From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome to Free Expression with me, Jerry Baker, from the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

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Free expression, we believe, of course, is essential to a healthy democracy, and it's very much under threat these days.

So each week on this podcast, we aim to contribute by having a wide-ranging, candid conversation with leading practitioners and commentators in the worlds of politics, business, technology, academia, the arts and culture and others,

exploring in depth the themes, people and topics shaping our world.

Pleased to say my guest this week is Dennis Prager.

Dennis is a leading conservative commentator, writer and radio talk show host,

with the widely followed Dennis Prager show,

which has been nationally syndicated across America for more than two decades. That

has began life in political advocacy helping persecuted Soviet jury during the Cold War. He's been a

passionate proponent of freedom from authoritarian repression ever since. President Ronald Reagan

appointed him to the U.S. Commission to the review of the Helsinki Accords between the West and

the Soviet bloc. And President George H.W. Bush picked him as a member of the Holocaust Memorial Council. Throughout his long career,

he's been an outspoken critic of the march of progressive ideology through America's cultural

and political institutions and others, and a defender of the religious, moral, political values

on which America was founded. He founded himself Prager You, which seeks, through short instructive videos to convey conservative ideas and values to a wider audience. He's written numerous books on politics, culture, and life lessons, the latest of which is the Ten Commandments, still the best moral code. Dennis Prager joins me now. Dennis, thank you very much indeed for being here. I wish my mother were alive to have heard that. That's the old lie about I wish my parents were around. My mother would have loved it and my father would have believed it. Exactly, yes. Thank you very much indeed. I want to get into all of these topics which you discuss, which we on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal address too. But let's start if we may, since you have been very much at the forefront of this contention in American politics

and culture for 50 years at least, and it's intensified in the last 20 years, people talk a lot

about polarization and they talk a lot about the mutual hostility that exists now between Americans.

And when you listen to it, when you listen to people on either side of

this debate, you hear the way they talk about what matters to them and you hear the way they

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