Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jul 27, 2026
Ask what inspired American government, and you’ll hear the usual answers: Greece, Rome, the Enlightenment. The Founders studied them all. But none of them fully explains why America rejected kings…
Videos · Economic Game Changers · Jul 22, 2026
Should the government give people jobs? In 1840s France, many thought so. Facing food shortages and rising unrest, France’s government created the “National Workshops” to employ thousands and…
Videos · Economic Game Changers · Jul 22, 2026
When prices skyrocket, everyone suffers—but does someone benefit? In this episode of Economic Game Changers, you’ll meet David Ricardo, a stockbroker-turned-economist who responded to a costly grain…
Videos · Economic Game Changers · Jul 22, 2026
Before the American Revolution, Great Britain powered a global empire through mercantilism—an economic system that enriched the crown at the expense of overseas colonies. But one Scottish thinker had…
Videos · Economic Game Changers · Jul 22, 2026
Is a revolution to end capitalism inevitable? In the mid 1800s, a philosopher named Karl Marx thought so. This episode of Economic Game Changers introduces teens to a radical thinker who used the…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jul 20, 2026
We think of identity politics as a modern idea, something that emerged from academia in recent decades. But it isn't new at all. It's one of the oldest ideas in history: the instinct to divide people…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jul 13, 2026
More and more young people today suffer from anxiety, depression, or loneliness. But it turns out this isn’t a new problem. Sixteen hundred years ago, a restless university student named Augustine…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jul 07, 2026
After six long, bloody years, the American fight for freedom was at a crossroads. To end the Revolutionary War and bring King George to the negotiating table, the rebels needed a knockout punch. They…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jun 29, 2026
Two revolutions reshaped the world in the late 18th century. The American Revolution gave birth to the most successful republic in history. The French Revolution gave birth to the guillotine. So what…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jun 22, 2026
The West is in a war for its survival, but it's not the war most people think. It’s an existential conflict, as Ben Shapiro describes it, between lions and scavengers. The scavengers have the…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jun 15, 2026
When we think of the American Revolution, we think of the North: Lexington and Concord, Washington crossing the Delaware, the winter at Valley Forge. But it was in the South—in the swamps and…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jun 08, 2026
One of the most important battles of the American Revolution… wasn’t a battle at all. In the winter of 1777, George Washington’s army teetered on the brink of collapse. But the General didn’t…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jun 01, 2026
The future of western civilization hangs in the balance. The struggle is between those who want to create and those who want to destroy, the Lions versus the Scavengers. Who are the Scavengers and…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · May 25, 2026
Empathy — the ability to understand and share the feelings of another — is a noble virtue. But empathy can also lead us astray. In fact, it can be fatal. Gad Saad, a scholar at the Declaration of…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · May 18, 2026
The West is in a war for its survival. That war is playing out both at a civilizational and personal level. Ben Shapiro sees this as a war between lions and scavengers. The lions want to defend…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · May 11, 2026
Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in Africa and the Middle East. Her life was steeped in danger and chaos. In contrast, young people in the West today are steeped in comfort and security. But ironically, they…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · May 04, 2026
In 1777, in a shocking turn of events, a professional British army surrendered to an American force at Saratoga, New York. The surrender dramatically changed the course of America’s war for…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Apr 27, 2026
In the winter of 1776, it looked like the battle for independence was doomed. The British army had chased Washington out of New York. To salvage victory from defeat, the American general had one last…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Apr 20, 2026
It was the “shot heard round the world”, the spark that officially set off the American War for Independence. But on that cold morning, neither the colonial militia nor their redcoat opponents were…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Apr 13, 2026
On August 6th, 1945, the world changed forever when the United States dropped an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. This new and terrible weapon led to the end of WWII and began the nuclear arms race…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Apr 06, 2026
We’ve been waging a “war” against poverty for half a century. Critics on the left and the right say we’re losing. Are they right? And if they are, what are the reasons? PragerU’s own Xaviaer…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Mar 30, 2026
Before George Washington crossed the Delaware, before Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, Patrick Henry lit the spark of rebellion. With nothing but his voice, he thundered the…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Mar 23, 2026
Look at the American Declaration of Independence and what’s the first thing you notice? The answer is probably the signature of John Hancock. But John Hancock’s real legacy isn’t how he signed—it’s…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Mar 16, 2026
The British held Boston. Washington needed cannons. Enter 25-year-old Henry Knox—a former bookseller who set out on an impossible winter mission to haul 60 tons of artillery 300 miles through snow,…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Mar 09, 2026
He was French by birth—but American by conviction. Wounded in battle, tireless in diplomacy, and fiercely loyal to George Washington, Lafayette became one of the Revolution’s most essential actors.…