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5-Minute Videos are the flagship viral product that put PragerU on the map. They take the best ideas from the best minds and distill them into five focused minutes. Listen to hundreds of 5-Minute Videos to get reliable, truthful information about politics, economics, history, and America. These educational, entertaining videos, which are Judeo-Christian at their core and promote the values of liberty, economic freedom, and limited government, have been changing the hearts and minds of millions of young people for over a decade.
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Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
Why Do People Become Islamic Extremists?
What makes someone become an Islamic extremist? Is it poverty? Lack of education? A search for meaning? Haroon Ullah, a senior State Department advisor and a foreign policy professor at Georgetown University, shares what he discovered while living in Pakistan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 6min
Do Big Unions Buy Politicians?
Who poses the biggest threat to America's economy by striking deals with crooked politicians? Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big Unions? Daniel DiSalvo, political science professor at the City College of New York, gives the answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 6min
The Speech Every 2015 College Grad Needs to Hear
There were thousands of college commencement speeches around the country this year for the Class of 2015. But there was one missing -- one very truthful, funny and witty speech that graduates should've heard, but didn't. Well, here it is, spoken by George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the Washington Post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
Should America be the World's Policeman?
Should America be the world's policeman? Does the world even need a policeman? Or would humanity be better off if America weren't the dominant military superpower? Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and foreign affairs expert Bret Stephens weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
The Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College
Right now, there's a well-organized, below-the-radar effort to render the Electoral College effectively useless. It's called the National Popular Vote, and it would turn our presidential elections into a majority-rule affair. Would this be good or bad? Author, lawyer, and Electoral College expert Tara Ross explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
Do You Understand the Electoral College?
Do you understand what the Electoral College is? Or how it works? Or why America uses it to elect its presidents instead of just using a straight popular vote? Author, lawyer and Electoral College expert Tara Ross does, and she explains that to understand the Electoral College is to understand American democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 4min
Happiness Equation: U = I - R
Is there an equation that can accurately predict how happy you will be? There is. Can you control the inputs of that equation, and thus your own happiness? You can. How? Dennis Prager, author of the best-selling book, "Happiness is a Serious Problem", explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 6min
Coolidge: The Best President You Don't Know
Americans today place enormous pressure on presidents to "do something"...anything, to get the economy going. There was one president, though, Calvin Coolidge, who did "nothing" -- other than shrink government. What happened? America's economy boomed. Is there a lesson to be learned? Award-winning author, historian, and biographer Amity Shlaes thinks so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
Don't Judge Blacks Differently
Does race trump truth? In a confrontation between police and perpetrators, what is more important? Facts or skin color? When protests morph into riots, do we excuse bad behavior based on race? If we do, how are we ever going to end racism? Chloe Valdary, a student at the University of New Orleans, confronts these critical questions and offers a compelling answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
Why You Should Love Fossil Fuel
Every year on Earth Day we learn how bad humanity's economic development is for the health of the planet. But maybe this is the wrong message. Maybe we should instead reflect on how human progress, even use of fossil fuels, has made our environment cleaner and healthier. Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
