The Trump administration is looking to breed a new class of pro-America refugees with the help of a new patriotic curriculum, The Daily Wire has learned.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has partnered with PragerU to provide newly arrived Afrikaner refugees escaping racial persecution in South Africa with videos and literature on American history and values as part of a new &#8220;patriotic welcome package.&#8221; President Donald Trump has prioritized the admission of Afrikaners, members of South Africa’s persecuted white minority, and recently increased the annual refugee cap to roughly 17,500 to bring more of them to the United States.
Several Afrikaner refugees brought to the United States by Trump recently told The Daily Wire that up until now, federally funded resettlement agencies have provided videos as part of their cultural orientation to American life that taught them how to shower, use a toilet, and brush their teeth. The refugees, who largely speak English and are accustomed to such cultural norms, were shocked by the material.
The content is provided to refugee aid nonprofits through the International Rescue Committee&#8217;s SettleIn initiative and is funded by HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), as previously reported.
Adriaan, an Afrikaner refugee who arrived in December, said he and his peers &#8220;laughed at a lot of these videos and made comedic remarks because they pointed out the obvious regarding not going to the bathroom outside and how to use a microwave oven.&#8221;
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The new welcome packets include a copy of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and The White House&#8217;s 1776 Report on America&#8217;s founding, according to HHS.
“On the 250th anniversary of our great nation, it is my honor to welcome Afrikaner refugees to the land of freedom and opportunity,” HHS Administration for Children and Families Assistant Secretary Alex J. Adams said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
“America has long been strengthened by individuals and families who come here seeking safety, stability, and the chance to build a better future. The Trump administration is proud to now connect refugees with resources that will support their transition to American life and help them learn of the freedoms, responsibilities, and opportunities that make this nation great,&#8221; Adams added.
PragerU&#8217;s vice president of kids programming Dzana Homan, who came to the United States as a refugee from communist Yugoslavia, is behind the program&#8217;s launch. She said the hope is &#8220;to tell&#8221; refugees &#8220;this color blind America values story about how did this country begin and what is it that makes it so special.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing right now that is provided frankly and when you look at what has happened thus far with America&#8217;s immigration, including myself, it is very hard to find information, especially for this day and age that is succinct, that is truthful &#8230; and then also celebration of America, I think that&#8217;s the important part,&#8221; Homan said.
&#8220;You want new immigrants to see America in the right light,&#8221; she said.
HHS will give each newly arrived refugee family a tablet with the PragerU app installed with all the pro-America content, Homan said. Each family will also receive &#8220;The Honest Book of America&#8217;s Founders,&#8221; which tells the story of America&#8217;s founding.
PragerU also launched &#8220;Welcome to America,&#8221; a landing page for refugees to watch 25 short videos including &#8220;A Moral Case for Capitalism&#8221; hosted by former European Parliament member Daniel Hannan, &#8220;The Government Doesn&#8217;t Make Money — You Do&#8221; hosted by business advisor Carol Roth, and &#8220;Do You Understand the Electoral College?&#8221; hosted by expert Tara Ross. The playlist also features videos hosted by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager, and retired Navy SEAL officer Jocko Willink.
&#8220;Welcome to America. You’ve arrived to a nation built by people who came searching for freedom, opportunity, and a fresh start — just like you,&#8221; the website reads.
&#8220;These short videos will introduce you to America’s history, values, and how this country works, so you can feel confident, informed, and ready to build the life you came here for. With content for every age, your whole family can learn together,&#8221; it adds.
The website also features children&#8217;s content from kindergarten to sixth grade &#8220;and up&#8221; discussing the themes of Independence Day, Thanksgiving, the Bill of Rights, and George Washington.
&#8220;PragerU is already the go-to source for millions of Americans seeking inspiring and educational content about our nation&#8217;s history and values,&#8221; PragerU CEO Marissa Streit said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. &#8220;Now, we are proud to help new Americans learn about and appreciate our great country.&#8221;
PragerU provided all the content for the program free of charge, Homan said. ORR will distribute the new materials to refugees starting Wednesday.
Editor&#8217;s Note: This story has been updated after HHS clarified that they&#8217;ve since removed the book &#8220;Lwazi&#8217;s Hard Lesson,&#8221; the story of a black South African boy living through racial tensions in the post-apartheid era, from the welcome packages.

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As anti-ICE rioters began to swarm Los Angeles on Friday, former PragerU personality-turned-independent-journalist Aldo Buttazzoni was right there to greet them.
Buttazzoni captured the escalating situation with photos and video footage, dedicated to painting a more accurate picture of the riots than he knew the mainstream media would. He documented the activity on his X <a href="https://x.com/AldoButtazzoni">feed</a>, where hundreds of users have shared his photos, including tech titan Elon Musk.
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This is my photo! Thank you for sharing Elon! <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>
&mdash; Aldo 🌞 (@AldoButtazzoni) <a href="https://twitter.com/AldoButtazzoni/status/1931900528390492556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“I love independent journalism,” Buttazzoni told The Daily Wire. “I was in Houston after the Uvalde shooting. I was in D.C. right after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. When there’s stuff going on, I like to be there because I know how much disinformation there is. To be quite honest, I trust myself to get that news out and get the stuff that other people might not.”
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Protests clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Friday, June 6, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-ice-activist-run-over-as-protests-over-raids-get-ugly?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=81&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Anti-ICE+Activist+Run+Over+As+Protests+Over+Raids+Get+Ugly">reported</a>. Many hardline Democrats sided with the protestors, with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass saying she was “deeply angered” by the ICE raids.
On Saturday, Buttazzoni spent the entire day in Paramount, which is on the border of Compton, and said that was the first day the rioting started.
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NOW: Current scene in Paramount, CA between protestors &amp; LAPD <a href="https://t.co/Mo9IwTGlbE">pic.twitter.com/Mo9IwTGlbE</a>
&mdash; Aldo 🌞 (@AldoButtazzoni) <a href="https://twitter.com/AldoButtazzoni/status/1931480149209559506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“We have good gear, so I personally don’t feel like I’m in imminent danger, but it is scary,” he admitted. “It’s definitely jarring when there’s explosions going off next to your ear. [As] a public figure, the most dangerous and scariest part is having your face out there. On Friday, before things even got really bad, I was surrounded by a mob of protestors and assaulted.”
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NOW: Anti-ICE protestors surrounded me &amp; attempted to grab my belongings while documenting the protests. 
They accused me of being an agitator &amp; “infiltrator” despite me wearing a name tag. I never hide who I am when filming protests like I have done countless times. <a href="https://t.co/vST8pLdOls">pic.twitter.com/vST8pLdOls</a>
&mdash; Aldo 🌞 (@AldoButtazzoni) <a href="https://twitter.com/AldoButtazzoni/status/1931198649008054755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“[Saturday was] when I really saw the damage. The street was damaged, dumpster fires, empty lots caught on fire, graffiti, vandalism. … I would say the mile-radius of immediate damage was Hill Street to Temple to Central Avenue. It was relatively small, but that doesn’t discount the amount of damage they were able to do in such a small area.”
Buttazzoni said personal politics should not matter in situations where the law must be enforced, especially when violence is involved.
“President Trump is not taking over. He’s doing the bare minimum job that the citizens elect people to do, which is to keep their cities safe. … On Sunday, I witnessed rioters tearing up sidewalks and hurling twenty to thirty pound rocks off an overpass while shouting, ‘Aim for the heads, aim for the heads!’ That’s all that needs to be said. There was violent intent, not just violent outcomes.”
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🚨BREAKING: Rioters are tearing up the side walk &amp; collecting ROCKS to throw at law enforcement. LAPD continues to show incredible restraint despite multiple of their vehicles being destroyed.
Graffiti &amp; destruction is widespread with no sign of stopping. <a href="https://t.co/igkbnVrzdw">pic.twitter.com/igkbnVrzdw</a>
&mdash; Aldo 🌞 (@AldoButtazzoni) <a href="https://twitter.com/AldoButtazzoni/status/1931897508185416123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Despite having documented multiple protests and riots, Buttazzoni said these are the worst he’s ever seen and that the rioters&#8217; brazenness is the most disturbing part of it.
“The protests and the riots I’ve been to, there’s always a sense of fear. Or, at least, there’s a sense that people are on alert that they’re going to get caught. On Sunday, I don’t think I’ve ever seen protestors act with such impunity and such confidence that law enforcement was going to do nothing — or could do nothing.”
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has come under fire for his mishandling of the riots, yet refuses to take responsibility, blaming President Donald Trump for escalating the situation by sending in the National Guard.
“Donald Trump has manufactured a crisis and is inflaming conditions,” Newsom said in an X <a href="https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1931916595628237077">post</a>.
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Donald Trump has manufactured a crisis and is inflaming conditions.
If he can’t solve it, we will.
To the bad actors — Violent acts will not be tolerated. You will be arrested. You will be prosecuted. You are doing more than just damage to buildings and property. You are… <a href="https://t.co/VMLqdUDS56">pic.twitter.com/VMLqdUDS56</a>
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1931916595628237077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Buttazzoni disagrees, saying the National Guard “absolutely needed to come in.”
“I want to stress this — yesterday was the least violent of all of the three days, and I think a big reason for that was because the National Guard was deployed. They were stationed at the Federal Building very early on in the day, and what we saw throughout the day was a significantly increased presence of LAPD on the street.”
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This is the least violent / least amount of altercations of the last 3 days (so far). Possibly due to it being the work week &amp; increased media presence.
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According to Buttazzoni, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, LAPD presence on the street lasted only until nightfall because they did not have the manpower to protect the federal buildings at the same time. He said that when the National Guard came in, LAPD made more arrests than the prior three days combined.
“They corralled a big group of rioters. Maybe 150 people were in that group. I was detained, but that large scale arrest was the first I had seen of the last four days.”
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All is well. LAPD detained &amp; released me after verifying my information.
Thank you for the well wishes. <a href="https://t.co/f1xRjO1jYV">https://t.co/f1xRjO1jYV</a>
— Aldo 🌞 (@AldoButtazzoni) <a href="https://twitter.com/AldoButtazzoni/status/1932293485325078763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
Buttazzoni went on to criticize the higher-ups for choosing to complain about President Trump’s involvement instead of welcoming it.
“When you’re the governor of a state and the downtown area is being destroyed — people are losing businesses and people are getting injured and the taxpayer is going to have to foot the bill for this. So, for them to not do their job and then get upset at a person higher than them saying they’re going to do their job for them … it’s ridiculous.”
As an independent journalist, Buttazzoni pays for much of his own expenses and is <a href="https://tr.ee/MitolNAC3K">accepting donations</a> toward his continued activity.

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As an educator and parent, I’ve long wondered if America’s education system can ever recover from the ever-expanding, costly bureaucratic machine it has become. A machine that inhales taxpayer dollars and exhales nothing — not literacy, not educated children, not competence. Unfortunately just a steady stream of bloated budgets, federal grants, and equity initiatives.
This machine is called the Department of Education. Founded in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter, it was designed not to improve schools but to buy political favor with the National Education Association (NEA), the country’s largest teachers’ union. From the beginning, its function was clear: funnel billions of dollars into a federal stronghold for progressive priorities while granting the unions unchecked influence over education policy. It was never meant to make our children smarter; it was meant to make Washington more powerful.
After 45 years of unmitigated failure, President Trump has officially signed an executive order to begin eliminating the Department of Education once and for all and I had the incredible honor of witnessing this historic event first hand. The president assured all of us in the room who are at the forefront of the fight for our country’s educational future that the department’s useful functions will be fully preserved such as Pell Grants and resources for special needs by being redistributed to various agencies and departments as he returns education back to the states.
In total, the DOE employed over 4,400 bureaucrats, until the new administration recently reduced this number by close to 50% as the president shared this afternoon, and it has spent<a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/us-news/doge-ends-nearly-1b-in-federal-education-contracts-to-nix-waste-and-dei/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> $881 million</a> on ineffective or purely progressive initiatives — including a mind-boggling $1.5 million just to “observe mailing and clerical operations.” <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/us-news/doge-ends-nearly-1b-in-federal-education-contracts-to-nix-waste-and-dei/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$268 billion a year</a> disappears into this bottomless pit, yet reading and math scores have either stagnated or dropped for the past five decades. The <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/us-news/heartbreaking-test-score-shows-us-children-falling-behind-on-reading-math-and-some-gop-members-are-blaming-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest data</a> from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows eighth-grade reading scores at historic lows, with nearly one-third of students unable to demonstrate basic literacy. The same trends appear in math. Meanwhile, taxpayer spending continues its relentless climb — now exceeding $18,000 per public school student per year—while private schools achieve superior results at half the cost.
The money, of course, never reaches the students. Instead, it vanishes into an expanding black hole of consultants, bureaucrats, and initiatives designed to push political agendas rather than academic excellence. Social–Emotional Learning programs turn classrooms into “gender affirming care” sessions. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives send teachers on racial reeducation retreats instead of training them to teach reading. Federal grants reward states that adopt Critical Race Theory under innocent-sounding names like “culturally responsive teaching.” In Oregon, taxpayer dollars fund “Equitable Math” programs that argue showing your work is an act of white supremacy.
But here’s the secret the teachers unions and their political friends don’t want you to know: We never needed a federal Department of Education to teach kids. We simply need to go back to basics and return education to the states. Structured phonics-based reading instruction. Math that prioritizes logic and computation over activism. History grounded in facts rather than ideology. And the data bears this out: private schools and homeschools, selected by the parents, outperform public schools across the board. Private school students outscore their public peers by an average of 20 points in reading, while homeschoolers surpass public school kids by 15–25 percentile points in virtually every subject. They do it at a fraction of the cost, with some homeschooling families spending as little as $700 per year.
So how will American students be impacted by the historic shutdown of the DOE? They will escape ideological indoctrination and regain the liberty they need to actually learn. The Treasury Department can handle fund disbursement. The Justice Department can oversee Title VI legal matters. Special education funding can be transferred to the Department of Health &amp; Human Services — an agency that actually understands disabilities. There is no function the DOE performs that couldn’t be more efficiently handled by other existing departments or, better yet, by state and local governments accountable to parents.
Critics will continue to claim President Trump is abandoning children, that he’s gutting education. But they will never explain why, after decades of DOE oversight, so many American kids still can’t read. They will never explain why taxpayer money meant for students instead funds activist bureaucrats and political unions. They will never explain to us where or why $268 billion disappears every single year. And they certainly won’t explain why they’re so terrified of letting parents make the choices that are best for their children.
This shutdown is not a crisis. It is long-overdue justice for America’s students.
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Marissa Streit is CEO of Prager University and Host of Real Talk.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Conservative media group PragerU released an <a href="https://x.com/prageru/status/1848922785172586969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already-viral</a> short documentary on Wednesday digging into the repercussions of policies and attitudes promoted by far-Left activist group Black Lives Matter.
Notably, the film, &#8220;<a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/their-lives-mattered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Their Lives Mattered: The Forgotten Victims of Crime in America</a>,&#8221; is presented by a former BLM activist, Xaviaer DuRousseau.
In &#8220;Their Lives Mattered,&#8221; DuRousseau speaks to the families of innocent children who were slain in inner cities, crime experts, and activists to understand the heartbreaking cost of BLM-supported policies.
&#8220;I was a Black Lives Matter activist,&#8221; DuRousseau says in the opening of the film, as shown in the teaser clip, below. &#8220;I was initially drawn to BLM because the media convinced me that thousands of black people were being shot and killed by racist white police officers.&#8221;
&#8220;The &#8216;fiery but mostly peaceful&#8217; protests made me rethink my perspective,&#8221; DuRousseau continues, referring to a CNN description of a destructive BLM protest. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t make sense to me why black rioters would loot and destroy their own communities in the name of racial justice, and why the media only cared about the loss of black life when the perpetrator was white.&#8221;
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Happy Gregg, a woman who lost her four-year-old son MJ to apparent gang violence in Chicago, told DuRousseau that not a single person has been prosecuted for the killing.
&#8220;When my son was murdered, I thought there would be outrage, and that justice was going to be swift,&#8221; Gregg said. &#8220;But I realized, there&#8217;s no outrage; I&#8217;m gonna have to be that outrage, I&#8217;m gonna have to be that voice for my baby.&#8221;
&#8220;No one even knows that a four-year-old was murdered, because there&#8217;s a lot of people murdered. Like, &#8216;get in line&#8217; is almost the tone of it, here,&#8221; the mother said. &#8220;Through that, I realized that a lot of children had been murdered. And I had no idea.&#8221;
The same weekend MJ was killed, seven other children were also killed in Chicago. There was no city-wide, let alone nationwide, protest, like the media helped drum up for the death of George Floyd.
DuRousseau also spoke to a man named Nathan Wallace, who lost his seven-year-old daughter Natalia to gang violence in Chicago. One man speaking alongside Wallace following the crime, posed, &#8220;If black lives don&#8217;t matter to us, how the hell is it supposed to matter to anybody else?&#8221;
Others in the documentary, including Manhattan Institute senior fellow Rafael Mangual and STAND founder Bishop E.W. Jackson, help to shed light on crime statistics often ignored in the media and the policies and activism behind increased crime.
WATCH:
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🎥 WATCH NOW 🎥
Ex-BLM activist <a href="https://twitter.com/XAVIAERD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@XAVIAERD</a> exposes how innocent kids become victims of violent crime, de-policing, and lenient district attorneys.
Do our leaders care that inner-city children are being killed?
Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheirLivesMattered?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheirLivesMattered</a> NOW on PragerU: <a href="https://t.co/qhVfrxvyo9">https://t.co/qhVfrxvyo9</a>
— PragerU (@prageru) <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1848922785172586969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/their-lives-mattered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You can view the full mini-doc, here.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-analysis-corporate-america-has-donated-82-billion-to-blm-related-causes-so-far" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Analysis: Corporate America Has Donated $82 Billion To BLM-Related Causes So Far</a>

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Conservative media organization <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prageru" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PragerU</a> was kicked off of the Google Play store on Friday shortly after it released its documentary &#8220;<a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/dear-infidels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dear Infidels: A Warning to America,</a>&#8221; but the Big Tech company said the suspension was a mistake.
Google notified PragerU that it had violated its “hate speech policy,” according to a screenshot shared by the conservative non-profit, and the app was booted from Android users&#8217; mobile store, The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/prageru-booted-from-google-s-play-store-for-violating-hate-speech-policy/ar-BB1nQz64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The Big Tech giant also told PragerU that its app went under a review, which found &#8220;content or speech asserting that a protected group is inhuman, inferior or worthy of being hated.”
Hours later, however, Google said that the app had been reinstated &#8220;after further re-review,&#8221; and a Google spokesman told <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/3033442/google-lifts-suspension-on-conservative-content-app-initiated-in-error/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a> that the suspension was made in error.
“In an email from Google, they said our recently removed app is now available ‘after further re-review,'&#8221; PragerU <a href="https://x.com/prageru/status/1799216136346833402" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on X. “Thank you to all of our amazing supporters who helped publicize this issue to force Google to reverse their earlier decision to remove our app from the store entirely.”
The new documentary that PragerU suspected was the reason for Google&#8217;s suspension of its app &#8220;features first-hand accounts from those who escaped Islamic rule and have come to warn America.&#8221;
&#8220;Radical Islam poses a significant threat to our freedom,&#8221; the documentary description states. &#8220;The rise of anti-American rhetoric and violence in cities and universities is a direct result of the indoctrination led by those perpetrating a religious war against the West.&#8221;
PragerU, which was started by conservative writer and radio show host Dennis Prager, has been targeted by Google and YouTube in the past. The organization has sued the Big Tech platforms &#8220;for restricting over 200 videos, including videos on the Ten Commandments, which continue to be restricted by YouTube today,&#8221; PragerU said.
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PragerU <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/186684/prager-university-loses-first-amendment-censorship-appeal-against-big-tech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost</a> its 2017 First Amendment lawsuit against Google after the conservative organization argued that YouTube was favoring Left-wing channels over PragerU&#8217;s channel.

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In a new documentary by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/prageru" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PragerU</a>, young adults who de-transitioned from radical sex-change treatments they received as minors discuss what they describe as the false promises and ultimately &#8220;tragic&#8221; consequences of so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221; To promote the film, PragerU purchased a &#8220;takeover&#8221; ad on X as part of a $1 million marketing campaign on Thursday.
&#8220;DETRANS: The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care&#8221; is a 21-minute documentary that focuses on two people who express deep regret for taking hormones and undergoing surgeries to reject their biological sex.
&#8220;There are so many young people who are going through very similar things that I did and are still being told that transitioning will save them,&#8221; Daisy Strongin says. &#8220;And it&#8217;s just not true. My story is tragic in some ways, but it&#8217;s very redemptive in many ways.&#8221;
Strongin&#8217;s story began when she was only a minor, battling severe depression and struggling with her self-worth. That&#8217;s when she turned to the internet, seeking answers and guidance in addressing her feelings of hopelessness.
She said after consuming gender transformation videos on her favorite websites like YouTube and Tumblr, she became &#8220;very, very interested in having a male persona.&#8221;
&#8220;The more time I spent online, the more it felt like real life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And the more real it felt, which eventually led to me just totally transitioning.&#8221;
Strongin said she eventually changed her identity and began visiting a behavioral mental health clinic. After six days, she said the staff told her parents, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t validate him, then this is just gonna get worse.&#8221;
&#8220;When parents of trans-identified kids are referred to specialized gender clinics, they&#8217;re often told that they&#8217;re going to get comprehensive, multidisciplinary mental health assessments,&#8221; Leor Sapir, a transgenderism expert and fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says in the film. &#8220;We know that that&#8217;s not true in practice. These kids were put on a fast track to medical transition.&#8221;
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Another such case featured in the documentary is that of Abel Garcia, who says that while browsing through YouTube in middle school one day, a video depicting a male transitioning to a female &#8220;planted a seed of doubt&#8221; in him that put him on the path to his own &#8220;transition.&#8221;
&#8220;I just wanted an answer to be given to me on who I was,&#8221; Garcia says. &#8220;And I went to see a therapist, and I had only asked, &#8216;I think I might be trans, I don&#8217;t know – I want to know.'&#8221;
Garcia says the therapist immediately told him during his first appointment that he was a &#8220;transgender woman.&#8221;
Conservative Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who represents clients suing health care providers for performing &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgery on minors, suggests that the spike in media depictions and social media depictions of transgenderism have led to the increase in minors transitioning.
&#8220;It&#8217;s even reached the mainstream advertising world,&#8221; says Dhillon. &#8220;And I think this is all coming to a head on what this really means for our society.&#8221;
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PragerU officials appeared to have countered the advertising world on Thursday after the organization <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/prageru-buys-takeover-ad-x-part-1m-campaign-promote-polarizing-detrans-rcna123351">purchased</a> a &#8220;takeover&#8221; ad on X with its $1 million marketing campaign to promote the documentary.
Craig Strazzeri, chief marketing officer for PragerU, told the press that after watching the film, the organization hopes the audience would understand how &#8220;major regret&#8221; comes with young people who transition.
&#8220;We decided to pursue an X takeover because it&#8217;s a great opportunity for us to reach a massive audience on the dangers of gender affirming care given that X is one of the least censored social media platforms, thanks to Elon Musk,&#8221; Strazzeri said in a statement to NBC News. &#8220;This will give millions of people the opportunity to hear important stories from detransitioners themselves, many of whom have been censored and even ostracized because their lived experiences do not affirm the mainstream media&#8217;s narrative.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.prageru.com/detrans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;DETRANS: The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care&#8221;</a> is available to stream for free on the PragerU website.

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PragerU Documentary ‘DETRANS: The Dangers Of Gender-Affirming Care’ Takes Over X

PragerU Documentary 'DETRANS: The Dangers Of Gender-Affirming Care' Takes Over X

Harmeet Dhillon

Media

Prager University

Transgender

“How do we make good people?”
Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, posits that this is the most important question a society can ask itself and that our society spends far too little time asking it.
While many people spend plenty of time pursuing academic or athletic achievements, or proving their worth at work, very few people spend much time at all actively contemplating or improving their character. Most people generally assume by default that they’re good.
“It’s a very interesting riddle, isn’t it?” Prager notes. “Most everyone thinks they’re a good person, and yet, there’s a fair amount of evil out there.”
Prager argues that many people are able to paper over their moral shortcomings because, “We don’t assess our goodness by our behavior. We assess our goodness by our intentions,” and, as the old saying goes, good intentions often pave the road to hell.
Virtue is hard-won and often in short supply precisely because people don’t prioritize it, according to Prager. While intent is insufficient, the first step to being a good person is aiming to be a good person, because, as Prager puts it, “You become what you want to be.”
Prager outlines a handful of key qualities that he believes are especially necessary to become a good person: Honesty, courage, kindness, gratitude, responsibility, morality, self-awareness.
Barring exceptional circumstances (such as hiding another person from someone trying to kill them) it is generally a very bad thing to lie. And, once you start lying, it rarely stops at a singular lie – if you lie to your spouse about having an affair, for example, you’ll often have to lie about where you were and who you were with, and then if those alibis are questioned you’ll create more lies or try to get other people in your social circle to lie for you until the entire situation spirals out of control into an ever more complicated web of deceit.
Being honest with other people is a virtue, but so is the ability to be honest with yourself – to admit when you’ve made mistakes and to be self-aware enough to acknowledge your own failings, to improve your shortcomings, and avoid or resist what tempts you.
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Courage is also another lynchpin virtue, as being able to recognize right from wrong isn’t very useful if you aren’t willing to do what’s right. Doing the right thing can often be difficult or painful, but confronting challenging circumstances and making the hard, but right choice is foundational to being a good person.
Prager also highlights <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hurdles-to-happiness-prageru-masters-program-episode-7-now-available-on-dailywire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gratitude</a> as a keystone of happiness as well as goodness. 
“No ingrate is kind,” Prager says. “Ingratitude is a guarantor of meanness, of anger, of bitterness, of lashing out.”
On that note, Prager says that one of the quickest measures of another’s person is how they treat perfect strangers, particularly people they want nothing from who they outrank in some broad social hierarchy, say a waiter or a menial laborer at their place of work. If they take a moment to acknowledge the basic humanity of all people, recognizing them by name, thanking them, or even simply smiling at them, it is generally a very good sign, and if it isn’t something you do regularly, it’s a good habit to start working on.
“Goodness is cultivated on a daily basis with little behaviors, but little behaviors add up.” 
On a broader scale, good people take responsibility for their actions, support their families and communities, and are morally centered around proper values. While cultivating goodness requires a lifelong commitment and vigilant efforts, the payoff is that your world will be a warmer, brighter, and happier place.
“The biggest reward, probably, is that you bring good people into your life,” Prager says, which he describes as “the single greatest source of happiness.”
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'How To Be A Good Person': PragerU Master's Program Episode 9 Now Available On DailyWire+

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Dennis Prager

Readers Pass

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You Are The Architect Of Your Happiness

Books

Marriage

Psychology

Opponents of marriage, and even some married people, frequently say that marriage is “just a piece of paper.” But is this true? Does marriage have any real benefits or significance for men and women?
There are many important events in a person’s life and death: birth, Christian baptism, Jewish bar or bat mitzvahs, weddings, and funerals, among others. Is one of these major life events attended by more people than the next? Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, explains that if you look at the number of people at each event, more often than not, a wedding will be most attended.
There’s a reason for that.
“There is simply no event in your life that has the meaning and is so widely felt by others as your wedding because it&#8217;s deemed the most significant thing you will do, and even, perhaps, the happiest,” Prager says.
Prager explains that this talk, in which he makes the case for marriage, is the “saddest” one simply because in today’s day and age, with society continually degrading and diminishing the role and meaning of marriage, he has to give it. Decades ago, Prager says he wouldn’t have thought about giving this message because most people didn’t need it — they already knew.
In the United States today, roughly half of first marriages end in divorce, according to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/divorce/divorce-statistics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a>. As for second and third marriages, that fail rate is even higher, the outlet adds. This fact, Prager says, is what many unmarried people give as justification for their refusal to tie the knot. Others point to the severed marriages of their parents, a point Prager says holds no merit, posing the question of whether a person would quit driving if their parents got into a car accident. 
“Yes, a lot don&#8217;t work out, that is correct,” Prager admits. “I&#8217;ve never found that to be a compelling argument against the institution.” 
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One way to avoid that dreadful divorce rate is to marry right the first time. But, Prager says, divorce is sometimes merited and is never easy. Unlike Hollywood stars who “trade in their wives every few years,” most people go to great lengths to make their marriages work and can still come up empty. 
But the rewards for long-lasting marriages are great for both men and women. Prager points out a study by a professor at the University of Virginia which found that married men, on average, earn 20% more than unmarried men. It also found that married men are harder workers — typically working 400 hours more a year than unmarried men — and more strategic. 
“Marriage also transforms men’s social worlds; they spend less time with friends and more time with family; they also go to bars less and to church more,” Brad Wilcox, the author of the study, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/04/02/dont-be-a-bachelor-why-married-men-work-harder-and-smarter-and-make-more-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a 2015 Washington Post article. 
Marrying can also improve the health of a man. A Framingham Offspring study <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/marriage-and-mens-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that married men have a 46% lower rate of death from cardiovascular disease even after accounting for various risk factors, an astonishing statistic. A different study <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/marriage-and-mens-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that marriage has been linked to higher survival rates following cancer diagnoses, and another <a href="https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2017/february/why-married-people-are-healthy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> that married people have lower levels of stress. 
“[M]arried men have a lower risk of depression and a higher likelihood of satisfaction with life in retirement than their unmarried peers,” a 2019 Harvard Health article, cited by Prager, <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/marriage-and-mens-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Being married has also been linked to better cognitive function, a reduced risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, improved blood sugar levels, and better outcomes for hospitalized patients.”
Women, too, receive numerous benefits from marriage. Prager points to studies showing that married women have better physical and emotional health, resulting in lower levels of depression and suicide attempts than unmarried women — and even “cohabiting” women, according to <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/being-unmarried-makes-a-woman-a-higher-suicide-risk-6678947.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one study</a>. They are also not as likely to be physically or emotionally abused, Prager says. 
Beyond the physical, mental, and social benefits of marriage, being devoted to a spouse also forces men and women to do something extremely important: grow up. This is actually one of the contributors to the declining marriage rate in the country, because a lot of people today don’t want to grow up, according to Prager. He says it’s easy for him to spot a married man or woman by how they conduct themselves. 
“When I meet a man who is married, he radiates a maturity and even a masculinity that I rarely find in men who are single for a long period of time,” Prager explains. “With women, likewise, I identify a maturity and a wisdom and a stability that I don&#8217;t see in women who have never been married.”
Prager says that Americans should strive to be a member of this institution, not only because it contributes to society in beneficial ways, but also because it’s good for the couple. Don’t wait too long to get married, either, Prager advises. Instead, get serious about marriage when a “wonderful person” comes along, instead of using the often-cited excuse of waiting for “financial stability.” 
Ultimately, Prager says, a person will become better because of marriage. While the act of marriage is not an easy task, Prager asserts that “everything worthwhile is difficult.” And, contrary to objectors, marriage is much more than “just a piece of paper.”
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The differences between men and women are as multifaceted as they are obvious. 
For decades intellectuals and those on the political Left have argued that there are no meaningful distinctions between men and women beyond the physical &#8211; and even the physical differences are denied by gender ideology, which has produced such bizarre linguistic contortions as “birthing person” or “person with a penis” and reduced the categories of “woman” and “man” into arbitrary, subjective sludge.
At the same time, an increasing body of <a href="https://stanmed.stanford.edu/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scientific research</a> supports what sensible people have known since time immemorial – men and women are complementary opposites with different ways of thinking, doing, and being.
“Of course, men and women have a tremendous amount in common,” Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, clarified. Research indicates that men and women have the same average intelligence, for example, and members of both sexes are still moral agents with the capacity to do good or evil, although the set of temptations each sex will face differs.
But similarly robust data indicates that men and women differ drastically in median <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161011-do-men-and-women-really-have-different-personalities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">temperament</a>, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19883140/#:~:text=Men%20showed%20stronger%20Realistic%20(d,d%20%3D%20%2D0.33)%20interests." target="_blank" rel="noopener">interests</a>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26913183?seq=5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">political persuasion</a>, attitudes towards <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-parenting-gender-gap_b_11430888">child rearing</a>, <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">relationships</a>, and <a href="https://scitechdaily.com/what-factors-matter-in-sexual-attraction-for-men-and-women-of-different-ages/#:~:text=And%20while%20both%20sexes%20prefer,can%27t%20risk%20choosing%20poorly.">sexuality</a>, and even susceptibility to different kinds of <a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2011/08/mental-illness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mental illness</a>.
Unlike the ironclad differences in body structure and genitalia, the temperamental differences between the sexes do exist on a spectrum &#8211; while some personality traits may be more common in women or more common in men, there will be some men who are more feminine, and some women who are more masculine. But the fact that there are exceptions to the rule does not disprove the general pattern: while there is considerable overlap between the sexes along dimensions, along others the typical differences are so great that exceptions are few and far between.
“We have to make generalizations but they have to be intelligent generalizations,” Prager says. “And you always have to offer examples to make your point about the generalization.”
One article Prager <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cites</a> notes that women are more likely to suffer from mood disorders such as anxiety or depression, while men are more likely to have autism or ADHD. That roughly tracks with personality research, which suggests that women are more sensitive to negative emotion than men, while men are on average <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more impulsive</a> and less sensitive to social cues than women. While there is no shortage of depressed men or autistic women, women are <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">twice as likely</a> to be diagnosed with depression and men are more than<a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 4 times</a> as likely to be autistic.
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Another point Prager notes is that male and female infants play differently and have sex-based preferences in activities and toys. These differences have been validated cross-culturally and across species – infant <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">monkeys</a> prefer either wheeled toys or plush, doll-like toys depending on whether or not they’re male or female. As a whole, males are consistently more interested in motion and action while females are more interested in faces and people.
Prager also recounts an anecdote where lifelong liberal Larry Summers — former Clinton Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University — <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bought</a> his young daughter toy trucks in an attempt to be “gender neutral “ as a parent, only for her to immediately treat the toys like dolls, dubbing the larger one “daddy truck” and the smaller one “baby truck.”
Men are also much more physically aggressive than women and more likely to resort to violence. They tend to be more competitive and less likely to take disputes personally — Prager notes that male athletes have been found to be more likely to shake hands, pat each other on the back or otherwise physically reconcile after a high-level competition than female athletes are.
Men also tend to be more rough-and-tumble in their friendships. “When men really like each other, they insult each other,” Prager notes. By contrast, female friendships tend to be built on emotional support and intimacy — what a man might think of as playful teasing would in that context be a devastating slight.
Women, by contrast, tend to be more innately nurturing. They largely avoid physical confrontation and are highly concerned with the health of relationships and the needs of infants and other vulnerable members of the group.
“Women are optimized for taking care of a child,” Prager says, noting that this observation should be uncontroversial whether you believe they evolved to be this way or were created for that purpose. The fact of the difference and the obviousness of its importance is incontrovertible — human beings could not exist if someone wasn’t focused on caring for the next generation.
Prager also notes that this difference extends beyond the immediate household and applies to views of society at large.
“Women overwhelmingly are more likely to vote for the parties that want to nurture those in society who are, for example, poorer. They vote for the nurturing party,” Prager said. 
Perhaps most frustratingly, men and women have different approaches to sex and romance, and often radically misunderstand one another.
“Women are aroused by their minds, men are aroused by their eyes,” Prager argues.
Men are predominantly aroused by visual cues of attraction: facial symmetry, waist-hip ratios, and other cues for fertility and health. They also have a greater interest in casual sex and are allured by the prospect of sexual variety — they are overwhelmingly more likely to consume pornography, patronize prostitutes, or pursue casual hookups.
“It&#8217;s not an excuse,” Prager says, arguing that those tendencies can be extremely destructive and have to be reined in, “but the fact that reality poses a problem is not a reason for a mature person to dismiss the reality.”
By contrast, while women are attracted to good-looking men, looks alone are rarely enough to keep their attention for long. Prager provides a list of other factors women consider when assessing a man that are at least as important as his looks, if not more so, including (but not limited to): “Voice, height, brains, personality, money, success, fame, power, charm, sense of humor, confidence.”
Put more <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scientifically</a>: “While both sexes prefer a physically attractive mate or potential partner, males have been shown to report stronger such preferences for attractiveness … Females are more selective about other characteristics because their time for reproduction is more limited so they can’t risk choosing poorly.”
Prager also noted that the feminist push for “empowered” women to adopt male sexual norms and pursue casual sex was actively making women <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/relationship-corner/2018/01/female-vs-male-friendships-10-key-differences#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">miserable</a>. Denying the various differences causes both sexes to dismiss or disregard those differences, hurting themselves and each other.
“The better men and women understand each other, the more they&#8217;ll accept each other&#8217;s differences,” Prager says, “and that can serve as a very big help in their relationship.”
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About The Daily Wire The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Visit dailywire.com for more information.

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‘Differences Between Men And Women’: PragerU Master’s Program Episode 8 Now Available On DailyWire+

'Differences Between Men And Women': PragerU Master’s Program Episode 8 Now Available On DailyWire+

Leftists

Sexuality

Women

Join <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/coming-soon-episode-7-hurdles-to-happiness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dennis Prager</a> as he explores common obstacles to the pursuit of happiness that many people face.
Prager, the founder of PragerU, has a long-running interest in the subject of happiness — in 1998 he <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Serious-Problem-Nature-Repair/dp/0060987359/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=241639596133&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9013191&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=12728985553921840812&amp;hvtargid=kwd-142068242&amp;hydadcr=22591_10356101&amp;keywords=happiness+is+a+serious+problem&amp;qid=1689173971&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> ‘Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual’, and he carries over many of the same insights into his lecture on the subject.
Firstly, Prager argues that happiness is not merely an arbitrary emotional state: it is something that must be actively pursued, the same way a person would pursue a career, an education, a relationship, or any other value in life. Happiness has prerequisites, and foremost amongst them is gratitude.
“You can’t be happy if you’re not grateful,” Prager says. Being able to appreciate the things that you have instead of obsessing over the things that you don’t is immensely important — if you don’t appreciate the blessings you have in life, how are they supposed to make you happy?
Unfortunately, many people construct their entire identities around the idea that they are a victim, that they are oppressed, that they have been wronged and denied the goods and opportunities they deserve — victimhood has acquired an air of prestige and moral superiority.
“If you think of yourself as a victim, by definition you are not a grateful human being,” Prager notes, adding that the sense of victimhood actively inhibits happiness because to the extent that you allow yourself to enjoy what you have, you undercut your vision of yourself as a victim.
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Prager also points out that many of the loudest ‘victims’ in our culture are some of the most privileged people to walk the earth — full-time students at prestigious universities, who enjoy all the luxuries of modern life and have been given years to pursue their chosen interests without needing to enter the workforce.
Prager also argues that even for people who have suffered horrific abuses, a victimhood-centered mindset is still stultifying and unproductive.
“You choose whether or not you see yourself as a victim,” Prager says, noting that for most people throughout most of human history, life was extraordinarily hard. Even so, in the face of war and famine, and plague, many people have worked hard and cherished whatever fortune came their way, living happy and meaningful lives. “You are not necessarily objectively a victim, you have chosen to regard yourself as such.”
Prager says that people should temper their expectations, because if you expect something to happen you don&#8217;t appreciate it when it does – you become indignant when it doesn’t. For instance, the people who most appreciate the blessings of good health are those who have suffered from a serious illness: people who have been healthy all their lives and consider it a given. In virtually every home in America the lights turn on and our toilets flush at the mere press of a button; that is only true because of the hard work of countless scientists, engineers, electricians, plumbers, and an entire societies’ infrastructure, yet most of us go years with without spending even a second appreciating those small miracles.
“I expect virtually nothing, so that everything I get I am grateful for,” Prager said.
Prager also advised against comparing yourself to other people or getting too attached to certain visions of how the world should be. While being inspired to better yourself is a positive thing, life will rarely unfold exactly as you envisioned it, and people’s lives are rarely as rosy as our superficial judgments of them may be. It’s better to appreciate your successes rather than obsess over your failures or denigrate your accomplishments against those of other people.
“Looking around thinking how lucky you are, that’s the mother of gratitude, and gratitude is the mother of happiness.
“I am not simply convinced that the ideas in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/coming-soon-episode-7-hurdles-to-happiness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this episode</a> will change people&#8217;s lives, I know they will,” Prager says. “I can tell you what works, you choose whether to use it.”
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‘Hurdles To Happiness’: PragerU Master’s Program Episode 7 Now Available On DailyWire+

The second volume of Prager University’s Master&#8217;s Program is coming to DailyWire+.
The series, hosted by Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, offers a deep dive into several of the most pressing issues facing the United States, exploring central facets of the human condition.
The newest episode, ‘<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/episode-6-part-2-differences-between-the-left-and-the-right-part-ii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Differences Between the Left and The Right, Part II</a>’, builds off of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/episode-5-differences-between-the-left-and-the-right-part-i" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Volume 1 finale</a> by discussing the rival positions that dominate our national discourse and the massive philosophical gap between them.
“You often hear ‘that which unites us is greater than that which divides us,’ which just isn’t true,” Prager said. “It might have been true 100 years ago, but it is not true today.”
While some people hold a mixture of conservative and progressive viewpoints, Prager argues that in our increasingly polarized society, more and more people have been drawn into incompatible ideological camps, which have coalesced around respect for tradition, individualism and local autonomy on the one hand and relativism, collectivism and centralized control on the other.
“Not every conservative holds every conservative position. Not everyone on the Left holds every left-wing position,” Prager notes, “but it applies to the great majority of people.”
<h2>The Place Of Religion And God In Society</h2>
Prager argues that the Left wants religion to be a totally private matter with no influence in the public square, but the Right wants a religious society that promotes shared values — specifically Judeo-Christian values — while having a secular government.
“That which society’s values rely upon is religion,” George Washington said in his farewell address.
Prager notes that while not all the Founding Fathers were Christians, they all acknowledged the importance of the biblical tradition to American culture.
“The role of the Bible in American life has no peer,” Prager said. “It was the central text, it was how you taught children values.”
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<h2>The Worth Of The Human Fetus</h2>
Prager argues that on the contentious issue of abortion, the central issue is not even one of policy, but of basic reality — the Left and the Right cannot agree on whether or not a fetus in the womb is objectively a human being or if its personhood is arbitrary.
“On the Left… the human fetus has no intrinsic worth,” Prager says. “The mother determines 100% whether it is infinitely precious or worth nothing.”
Prager notes that if a gunman shoots an expecting mother and she loses the baby as a result, he can be charged with homicide, but if an abortionist kills the child at the mother’s request, it is often treated with all the moral significance of having a pimple popped — the fetus is only a person if the mother wants it to be.
Prager says that even by secular moral standards, that position makes no sense. The conservative position that the fetus is a human being and valuable in and of itself is an objective and consistent moral standard; while we may quibble over when in development a fetus becomes a person, whether or not terminating a pregnancy is murder is not a question that is subjective to individual whim.
<h2>American Exceptionalism</h2>
Prager says that the Left regards the idea that the United States is in some way special as misguided chauvinism at best, while the Right holds it as historical fact. For much of its history, the United States was the land of opportunity, and people around the world flocked to it to pursue their dreams and enjoy the freedom and prosperity that were unrivaled around the world.
“American exceptionalism is not a bragging right,” Prager said. “It is either true or not true.”
Furthermore, Prager argues that American Exceptionalism is not guaranteed, and that recently, the United States has become less free and less special — America’s national character was hard-won and must be safeguarded.
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<h2>The Greatest Threat To The World</h2>
Prager notes that the Left often describes climate change as an ‘existential threat’ to human civilization, and one that justifies extreme measures to combat it. By contrast, while those on the Right generally accept that the planet is getting warmer, they don’t view it as a catastrophe, are skeptical of efforts to completely reshape the world economy, and view ‘green’ alternatives such as solar and wind as unreliable compared to fossil fuels or even nuclear power. The latter is especially telling because nuclear energy emits virtually no greenhouse gasses yet is typically overlooked or even scorned by environmental activists.
By contrast, the Right generally regards human evil as the supreme and ever present threat to mankind, and are skeptical of concentrating power in the hands of a ruling elite. They fear that those elites are corruptible and will leap from crisis to crisis in order to justify their continual use and abuse of power to the detriment of everyone around them.
<h2>Race</h2>
The Left believes that a person’s racial identity is of paramount importance, while conservatives believe that  individual character is paramount and that a person’s ancestry tells you nothing important about who they are.
“You know literally nothing about a person if you know their color,” Prager says, “so how can it be significant?”
In addition, Prager also analyzes differing attitudes towards guns, art, diversity, culture, morality, American history, justice, nationalism, and immigration, where the Left and Right hold similarly irreconcilable positions.
Episode 7, ‘Hurdles To Happiness’, which will be released on July 12th, explores the common obstacles people face to leading meaningful and fulfilling lives.
Episode 8, ‘Differences Between Men and Women’, which comes out on July 19th, explores the distinctions between the sexes and their complementary nature.
Episode 9, ‘The Case For Marriage’, slated for release on July 26th, argues for the necessity of traditional marriage for society and the individual.
The Volume Finale, ‘How To Be A Good Person’, examines the path to being an upstanding human being and living a virtuous life, and will become available on August 2nd.
The series will update on Wednesdays and can be viewed in its entirety on <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;mid=g&amp;cid=dailywire&amp;xid=0&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwqZSlBhBwEiwAfoZUIPE8j1hQA4V1G8m7tPubDsn3p0kKx1beCQgz16yjjavExTBgZj4XRBoCvPAQAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire+</a>.
In 2020, The Daily Wire joined forces with Dennis Prager to expand the reach of PragerU’s culture-changing content. Going beyond five-minute videos, Prager is now distilling his wisdom and experience into a series that will strengthen minds and improve lives.
About The Daily Wire The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Visit dailywire.com for more information.
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'It Is Either True Or Not True': PragerU Master's Program Returns With New Episodes On DailyWire+

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