The exchange has been edited for clarity and length. Prager answered questions from the Deseret News about his work and mission via email. It is among the most viewed conservative video sites in the world, clocking well more than 1 billion views a year, more than half by people under the age of 35. George, Rod Dreher, Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens, Carol Swain and Victor Davis Hanson.Īs Prager says, “My life’s mission has been to influence as many people as possible to adopt Judeo-Christian and American values.” As such, Prager U has become among the most effective and influential forces in spreading traditional values and founding American ideals in the world today. Presenters, who are not paid except occasionally for travel, have included conservative luminaries such as Robert C.

The content on PragerU, a registered nonprofit, speaks plainly to the hardest and most sensitive questions of the day, from gender ideology and racial politics, to climate change and the traditional family. The result was PragerU.Īlthough our current media environment incentives people to say whatever is popular, this platform, called PragerU, has taken another route. But at the suggestion of friend Allen Estrin, the producer of his radio show, Prager decided to start an online platform using 5-minute videos to reach a larger audience. That would be a satisfying stopping place for most people. Within 10 years, he was a fixture there, and in another decade, he was nationally syndicated and heard on nearly 400 stations. He began as a spokesman for the group Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute at the time, he was called a “Jewish Billy Graham.” Then Prager got his first radio job in 1982 at flagship station KABC in Los Angeles. Since 1970, Prager, 74, has been raising his voice - and not about easy topics. Conservative religious people are increasingly nervous about saying what they are thinking, especially in public.

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