Relearning the Forgotten History of America's Founding & What Happens If We Don't | Eric Metaxas
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Eric Metaxas about his new book "Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World" and why the American Revolution created an unprecedented system of liberty, self-government, and constitutional rights rooted in faith and personal responsibility; the forgotten heroism of America's Founding Fathers including George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Nathan Hale, and Henry Knox; why patriotism, Christianity, and understanding American history are essential ahead of America's 250th anniversary; how the left, Marxism, and anti-American narratives have reshaped education and culture; and why preserving freedom, the Constitution, and the American experiment requires civic engagement, sacrifice, and moral courage, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I did see stuff that I had never known before. And at the heart of it is, it's, it's, I mean, a culture war is sort of putting it mildly. But the British elites were as cynical and decadent as I could ever imagine. And the American elites, who were the men behind the revolution revolution were just the opposite. Most of them were |
| 0:23.4 | profoundly virtuous people. People dedicated to virtue talking about virtue. It's like John Adams |
| 0:29.4 | talking about how, you know, after the Boston massacre, we need to defend the rights of the British |
| 0:34.8 | soldiers. This needs to be a, I know what the mob wants. The mob |
| 0:38.6 | wants mob justice. They should be hanging, you know, from a jibbit on the Boston Common today. |
| 0:44.1 | We're going to do this the right way. We're going to trust God. And they were very explicitly |
| 0:49.0 | Christian. I mean, I was stunned, actually, by the faith of most of these folks, very explicit in their |
| 0:53.7 | faith, that |
| 0:54.7 | we want to honor God and how we do this, because they had this classic Old Testament view, |
| 0:59.6 | covenantal view, you know, this puritanical view that comes from the Old Testament that if we honor God, |
| 1:05.1 | he will honor us. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is host of Socrates in the city, as well as the author of the new book out this week. |
| 1:25.9 | Revolution, the birth of the greatest nation in the history of the world. |
| 1:28.7 | A guy who has not been on the Rubin report in quite some time. Eric Metaxus, what happened, man? It's been years. Was something wrong |
| 1:33.5 | with your internet connection? I don't know what happened here. I have no idea, but very happy to |
| 1:38.7 | see you. Thanks for having me. It's good to see again. Yeah, it has been too long. I, uh, you know, I got the copy of the book |
| 1:46.9 | over here and it's, it's basically the theme of what I've been trying to push for this last year as |
| 1:54.2 | we roll into this 250th anniversary that we should be proud of this thing, damn proud of this thing, and it's great. |
| 2:02.0 | And these flawed people who created it were probably a hell of a lot better than us. |
| 2:07.0 | What do you think of all that? |
| 2:08.8 | Well, as expected, I heartily agree. We should be, you know, not only should we be bursting |
| 2:15.7 | with pride, almost literally, to get to be Americans, |
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