Dennis Prager: Right and Wrong Are Not a Matter of Personal Opinion

by Dennis Prager

February 19, 2026

The Free Press

Ever since I was very young, I have been preoccupied with one issue: Why do people hurt other people? Why do people do evil?

I was born in 1948, only three years after the Holocaust. I'm a third-generation American. Yet, when I was a kid, from the earliest time I could think, the Holocaust consumed me. When I was about 10, I watched a program on television, and I saw an image of Adolf Hitler. I asked my father, "Who is that man?" He said, "He was Hitler, and he killed six million Jews."

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