Timeless Wisdom - Learn History with Dennis Prager - Part 8
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 41 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, all commercial free for Pragertopia members.
On Today’s Show:
Dennis talks to John Ferling, professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia. His new book is Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation.
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| 0:35.2 | Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, |
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| 0:48.4 | Hi, everybody, Dennis Prager here. |
| 0:55.6 | We've been getting terrific feedback concerning these periodic hours that I devote to history, |
| 1:02.7 | because you know my belief. |
| 1:04.2 | If you know history, you can begin to understand the present, |
| 1:09.2 | or to put it in the negative. |
| 1:10.7 | If you don't know history, you can't understand the present. |
| 1:14.1 | And I'll be a little aggressive here. |
| 1:17.6 | I don't understand not wanting to know history. |
| 1:21.1 | I don't get it. |
| 1:22.2 | I understand where people like me are not thrilled with mathematics, for example. |
| 1:28.2 | Although I did have a professor of mathematics from Berkeley on the show, |
| 1:32.3 | because I want to fall in love with math too. |
| 1:35.1 | Why not? If it's out there, I'd like to love it. |
| 1:37.1 | But history should be self-reconding. |
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