While speaking with PragerU CEO @realtalkwithmarissa, Dennis Prager opens with a monologue exploring whether thoughts are the same as actions, arguing that moral clarity requires distinguishing between the two. Dennis also takes questions from Prager United members for the first time since his injury, covering topics ranging from ancient wisdom in the Talmud and the Sabbath to capital punishment, honoring parents, gratitude, and how he continues to find meaning after paralysis. Join PragerUnited today and submit your question for Dennis to answer during an upcoming episode https://l.prageru.com/4g56Ph9 Watch our content ad-free on our app: https://prageru.onelink.me/3bas/vgyxvm79 Donate to PragerU: https://l.prageru.com/4jiAT85 Follow…
Dennis Prager’s son David joins Marissa with the latest health update on Dennis. After a difficult few weeks and some medical challenges, Dennis is again beating the odds and is on the road to recovery. He’s even able to enjoy watching the World Cup. Enjoy a personalized voicemail from Dennis as he expresses his gratitude for the prayers he has been receiving.
This episode tells the deeply personal story of Greta’s producer, Jessica Marquez, whose husband spent nearly five years on nightly dialysis while waiting for a kidney transplant. Jessica describes the exhausting reality of structuring family life around his treatment, raising a young child during that period, and living with the uncertainty of whether a transplant would ever come. When the long-awaited call finally arrives in September 2024, the relief is immediate but cautious, shaped by earlier false alarms and the fear that something could still go wrong. The story then opens into something even more moving: the discovery of the donor’s identity and the eventual meeting between Jessica’s family and the family of the young man…
Human nature’s affinity for complaint just won’t go away. The post The Unscratchable Itch appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Unscratchable Itch Human nature’s affinity for complaint just won’t go away. Without complaint, journalists would have no work—and, come to think of it, daily conversation would be much impoverished, if not stopped altogether. We are enjoined to count our blessings, of course, but as La Rochefoucauld pointed out more than three centuries ago, it is easier to give good advice than to take it. In the contest between complaint and counting one’s blessings, therefore, complaint wins every time. In any case, the bad is more interesting than the good, as many a writer has found. Tolstoy said that every happy family is…Open
