What makes America exceptional?

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Both our Constitution and religious beliefs have been under assault for decades by many who stand opposed to American values and virtues. Because it’s these two elements that are at the heart of American exceptionalism. Victor Davis Hanson expounds accurately on American exceptionalism - what made it and what will destroy it...

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0:00.0	May the fourth be with you, my friends.
0:26.3	Welcome to the Dean's List.
0:27.5	We are happy to have you on board.
0:30.3	And today is not only is it Star Wars Day, but it's also an anniversary.
0:39.1	Happy birthday to the Freedom Riders.
0:42.1	May 4th, 1961.
0:44.7	Should we just visit the Freedom Riders right here at the top?
0:48.6	Let's just go to history class right here right now.
0:53.2	Ladies and gentlemen, find yourself a seat in the front row.
0:57.1	Front row.
0:58.4	Front row.
1:00.2	History class awaits because it was on May 4th, 1961, that the Grand 13, 13 men and women, black and white, boarded a bus in Washington, D.C., which, by the way, yesterday, yesterday was the anniversary of the incorporation of Washington being incorporated as a city. Yeah, it was,
1:31.1	it was May 3rd, 1802. Did, did you know that? You did not know that? Don't you feel
1:38.3	better now that knowing that? Yes, it was yesterday. D.C. became a, yeah.
1:45.9	It was a swamp.
1:46.9	It was swamp land.
1:49.8	That's why they, that's what we still call it a swamp today.
1:54.3	Washington chose this land. I mean, it was, you know, there was some probably some back room negotiating happening, you know, because it was a piece of Virginia, piece of Maryland that was sectioned off to be its own, its own district, separate from any of the other states, Washington, D.C.
2:14.2	The D.C. District of Columbia, of course, it's an honor, named in honor of Christopher
2:20.6	Columbus, who is castigated to this very day, but not here. We do not castigate Christopher
2:28.8	Columbus. We tell the truth of Columbus and history class.
2:39.4	And it's, it's, his name is, is given to the district here.
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