#129 - James Lindsay
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with James Lindsay about America’s identity crisis, the launch of Revolution, and why false ideologies rush in when a nation forgets who it is. They discuss Nazism, Marxism, eugenics, Darwinism, the French Revolution, Charlie Kirk’s question about what it means to be an American, rising antisemitism on the left and right, the Sinai covenant, and why recovering America’s founding story may be essential to keeping the republic. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.⭐ PRE-ORDER TODAY:Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World📕: https://a.co/d/0ir3Nlap
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:01.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:01.9 | Welcome to the week. |
| 0:03.4 | It falls to me to welcome you to the week itself. |
| 0:06.3 | I don't know how I got that job, but I got it. |
| 0:08.5 | And I'm going to go with it. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to Monday. |
| 0:11.8 | Tomorrow, this is a big week for me. |
| 0:14.1 | That's almost an understatement because tomorrow, the book, Revolution, the birth of the greatest nation in the history of the world, comes out officially tomorrow. |
| 0:27.4 | So I'm going to be doing a ton of media and all kinds of stuff, and then I'm traveling like a lunatic. |
| 0:34.0 | I'll be in Houston preaching at a church on Sunday. |
| 0:40.6 | I'll be in California at Greg Lorry's church the following Sunday and on and on it goes just more than anything I've ever done around |
| 0:48.1 | a book. But I think it's because there's something so central to what I write about in this book. It's not about |
| 0:55.0 | me or the fact that I wrote the book, but the ideas of it are what is America? What is our story? |
| 1:00.6 | How did we come into being? What are these values? Do you know these values? Do you know where |
| 1:05.6 | our rights come from? Have you thought about that? Kind of important. So I will push you to take that seriously in this our 250th supercentennial year. |
| 1:18.6 | Please read the book. |
| 1:21.6 | I don't care if you steal it. |
| 1:22.6 | Why not steal it? |
| 1:23.6 | Steal it from Barnes & Noble or from wherever fine books are sold and read it and share it. Steal it from Barnes & Noble or from, you know, wherever fine books are sold and read it and share it because we have to know this story. |
| 1:33.6 | And I thought today, Hop on the train It's fun to talk again. |
| 1:47.0 | And I thought today it would be fun to talk to somebody who kind of does know what America is and what our values are and where they come from and what Liberty is. |
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