Dennis Prager

Born

1948-08-02

Birthplace

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography

Dennis Prager is an American radio talk show host. He has been broadcasting on radio in Los Angeles since 1982. He has appeared on Fox and Friends, Red Eye, Hardball, Hannity, CBS Evening News, The Today Show and many others. Dennis has engaged in interfaith dialogue with Catholics at the Vatican, Muslims in the Persian Gulf, Hindus in India, and Protestants at Christian seminaries throughout America. For ten years, he conducted a weekly interfaith dialogue. Mr. Prager was a Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs, where he did graduate work at the Middle East and Russian Institutes. He has taught Russian and Jewish history at Brooklyn College; and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Delegation to the Vienna Review Conference on the Helsinki Accords. He holds an honorary doctorate of law from Pepperdine University. In 2011, Dennis co-founded with Allen Estrin, Prager University, an institution of higher learning on the Internet with a unique difference – all the courses are five minutes long. The courses cover the disciplines of Political Science, History, Philosophy/Religion, Economics and Psychology.