All of my life I have found one Shakespearean constant objectionable: his view that the people are an ignorant rabble, incapable of genuine civic engagement.
Ranking American Presidents
Town Hall Meetings
#1225 Liberty's First Crisis
And So the Great Adventure Begins
Roosevelt and Pinnacles National Park
You Must Go Home Again
Performing as Thomas Jefferson
Above the Tide Pools
Freedom of the Press
#1224 Friends of the Hour
Travels with Karli, and Fred, and Roger
Praise God for Vittory
The Steinbeck Journal
I Love What I Get to Do
Nixon and the Logan Act
Rules of the Presidency
#1223 The Logan Act
Jefferson's First Retirement
#1222 First Retirement (Part Two)
We return to our “Jefferson 101” series with a continued discussion about Jefferson’s period of retirement after his term as Secretary of State ended in 1793 and he returned to Monticello. Subjects include Jefferson’s reasons for leaving Washington, the Jay treaty, slavery and a revealing letter Jefferson wrote to his daughter Maria.