Michael Wilkerson: Why America Matters
Socrates in the City
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🗓️ 2 June 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Wallstreet businessman turned author Michael Wilkerson sits down with host Eric Metaxas to answer the question of if and why America matters. After his business in Africa was paused during the 2020 Covid shutdowns, Wilkerson’s eyes were opened to the partisan, cultural, and ideological divides in America, and he wondered if the nation could still be good, or even great. Taking an in-depth look at history — from the settlers to Abraham Lincoln and beyond — Wilkerson argues that a new century requires a new vision of American greatness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:01.0 | Thank you, Eric. |
| 0:02.0 | Great to be with you. |
| 0:04.0 | You do a lot, you write a lot, stormwall.org is it? |
| 0:10.0 | Stormwall.com. |
| 0:11.0 | My website. |
| 0:12.0 | But I want to talk to you today. |
| 0:15.0 | You wrote a book. |
| 0:16.0 | We have a copy here called Why America Matters, the case for a new exceptionalism. |
| 0:22.6 | I read the book, Why America Matters, and I was mightily impressed at your ability to tell what's essentially the history of the United States in a way that helps us see |
| 0:42.3 | not just why America matters and why America is unavoidably exceptional, but how that should help us process the present moment. |
| 0:55.0 | So I wanna talk to you, start at the beginning. |
| 0:58.0 | What led you to take on this monumental project, |
| 1:03.0 | this, why did you write why America matters? |
| 1:08.0 | Anger, I think, and I say that facetiously, but I think over the last few years, there was a |
| 1:17.3 | growing proverbial fire in the bones. |
| 1:19.3 | There was this recognition that we as a country, as a nation, as a people had gone so far away from what I think America |
| 1:31.3 | was about and should be about that I felt almost compelled to write it. It turned out to be, |
| 1:38.8 | as you pointed out, a much bigger, broader work than I had ever imagined. And I am not an author, journalist by |
| 1:46.7 | background. I spent most of my career in business and finance. I'd been on Wall Street for a |
| 1:51.4 | decade in the decade leading up to the lockdowns in pandemic 2020. I was running a company, |
| 1:58.3 | investing in businesses in Africa, mostly in food security, energy security. |
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