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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
Does Free Speech Offend You?
Should offensive speech be banned? Where should we, as a society, draw the line where permitted speech is on one side, and forbidden speech is on the other? Should we even have that line? And should free speech be limited by things like trigger warnings and punishments for microaggressions? Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, answers these questions and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
Are You on the Wrong Side of History?
Are you on the wrong side or the right side of history? Is there even a "wrong side" or a "right side"? What do those terms mean and why do politicians and pundits use them? Nationally syndicated columnist and best-selling author Jonah Goldberg explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
The Most Important Question About Abortion
Is abortion right, or is it wrong? It's the big question that's lost in a societal debate that's mostly focused on legality. But, really, whether it's right or wrong is the most important question about abortion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 6min
Was the Civil War About Slavery?
What caused the Civil War? Did the North care about abolishing slavery? Did the South secede because of slavery? Or was it about something else entirely...perhaps states' rights? Colonel Ty Seidule, Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point, settles the debate. For more information on the Civil War, check out The West Point History of the Civil War, an interactive e-book that brings the Civil War to life in a way that's never been done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 6min
The Iran Nuclear Deal
Is the nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran a good or bad deal? Would it be harder or easier for Iran to develop nuclear weapons? Would it make Iran and its terror proxies stronger or weaker? Should the U.S. Congress support or defeat the deal? Dennis Prager answers these questions and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 6min
Why I Left Greenpeace
Patrick Moore explains why he helped to create Greenpeace, and why he decided to leave it. What began as a mission to improve the environment for the sake of humanity became a political movement in which humanity became the villain and hard science a non-issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 6min
Trees Are the Answer
Everybody loves trees, so why are they so controversial? Patrick Moore untangles the knotty issue of "deforestation" and shows how, from a purely environmental perspective, it is possible and desirable to grow more trees and use more wood products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
The Truth about CO2
Global Warming activists will tell you that CO2 is bad and dangerous. The EPA has even classified it as a pollutant. But is it? Patrick Moore provides some surprising facts about the benefits of CO2 that you won't hear in the current debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 6min
Are GMOs Good or Bad?
Are GMOs really the dangerous experimental foods that activists claim? Patrick Moore cuts through the hype and gives you the facts: how GMOs improve our lives, and how they can save millions of people in the developing world from hunger and disease -- if we only let them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 7, 2019 • 5min
What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change
Since time immemorial, our climate has been and will always be changing. Patrick Moore explains why "climate change," far from being a recent human-caused disaster, is, for a myriad of complex reasons, a fact of life on Planet Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


