On his radio show Apr. 9, 2012, Dennis Prager said in
reaction to the murders of blacks in Tulsa by two white men: “My great grandfather, my mother’s mother’s father was murdered by a black man. I never recall anybody in my family thinking that it was then appropriate to kill a black. It’s preposterous.”
“A man’s father is killed by blacks so he goes and kills blacks. It’s despicable.”
No matter what you do, do you ever forfeit your right to live?
“This is a symptom of a society that has substituted feelings for morality.”
“This guy felt angry, therefore I can murder.”
“Uprisings are a euphemism for ‘I think I can murder innocent people because I’m angry.’ The left is big into rage. After all, why wouldn’t you have rage if there’s a war against women, a war against blacks, a war against hispanics, a war against the poor. Man, if somebody is making war on me, I’m enraged.”
Dennis Prager described Mark Levin’s new book Ameritopia as “important” and “terrific, brief clear synopsis of political philosophy.”
Conor Friedersdorf writes for The Atlantic: “Mark Levin has good taste in political philosophers. Locke? Montesquieu? The Framers? Tocqueville? All awesome. Summarizing them for chapters on end, often using cumbersome block quotes, it’s inevitable that he managed to squeeze in some great insights that they had. If Levin adds anything beyond that to justify buying his book, rather than a Locke CliffsNotes, its his brief discussion of spontaneous orders, but they’re much more adeptly described by Hayek. Is there any original insight in Ameritopia that would justify its purchase price? There is not. He manages to list a lot of problematic things about the United States, including the budget deficit, excessive regulations, and the gradual erosion of enumerated powers as a lodestar. But he is unpersuasive in pinning these problems on utopianism, which he cannot even adequately define.”
