“Jefferson was a gentleman. Mountains weren’t climbed in his time.”
This week, we speak with Clay about his recent mountain climbing experience and answer listener questions.
Further Reading
- Odyssey Tours
- Odyssey Tours: To Live Deliberately
- Odyssey Tours: Shakespeare in the Wilderness
- Odyssey Tours: Steinbeck's California
Not with a Bang, But a Whimper
The Jefferson Watch
Clay writes:
I’ve wanted to climb Mt. Whitney for twenty years or more, but it has never happened, because life kept getting in the way, and I didn’t ever want to do it alone, and not that many people are willing to entertain the thought of climbing straight up for eleven miles.
Read this week's Jefferson Watch essay, "Not with a Bang, But a Whimper."
What Would Jefferson Do?
“The national government should only intervene in such affairs if it is constitutionally permitted to intervene.”
Tune in to your local public radio or join the 1776 Club to hear this episode of What Would Thomas Jefferson Do?
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.
This week, Clay Jenkinson interviews frequent guest Beau Breslin of Skidmore College about the most famous decision in Supreme Court history.
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.
This week's episode of the Thomas Jefferson Hour was recorded live at Radford University in Radford, Virginia in February 2023.