you you mentioned dennis prager. what is prager? you prager, you is an alternative as as our educational system has declined in recent decades. prager u. offers an alternative. it began with a series of five minute videos where you could tune in and you watch a complex subject or question distilled down into 5 minutes. there are hundreds and hundreds of these videos. they've gotten billions of views online. and then prager you branched out. prager you has a number of other series as a number of influencers. you speak to young people on college campuses. has prager force which which goes out and spreads the message and then has my favorite my favorite show rather at prager u which is the book club. and so it's it's not a four year degree. it's amazing how sometimes prager u's opponents will say you're masquerading as a university. my answer to that is, oh, we would never do such a thing. we have far more respect for ourselves than to call ourselves a modern university. no. prager, u. is offering an educational alternative to people w

we are pleased to be joined by author, journalist and prager university founder, dennis prager. welcome back to the book tv set. i'm going to ask you a question i do not ask many people when i start an interview, what is on your mind these days? mr. prager: i am worried about western civilization. the greatest civilization that was ever produced, if you care about liberty, if you care about women and their status in society, if you care about uplifting the poor, if you care about creating a non-bigoted society, and of course my favorite liberty. without liberty everything is useless. i do believe give me liberty or give me death. i actually subscribe to that. it is hard to believe, but western civilization is being threatened. the very notion that there is no better or worse, that equity trumps merit, so that we will -- the oregon education department in ontario education department, the largest province in canada have announced that it is white supremacy or colonialism to argue to maintain that there is only one correct answer in mathematics. so everything we have built the wes

coverage continues with authors mark foreman and if our on gun violence and talkshow host dennis prager will take your calls live on the air. watch the festival of books live this weekend at 1:30 p.m. eastern on books tv on c-span2. to see the full schedule visit book tv.org. joining us now from capitol hill, representative matt rosendale, republican of montana. thanks for your time today. guest: good morning. thanks for having me on. host: we have seen the unveiling of the debt ceiling plan from speaker mccarthy. what is your expectation if this will pass next week? guest: i think we are just about there, pedro. i think we've got a good plan put together. it is going to do four main things. number one, it is going to fund government responsibly. that has not been done last two years under the. it is going to put caps on the spending. we all believe government is big enough we should not continue to grow it. that is the first thing. the next thing is, it is going to claw back a lot of the irresponsible spending that has been proposed and approved by democrats the last two years. we are

we are pleased to be joined by author, journalist and prager university founder, dennis prager. welcome back to the book tv set.

one interview we did was with michael knowles, the book reviewer for prager university. we talked him about some of the books that he looks at. here is a snippet of that interview. >> recently on about books, michael knowles discussed his program the book club. it is on the books that have shaped western civilization. >> michael knowles, is it a fair critique to say that the book club focuses on dead, white, european males? >> [laughter] i suppose so. the greatest writers in history in our civilization tend to be dead. it's an old civilization. they tend to be white, mostly from europe. i happen to come from the sicilian people which is ethnically ambiguous. they tend to be men, although not all of them, we have covered many women writers on the show. i just mentioned one of them who happens to have a man's name, which elliott. -- george eliot. they are christian, although not expose of the christian. one that we just featured touches on history, psychology, philosophy. that's another important point because the opponents of the western canon as you point out, they will

dennis prager will be here later. we are pleased to be joined now by author and town hall columnist, kirk -- kurt schlichter. his book is we will be back, the fall and rise of america. he is a novelist. i'm going to start with a non-book issue. in a recent town hall column, you had a column that was entitled, if i was trump's lawyer, how i would handle his case. what is the answer to that question? >> [laughter] i am still writing about it. i am a trial lawyer in california. i am not a new york lawyer. i'm not a criminal lawyer. i am an aggressive lawyer. i think they are taking it too slow. i think they are treating it like a legal case, rather than a political case. it is a legal case, it is nonsense. these elected crimes are ridiculous. everyone knows that. will they be thrown out like they would for anybody else, that is an open question. i would move aggressively, motions to dismiss. i would set the battlefield up. i went to the army war call. my strategy would be fighting in the political arena -- most of the th

dennis prager will be here later.we are pleased to be joined now by author and town hall columnist, kirk -- kurt schlichter. his book is we will be back, the fall and rise of america. he is a novelist. i'm going to start with a non-book issue. in a recent town hall column, you had a column that was entitled, if i was trump's lawyer, how i would handle his case. what is the answer to that question? >> [laughter] i am still writing about it. i am a trial lawyer in california. i am not a new york lawyer. i'm not a criminal lawyer. i am an aggressive lawyer. i think they are taking it too slow. i think they are treating it like a legal case, rather than a political case. it is a legal case, it is nonsense. these elected crimes are ridiculous. everyone knows that. will they be thrown out like they would for anybody else, that is an open question. i would move aggressively, motions to dismiss. i would set the battlefield up. i went to the army war call. my strategy would be fighting in the political arena -- most of the thi

and you'll have the chance to call in and talk to several authors as well including dennis prager andly gage, author of a new biography about j. edgar hoover. the full schedule of events will be on your program guide or at booktv.org. so join us on saturday and sunday, april 22nd and 23rd, for the los angeles times festival of books right here on booktv. finish. >> the publisher of climate depot.com argued that the science of on climate change is not settled and legislation like the green new deal will do more harm than good. his book is "green fraud." here's a portion of his interview at freedom fest. >> author mark moran know, in your book green fraud, you write that the green new deal is an all-income a passing -- income a passing transformation of society. what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, in the book i lay out hat vision of the between new deal is not chiefly about climate or energy policy. what heir trying to do is remake society, quite literally every aspect of society. and that would include everything from health care, housing, racial justice, identity politics on dow

coverage continues with authors mark foreman and if our on gun violence and talkshow host dennis pragerill take your calls live on the air. watch the festival of books live this weekend at 1:30 p.m. eastern on books tv on c-span2. s

dennis prager will be here later.we are pleased to be joined now by author and town hall columnist, kirk -- kurt schlichter. his book is we will be bac

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tomorrow, you will have a chance to talk to on author and founder dennis prager. also guests from breitbart.com. reminder, everything we are doing today will be on your program guide or at book tv.org. you can also watch these after they have erred on tv.org. want to let you know about two more books we hope to cover. number one, richard orton smith who has written dozens of books has a brand-new biography coming out on gerald ford. it is entitled in ordinary men, the surprising life and historic residency of gerald ford. it took about a decade for him to write this book. another book coming out is called letters to trump. this is donald trump's book and in this book he puts some of the letters that were written to him prior to becoming president. he makes editorial comments as well. it's a brand-new book published by a price that is run by his son, donald trump, jr.. those are two books that are coming out. another program is called about books. and that we look at the bids -- business of publishing. one interview we did was with michael knowles, the book reviewe

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