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

h >> host: next call for dennis prager is from san mateo, california. >> caller:r: hello, dennis.ou many, many, many, many years ago when you came to the congregation that i belong to in san c francisco, conservative. you and your partner talked about your first book called seven questions. >> guest: nine questions for you almost got it right. you missed two, it was eight questions. maybe -- try to you really know. yes, she's right about that. it is now nine but it was eight then. >> caller: how do you celebrate, how do you -- what do you do on shabbat? >> guest: all right, fine. so this is sort of introduced question because i've written a lot on judaism, including that book which is still in print. so she wants to know how i observed this about. the sabbath did by the way, i will just say i have been inviting non-jews to my shabbat dinners friday night dinners for all of my life, and most of them are christian, some of them are just non-jewish, and in 30 years of doing this, 35 years, they all say, it's really touching to see, i wish we had this. that there is no tv, there is no

and ofou course prager you and y columns and my books.oples lives or backs dennis prager's always be appreciate being about tv. >> the feeling is completely mutual. ♪ if you are enjoying book tv center for our newsletter using the qr code on the screen to receive a schedule of upcoming programs, author discussions, book festivals and more. book tv every sunday on cspan2 or any time online at booktv.org. television for serious readers. healthy democracy does not just look like this. it looks like this where americans can seat democracy at work citizens are truly influence the republic thrives. get informed straight from the source on c-span, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the nation's capitol to wherever you are. you get the opinion that matters the most is your own. this is what democracy looks like. c-span powered by cable.

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

well, look no further than a little place called prager university.conservative advocacy group founded by right-wing radio talk show host dennis prager. last week, florida became the first state to allow educational material from prager u to be taught in classrooms. the prager material targeting young children aligned to florida's revised civics and standards. this content that aligned with their standards is essentially just conservative talking points formulated into ten-minute car teen videos. a short siros of car teen videos about a duo who time travel to different periods in history and meet historical figures. soundser harmless, right? not contactually. take a look at the video of when they meet christopher columbus. >> what about slavery? you didn't deny that? >> deny? no, slavery is as old as time. and it's taken place in every corner of the world. even amongst the people i just left. being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? i don't see the problem. >> i'm sorry, what? there should never be a scenario where you start a sentence

if he is he should watch more prager u videos for education.t throwing at the wall see what would stick. his tweet or x his post took everything out of context, didn't include the video saying slavery was evil. he doesn't like desantis so is doing everything he can just like the left does with everything else. >> president biden tweeted the poli~, quoting. >> it is shows there's about 800 or a lot the number of for teacher raises is like 8 percent and the question is where is the money going and that's the question to you corey. >> right. i mean where's all the money going, joe? it's not going toward the classroom because we live in a society where you're assigned to a government school monopoly that has no incentive to spend additional dollars wisely. the administrators had grown 88 percent since 2000 so we are putting more people in buildings more dues paying members for unions. it's not so good for teachers and kids. >> the "new york post" writes. most parents totally disagree with this stuff but in california and new jersey they coop eight

bring in our education panel corey deangelis for children and jill simonian at prager u.to play the sound bite because it's worth playing. this is becky pringle. watch and watch. >> we will never be broken because we are, and we will always, always do what we must! to be worthy of our students! thank you nea for all you do every day! for our babies. >> trace: except they're not her babies. these resist every -- the parents' babies. that's kind of the thing. what do you think jill. >> i can't help but laugh because yes trace i saw this floating on social media. aside from the fired up speech that she gave i really want to let everybody know about fun facts. nea, one of the biggest teacher unions in the country spent $41 million last year in 2022 for political activism causes while spending 37 million to actually protect teachers. so we know that they are a politically activated group. and those are the people that are in charge of educating our children, and that ace what we reject at prager u kids. >> trace: that's the thing part of the problem is you have to respect your

let's bring in jill simonian, director of outreach for prager u kids and sonja shaw for unified schoolict in california. welcome to you both. the whole thing jill is, you cannot have a system where cheating is okay. where it's okay to cheat and then these kids are going to get something out of school. it just doesn't work that way. >> right and this is something at we at prager u kids have been talking about for years now, the danger and travesty of the lowering of standards, the standards keep getting lower and lower and lower and it's a fail on our education system. i know this happened in oregon but i want to take a quick look at new jersey. the new jersey board of education recently decided to lower the standards for high school graduating seniors because, under the previous standards, less than half have kids would graduate high school. so, you know, lower the standards and, hey, look, there's no problem. but it is a problem in the long run. >> trace: it is a problem and parents defending education said the following, quoting here, these equitable grading policies however well int

joining us now is xavier, exblack lives matter and prager u.ntality that we are encouraging and nurturing, where does this all end up? we're seeing some of it play out on our streets. but what else is coming? >> you know, cities like new york city and chicago have gone completely rogue because there is just such a lack of accountability. there are no consequences. and what we're seeing instead, now, is there an entire generation of people who are so used to not being condemned for this bad behavior that they don't even know the skill set of taking accountability. what they learn, instead from fraudulent organizations like black lives matter is that you should shift the blame to a relevant issues like systemic racism or looking yourself in the mirror that you need to change. there is a reason most of these people displaying violent behaviors were first time offenders. nothing stopping them from committing this crime the first place what is going to stop them the fifth, sixth, seventh time. >> laura: when mayor adams said it could have gotten ugl

job but gave me my voice >> recently on booktv's about books program, michael knowles discussed his prager-uprogram and podcast about books that have shaped western civilization. here's a portion of that interview. >> michael knowles, is it a fair critique to say that the book club focuses on the dead, white european male? >> guest: i suppose so, because the great greatest writers in history, in our civilization, ten to be dead -- it's an old civilization -- and they tend to be white. we're talking about europe, mostly white people. i happen to come9 from the i sill january people -- sicilian with people tend to be men, the writers tend to be men, but not the all of them. we've covered plenty of women, i just mentioned george elliot, and they ten to be christian. certainly not exclusively christian. in fact, the first book that we launched with was a great book by victor frankel that touches on history, psychology, my loss -- philosophy. the opponents of the western canon to, they will write the whole thing off and say, oh, it's just a bunch of dead, white men. to which i would reply, they'v

florida is also the first state to allow teaching materials from the far right nonprofit group prager describes slavery as a compromise. >> the southern colonies were dependent on slave labor and they wouldn't have joined a union that had banned it. >> are you okay with that? >> i'm certainly not okay with slavery, but the founding fathers made a compromise to achieve something great, the making of the united states. >> this is man who wrote a book about getting into a fist fight with his overseer, probably sure that's not how he talked. these policies are not about education. they're a naked attempt to create a docile and passive generation incapable of pushing for change because they don't know our nation's actual history. joining me now to discuss this is chris jones who ran against sarah huckabee sanders for governor of new york. thank you for joining me tonight on "the beat." i have to say this because i want people to understand, we're not just talking to a political candidate. you have a ph.d. in neuroscience from m.i.t., you're a pastor, a teacher. i'm not going to shout out y

but you can teach videos from prager u. project was actually written mostly by academic historians. so, when you ask why, it's because teaching black american history is political by definition. what they fear is that if we honestly grapple with the fact that we were founded as a slave holding republic, that many of our founders, believed in ideals of liberty for white men and the enslavement of black people, they're pretty clear when they say we learn the history people will learn to hate america. i don't believe that. i think it's very revealing. they think the truth of this country will make people think poorly of this country. so, they don't want our children to get that understanding. now, you and i, know if you learned about the black freedom struggle, you find this is an extremely patriotic struggle. to perfect or country where their own ancestors were in slavery. these were people who don't want our children to think they don't want our children to have empathy. and they really want to enact their very sad vision of

. >> joining me now to react is in part angela ep, a new burnaby and host of unapologetic on prager. you angela help me here. it's not a surprise to me, actually. why? if if we're changing genders and we're changing everything else, and why wouldn't this become a thing? >> you're exactly right. if we set the stage for people to be allowed to change these characteristics about themselves, then why not take on the role of changing your race? >> and i found this online. there is quite a large r.c. to race change to another community and just like transgenderism, this happens to be afflicting young women more so than any other demographic, and they are taking on racial stereotypes and listening to subliminal videos on the internet that they think can change their characteristics and have them looking like a different race. you're right. just like on gender transitions, they play into a stereotype to reinforce the identity that they now say they want to choose. you mentioned young girls. here's one disturbing personal story. >> her name is alyssa, 15, said she has felt a special connectio

caller: i wanted to address the woman who called in and recommended prager u to learn about climate change is funded by fracking billionaires. two of their family members still sit on the board. there is a little bit of a conflict of interest when it comes to climate change. we have an incredible lack of media literacy in this country and this very biased material is being taught in desantis's florida public schools, which is not a surprise. they've made a number of videos on how slavery was not that bad. if our countries education on climate change is by oil billionaires and liars, it is over. thank you. host: as we told you and we talked about this morning, president biden on a western tour this week. yesterday, he was in arizona announcing a new monument conserving land around the grand canyon, nearly one million acres and restricting uranium mining in the area. the president today around 3:00 p.m. will speak about the clean energy and manufacturing investments at a wind tower plant in albuquerque. that is on his agenda for today. in new hampshire, republican. good morning. caller: good