywhere near them, wearing a mask, my primary reactions are disappointment and sadness. I am

Conservatives often speak of Judeo-Christian values and how the current civil war in the United States and the rest of the West is essentially a battle between

If one were to draw up a list of human needs, food and shelter would be at the top. With great respect to Freudians, sex would not be No. 2. The

I have been telling parents for decades that sending a child to almost any college is playing Russian roulette with his or her values. But it is a

One of the most highly regarded books of the 20th century was Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death.” Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, the book is regarded as

Given how flawed human nature is, America has been a remarkable moral achievement. This is the truism that separates the wise man from the fool.

Ten years ago, I wrote a column reflecting on my reactions to visiting Vietnam. Given the lack of revulsion to, and even flirtation with, communism (or its

Since the day after the 2020 presidential election, I have said I am agnostic with regard to whether the election was honestly or dishonestly decided.

In my last column, I described how I have come to better understand the moral problem of the “‘good German,’ the term used to describe the average, presumably

I am writing this column upon returning home to California after five days in Florida. For the first time since my first trip to Los Angeles in 1974 and moving

You may have seen the video of the family thrown off a United Airlines airplane because the 2-year-old daughter would not wear a mask. Though the family wore

Regarding race and much else, America’s students are not taught history. In fact, they are not taught; they are indoctrinated. With anti-Americanism. The

As there is too much to say in the space of one column, I will simply offer some thoughts on the state of the country a week after the 2020 elections. No