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Category Archives: Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
Dennis Prager (b. 1948) and his wife Susan sued (26SMCV01561) over his care following the November 12, 2024 shower fall that left him quadriplegic with a C3-C4 spinal cord injury. The case has gone through three phases so far, and … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
Randall Collins (b. 1941) builds his sociology on a single unit: the situation. Not the individual, not the structure, but the encounter. In Interaction Ritual Chains (2004) he extends Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) and Erving Goffman (1922-1982) into a general theory. … Continue reading
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Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph (2012)
Applying the anthropology of John Mearsheimer to Dennis Prager’s Still the Best Hope reveals a conflict between Mearsheimer’s realism, which emphasizes the structural inevitability of group competition and nationalism, and Prager’s moral universalism, which seeks to export “American values” as … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager Health Update: June 2026
On June 19, 2026, PragerU says: “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 … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager Prefers Clarity to Agreement
Dennis Prager (b. August 2, 1948) likes to say he prefers clarity to agreement. The line serves as a creed and as a confession. In David Pinsof’s frame, clarity is the act of sorting a smooth, continuous world into two … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager and the Clarity
He slips in the shower. November 13, 2024. The back of his head meets the edge of the tub, and the cord at the C3 and C4 vertebrae takes the blow. The man who spent fifty years telling Americans that … Continue reading
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The Dennis Prager Show
Dennis Prager (b. 1948) builds his public voice around the pose of the teacher. He talks like a man at the front of a classroom who has all the time in the world. The pace runs slow. He leaves space … Continue reading
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The First Deposition in Dennis Prager’s Lawsuit Against Cedars-Sinai et al is Scheduled for Today
Here is a copy of Dennis Prager’s complaint. It was filed March 13, 2026 in Los Angeles Superior Court, case number 26SMCV01561, by attorney Heather E. Gibson of the Law Offices of Heather Gibson, P.C., Santa Clara, California, on behalf … Continue reading
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CNS: Right-wing talk show host Dennis Prager sues hospitals over medical malpractice
Hillel Aron writes for Courthouse News Service on March 16, 2026: Earlier this year, Prager expressed a degree of gratitude about his condition, telling the Christian Broadcasting Network: “A number of doctors, independently of one another, have described the fact … Continue reading
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The Last Cassandras: Status, Trauma, and the Conservative Apocalyptic Genre
Jeffrey Alexander (b. 1947) argues in his cultural trauma theory that trauma is not the automatic result of material harm. It is a social claim, advanced by carrier groups who translate diffuse anxieties into a morally legible narrative. The conservative … Continue reading
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