Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

The Silencing Conservative Voices

14 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this excerpt from a conversation, Dennis Prager reflects on personal loss—the death of his son Charlie and his own accident on November 12, 2024—and uses those experiences to argue that individuals must confront the problem of tragedy and evil before it strikes them personally. He recounts a caller to his radio show who, after her brother was murdered, changed her stance on capital punishment, illustrating how personal tragedy can reshape moral views. Prager emphasizes that everyone will inevitably face suffering—illness, alienation, hatred—and that proactive engagement with these realities is essential. The dialogue concludes with a contrast between the current "age of feeling" and an "age of reason," suggesting a cultural shift away from rational analysis toward emotional reaction.

losing Charlie and then the diminishment of your voice, I know people have said, and I have said it too, why? Why, God? Why would you? Why?
Well, I have an answer to that, and I wrote it decades before Charlie and decades before my accident of November 12th, 2024. I wrote it then. If you, you have to deal with the problem of tragedy and evil before it affects you. I'll give you a great example. A woman once called my radio show and she began as follows, Dennis, I have always disagreed with you about capital punishment. I was against it and you were adamantly for it, but I've changed. And I said, gee, why is that? And she said, because my brother was murdered. And of course, I offered her condolences. But that's not all I offered. I offered a critique. And I said, so when other people's brothers were murdered, That, that didn't register in your thinking about God. Uh, yeah, it took a tragedy in your life. What people need to do is to confront these things before it befalls them. Almost everybody will have tragedy in their lives. Alienated children, cancer. It's endless. And of course, hatred. So, or I should say, yeah.
Go ahead. This is, we're in the That's the age of feeling instead of the age of reason.