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#1565 Ten Things about Writing a Book 50:24

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the agony and ecstasy of writing a book. Among the topics: Do you do all the research before you start to write or just begin and research as you go along? How do you pace yourself and not burn out? How do you know if the book is any good? What do you do to power through the…

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#1564 The New Look of the Jefferson Hour: Listening to America 1:00:31

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This week, guest host David Horton of Radford University returns to engage Clay Jenkinson about the plans and purposes of Listening to America. Why the name change on the highly successful Jefferson Hour? What will the new program title enable Clay to explore over the next decade? Did the New Enlightenment Radio Network change the name because Jeff…

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#1563 The Formation of Thomas Jefferson 1:03:30

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This week, guest host David Horton of Radford University questions Mr. Jefferson about his formation, about the path he took to national greatness. What were the particular influences of Jefferson's father Peter, a self-made man of the overseer class, and Jefferson's mother Jane Randolph, who belonged to one of the most socially and politically pro…

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#1562 Ten Things: Counterfactual History 51:26

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This week on Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson, Clay's conversation with his regular guest Professor Lindsay Chervinsky about Ten Historical Counterfactuals. Historians are warned never to indulge in what if history, but we cannot help it, it just such fun. What if the British had won the Revolutionary War? What if Alexander Hamilton had bec…

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#1561 The Titan and the Titanic 53:13

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s interview with David Nicandri in the aftermath of the disaster of the submersible Titan in the north Atlantic. Nicandi reflects on the spirit of exploration, the risks taken by those who would go where no man has gone before. Were the five men who died when the submersible imploded just billionaire tourists or adventurer…

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#1560 The Oppenheimer Film as Cinema 55:57

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with his cinephile friend Niles Schwartz of Minneapolis about the summer blockbuster film Oppenheimer. People are already saying it is one of the great films in recent decades, a certain classic like The Sound of Music, Dr. Strangelove, the Deer Hunter, and Citizen Kane. Clay asked Niles to forget about hist…

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#1559 The Plight of a Secular Society 58:25

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This week, Clay Jenkinson interviews Bruce Ledewitz, the author of The Universe is On Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life. Since Nietzsche's famous pronouncement that "God is dead," Euro-American culture has become profoundly secular--and it shows, according to Ledewitz. Without the great tradition of Christian culture, America has de…

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#1558 How Accurate Was the Oppenheimer Movie? 58:26

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with Listening to America’s Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri after viewing the blockbuster film Oppenheimer. How close did the film stay to the historical record? Was the characterization of Oppenheimer both accurate and compelling? Why does Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey, Jr.) play so large a role i…

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#1557 The Death of Great Salt Lake 51:24

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This week, Clay Jenkinson's interview with the Thoreau of Great Salt Lake, Scott Baxter, about the possibility that the lake will die well before it dries up entirely. Baxter has spent decades monitoring the lake as its levels diminish thanks to over-allocation and more recently the prolonged drought in the American West. With his future son-in-law…

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#1556 John Quincy Adams Part II 51:31

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This week, the second of a two part conversation between Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinksy on the life and achievements of John Quincy Adams. The little known sixth President is so interesting that Clay and Lindsay decided to do a second Ten Things program about him. Did he have a sense of humor? Could he relax? What kind of First Lady was Loui…

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#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better 56:48

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This week, the first of a two part conversation between Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky on the life and achievement of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States. Adams was perhaps the greatest Secretary of State in American history. He had a rough one-term presidency, but then he won a seat in the House of Representatives th…

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#1554 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization 51:24

3M ago51:24

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This week, Clay Jenkinson talks with David Horton of Radford University in Virginia about the artificial intelligence revolution. Where are we with AI and where are we headed? What is the future of privacy? Is it possible to regulate AI? Will the machines terminate us as a slovenly, irrational, and wasteful species? Will we live forever or at least…

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#1553 Shackleton’s Ship the Endurance Found! 49:33

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Clay Jenkinson interviews Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri about the discovery of Ernest Shackleton’s ship the Endurance at the bottom of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. The Endurance sank in November 1915 after being trapped and crushed by polar ice. A rescue archaeologist named Mensun Bound led two multimillion dollar expeditions to find…

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#1552 Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic 55:51

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This week, Clay Jenkinson and regular Listening to America correspondent Lindsay Chervinsky talk about moments when the first president, George Washington, may have been tempted to drop the mic - if such a technology had existed in his time. We discuss Washington's response to the Newburgh Conspiracy, Washington showing up at the Continental Congre…

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#1551 On the Set of the Oppenheimer Film 57:39

3M ago57:39

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This week, Clay Jenkinson interviews the actor John Gowans, who portrays Dr. Ward Evans of Northwestern University in the upcoming Robert Oppenheimer film. Gowans tells fascinating stories about being on the set of the film, particularly the 1954 security hearing in Washington, DC., when Oppenheimer was treated like a man of potential treason by th…

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#1550 The Death of Glen Canyon Dam 51:31

4M ago51:31

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This week, Clay Jenkinson speaks with the director of the Glen Canyon Institute Eric Balken for our initiative Water and the West: The West Runs Dry. Balken believes Glen Canyon Dam should be re-engineered to pass the water of the Colorado River, including its immense silt load, around Glen Canyon Dam. Given the over-allocation of the Colorado Rive…

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#1549 Welcome to Listening to America 1:03:11

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This week, Clay Jenkinson inaugurates the first episode of Listening to America with WHRV's Barbara Hamm Lee in the studios of WHRV in Norfolk, Virginia. How will Listening to America be different from the Thomas Jefferson Hour? Clay explains the mission of Listening to America--to go out and find the authentic voices of America as we approach the …

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#1548 Ten Things about Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address 59:42

4M ago59:42

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This week, Clay Jenkinson discusses Jefferson’s first inaugural address with regular guest Lindsay Chervinsky. The speech, inaudibly delivered on March 4, 1801, is regarded as one of the top five in American history. After a hotly contested election, Jefferson was able to say, “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” Part utopian vision fo…

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#1547 Jefferson, John Marshall, and Judicial Review 54:35

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This week, Clay Jenkinson interviews frequent guest Beau Breslin of Skidmore College about the most famous decision in Supreme Court history. One William Marbury sued the US Government for not installing him into a post to which he had been appointed by outgoing President John Adams. Marshall could not find a way to get Marbury his job, but he did …

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#1546 The Founders and the Cutting Room Floor 53:09

5M ago53:09

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Professor Beau Breslin of Skidmore College returns to the Thomas Jefferson Hour to talk about important passages that were edited out of key American documents of the Founding Era, including the famous anti-slavery passage of the Declaration of Independence. How would America have been different if Jefferson’s attack on the slave trade had been inc…

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#1545 Live from Radford University 51:24

5M ago51:24

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This week's episode of the Thomas Jefferson Hour was recorded live at Radford University in Radford, Virginia in February 2023. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about Clay's cultural tours and retreats at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Check out our merch. You can find Clay's b…

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#1544 Ten Things about Woodrow Wilson 50:19

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. Best known for his Fourteen Points and the League of Nations, Wilson was one of the most pronounced idealists among American presidents. He said he wanted to make the world safe for democracy. Meanwhile, at home, he sup…

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#1543 Are We Rome? 58:24

5M ago58:24

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with Dr. Edward Watts, professor of history at the University of California San Diego. Watts, the author of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny, is a historian of the classical world or more than 2000 years ago, but his work inevitably asks the question, is the American republic in the kind of chaos …

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#1542 The Quest for the Wooly Mammoth 55:01

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with Dr. Grant Zazula, a Yukon paleontologist. Nothing seemed to have fascinated Thomas Jefferson more than the mammoth and the mastodon, to the point that his detractors ridiculed his obsession. Jefferson convinced Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to dig up mastodon bones at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky. Grant…

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#1541 Ten Things About Dolley Madison 1:00:07

6M ago1:00:07

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This week, Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky discuss the first great First Lady in American history, Dolley Madison. Topics include her attitudes towards race and slavery, her sixteen years as the principal social arbiter and hostess in the new capital in Washington, DC, her relationship with Jefferson and her husband's amazing friendship and c…

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#1565 Ten Things about Writing a Book 50:24

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#1564 The New Look of the Jefferson Hour: Listening to America 1:00:31

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#1563 The Formation of Thomas Jefferson 1:03:30

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#1562 Ten Things: Counterfactual History 51:26

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#1561 The Titan and the Titanic 53:13

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#1560 The Oppenheimer Film as Cinema 55:57

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#1559 The Plight of a Secular Society 58:25

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#1558 How Accurate Was the Oppenheimer Movie? 58:26

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#1557 The Death of Great Salt Lake 51:24

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#1556 John Quincy Adams Part II 51:31

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#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better 56:48

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#1554 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization 51:24

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#1553 Shackleton’s Ship the Endurance Found! 49:33

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#1552 Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic 55:51

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#1551 On the Set of the Oppenheimer Film 57:39

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#1550 The Death of Glen Canyon Dam 51:31

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#1549 Welcome to Listening to America 1:03:11

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#1548 Ten Things about Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address 59:42

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#1547 Jefferson, John Marshall, and Judicial Review 54:35

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#1546 The Founders and the Cutting Room Floor 53:09

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#1545 Live from Radford University 51:24

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#1544 Ten Things about Woodrow Wilson 50:19

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#1543 Are We Rome? 58:24

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#1542 The Quest for the Wooly Mammoth 55:01

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#1541 Ten Things About Dolley Madison 1:00:07

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