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Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Timeless Wisdom - Learn History with Dennis Prager - Part 7

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

To get the ad-free version of this podcast, and to access the full library of lectures, talks, and shows, visit dennisprager.com.

On Today’s Show: 

Dennis talks to Christopher Clark, professor of modern European history at the University of Cambridge. His new book is The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914.

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0:48.9

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Dennis Prager show.

0:54.1

Periodically now, I feature what I call a history hour, because I think that it's the most important thing to know in terms of facts, in terms of understanding, in terms of understanding why we are, where we are, how could you know that if you don't know what

1:11.6

happened before we got here? And so I am enthralled by the subject for every possible reason,

1:19.4

and what I do is I feature a new work of history that I think is particularly significant,

1:26.4

and this one is about a subject that I have been mesmerized by my entire life.

1:34.4

I consider the answer, however, to be analogous to why did God invent the mosquito.

1:40.4

I have a series of questions that I know that there probably isn't an answer to.

1:46.7

So if anybody wrote a book, Why Mosquitoes are beneficial, I would be fascinated.

1:52.8

Likewise, why did World War I occur?

1:58.6

There are 25,000 books and articles on that subject.

2:04.8

There were probably 10 on why did World War II occur, because everybody knows why World

2:09.6

War II occurred, so it's not an issue.

2:12.1

World War I, though, which created World War I, which created Nazism, which created communism, which created

2:19.8

fascism, everything horrible that you could imagine, more or less derived from World War I.

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