Timeless Wisdom - American Exceptionalism: Myth or Reality?

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

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On Today’s Show:

American Exceptionalism is a term that is tossed around quite a bit. Is just a fantasy of the Right or does it really exist? And, if it exists, what does it mean and why is it important? Should we care whether or not America is exceptional?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
0:04.2	Here thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,
0:08.7	and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles.
0:11.4	Go to Dennis Prager.com.
0:20.1	Thank you very, very much. It's a particular honor to have a colleague and appear say such kind things about you.
0:27.6	I have tremendous admiration for your group.
0:32.1	Whenever I hear Americanism, in any event, I know that people understand that America is not a geographic entity.
0:38.3	With no insult intended to any other country, I'm a world traveler, I love the world, I've been to 93 countries.
0:45.3	I'm going in a week to Zambia and Botswana and Zimbabwe to give mosquito nets out to orphan kids there.
0:56.7	I have a deep commitment to a sense of the world.
1:00.8	But this country is unique.
1:05.2	Americanism exists.
1:07.4	Belgiumism doesn't.
1:09.4	Germanism doesn't. Zimbabweism doesn't. Germanism doesn't.
1:11.5	Zimbabweism doesn't.
1:13.7	This is unique.
1:15.2	It's an idea.
1:17.0	It's, in my opinion, the greatest value system ever devised.
1:21.5	My next book makes that case,
1:24.0	and its applicability in every society.
1:26.9	So you touch the deepest core of my beliefs.
1:32.4	I've been asked to speak on American exceptionalism.
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