Your weekly conversation with our third president.
Talking out of Tights
Live at the Roper Theater in Norfolk, VA, on February 25, 2020.
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Repairing Jefferson’s America
A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship
Thomas Jefferson was the greatest idealist of the Founding Fathers of America. He believed that average citizens are up to the challenge of governing themselves. He envisioned a republic of well-educated, well-informed, engaged, and vigilant citizens.
Jefferson’s dream of a semi-utopian American republic has nearly been swallowed up by cynical partisanship, government gridlock, consumer materialism, and the corrosive power of money in American politics.
Jefferson believed in civility, majority rule, the primacy of science and reason, and harmony in all of our public and private relations.
Civil Discourse
Critical Thinking
Good Citizenship
Thomas Jefferson was a student of the Enlightenment, of human nature and of honorable behavior. He applied this to his personal life and to the national & global challenges he faced during the forming of the United States.
Clay Jenkinson, the nationally-acclaimed humanities scholar and award-winning first-person interpreter of Thomas Jefferson, portrays Jefferson on the program. Clay addresses listener questions with answers grounded in the writings and actions of Jefferson.
Our mission is to generate discourse between friends and family members which will grow into a national discourse about the topics essential to our country and citizens.
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.