Beste Listening To America Podcasts (2024)

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#1626 America’s Fascination with Conspiracy Theories 50:49

3d ago50:49

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Clay talks with guest host David Horton about America’s obsession with conspiracy theories, from the notion that the moon landing in 1969 was faked on a Hollywood sound stage to the view that 9-11 was an inside job designed to secure more oil for the United States and justify a war against Islam. What is the psychology of this strange phenomenon? D…

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#1625 Do We Have an American Narrative? 59:01

10d ago59:01

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In an interview recorded on October 29, 2024, Clay interviews the eminent classicist, Edward Watts of the University of California, San Diego, on the collapse of the American narrative. The old narrative that began when Columbus bumped into the New World and then moved through the colonial period, the American Revolution, the Westering movement, th…

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#1624 Thomas Jefferson on American Elections 51:33

17d ago51:33

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Guest host David Horton welcomes the Third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, to the program to talk about what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they designed the system of American elections. Why did the Founders give two senators to each state? How was the controversy between big and little states resolved, and how has it infl…

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#1623 Reflections on the Nation of Texas 55:35

24d ago55:35

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Clay discusses his foray into Texas on Phase Three of the great John Steinbeck Travels with Charley 2024 tour. How is Texas different from other states? Can anyone really eat at the Big Texas Steak Ranch and survive? Is the Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo as worthy as Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska? Why are Texans nicer IN Texas than when they drive t…

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#1622 Clay's John Steinbeck America Tour Resumes 59:39

1M ago59:39

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Guest host Russ Eagle interviews Clay about the third phase of his 2024 Steinbeck "Travels with Charley" tour. Russ was in North Carolina, Clay, at an RV park in eastern New Mexico on the legendary Route 66. They discussed Steinbeck's purpose for his 1960 truck camper Odyssey. Did he achieve his goal? Why wasn't Steinbeck interested in America's Na…

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#1621 The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon 50:33

1M ago50:33

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Clay Jenkinson is joined by sports historian Kurt Kemper of Dakota State University and sports fan David Nicandri of Washington State. Our subject: the Caitlin Clark phenomenon. Clark of the University of Iowa now holds the NCAA collegiate basketball record for most career points in either the men’s or women’s league. What is next for her? How does…

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#1620 The Hollowing Out of Rural America 59:13

1M ago59:13

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Clay speaks with Richard Rhodes, eminent author of numerous books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb. The subject: industrial agriculture and the death of rural America. Other countries pass legislation protecting small family farms, but the U.S. government throws its weight behind agribusiness and industrial gigantism. Rhodes believes we nee…

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#1619 A Conversation With Lindsay Chervinsky 1:02:11

2M ago1:02:11

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Clay interviews author and frequent guest Lindsay Chervinsky about her splendid new book on the John Adams administration: Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic. In the second of two conversations about the book, Clay asks Lindsay to justify some of her unscrupulous attacks on the life and character of Thomas…

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#1618 Are We Still a Republic? 1:00:14

2M ago1:00:14

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Clay talks with eminent historian Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of over a dozen books. Today’s question? Were we ever a republic, and are we now a republic? What did the Founding Fathers mean when they created the American republic? How is a republic different from a democracy? Was Jefferson’s small-r republican idealism realistic…

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#1617 Clay’s Steinbeck Travels With Charley Tour: Phase Two 59:14

2M ago59:14

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Guest host Russ Eagle interviews Clay about Phase II of his 2024 Travels with Charley tour. What has Clay learned from retracing Steinbeck's famous 1960 cross-country journey? This time from Bismarck to Seattle, then Monterey, Salinas, and Route 66. Clay describes a few mishaps that have occurred. Plus, a visit to the Sylvia Beach literary hotel in…

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#1616 The Family that Summited Everest 57:06

2M ago57:06

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Clay Jenkinson’s interview with adventurer Alan Mallory about his family’s ascent of Mount Everest. That’s 29,032 feet, a third of it in the Death Zone, where your body actually starts to die from lack of oxygen and other factors. Mallory walks us through the process—getting to Nepal, the cost, the outfitters, the journey to base camp, where you st…

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#1615 Understanding Lindsay Chervinsky’s New Book 56:25

3M ago56:25

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Clay interviews regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about her new book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic. It’s a wonderfully readable study of the one-term presidency of John Adams. Lindsay sheds new light on some of the most interesting moments of the Adams presidency and examines the first peaceful tr…

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#1614 Native Americans and the Assimilation Movement 55:39

3M ago55:39

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Clay Jenkinson converses with historian Larry Skogen about his new book, To Educate American Indians. Skogen’s book examines US policy of assimilating Native Americans into European-derived white America, including the nightmare of the Indian Boarding Schools, personified by Carlisle Indian School’s superintendent Richard Pratt’s racist mission sta…

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#1613 Republican Like Me: A Conversation with Ken Stern 54:34

3M ago54:34

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Clay interviews former NPR CEO Ken Stern, author of a provocative 2018 book, Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right. Weary of living in a liberal cosmos that found the other side “deplorable,” Ken traveled America to experience rituals that many associate with the political Right. He hunted a pig in Texas, v…

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#1612 Lindsay Chervinsky’s New Book 53:29

3M ago53:29

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Clay talks with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about her just-published book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic. Lindsay explores how, in the nation's early days, John Adams and others pioneered a framework for the American presidency that we now take for granted. One example: The U.S. Constitution was largely si…

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#1611 John Adams’ Enemies 57:04

4M ago57:04

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Historian Lindsay Chervinsky talks with Clay about the enemies of the second president of the United States, John Adams. Somewhat tongue in cheek, Lindsay believes that Jefferson was one of those enemies because he was a disloyal vice president to Adams. Others included Alexander Hamilton, who considered himself the shadow president. Hamilton also …

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#1610 America at 250 With Beau Breslin 54:05

4M ago54:05

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Skidmore College political scientist Beau Breslin joins Clay to discuss how America might prepare for its 250th birthday on July 4, 2026. Topics include the collapse of civility and mutual respect and the breakdown of respect for American institutions, from the Supreme Court and the FBI to the media and the church. They discuss the possibility of a…

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#1609 Joseph Ellis Returns 55:39

4M ago55:39

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Eminent historian Joseph Ellis returns to Listening to America to assess the country’s current political climate. Ellis, now in retirement in the mountains of Vermont, is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographical treatments of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, and others. He believes that the election of November …

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#1608 Ten Things about the First Amendment 57:46

4M ago57:46

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Clay welcomes regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky for a conversation about the First Amendment, ratified with nine others on December 15, 1792. The First Amendment lists four protected American rights: 1) Freedom of Religion, 2) Freedom of Speech and the Press, 3) Freedom of Assembly, 4) Freedom to Petition the government for redress of grievances…

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#1607 The Underground Railroad 50:31

5M ago50:31

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Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander of Norfolk State University in Virginia joins Clay Jenkinson to discuss unresolved race issues in the United States. Dr. Newby-Alexander is the author of an important book, Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad. During the 18th and 19th centuries more than 100,000 enslaved people found their way to freedom in…

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#1606 Gun Violence in America: A Conversation with Richard Rhodes 59:05

5M ago59:05

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Richard Rhodes, noted historian and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, returns to Listening to America for another discussion reflecting on America as it approaches its 250th birthday. In this poignant conversation, Mr. Rhodes and Clay discuss gun violence in America. Are humans inherently violent? What is the …

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#1605 America at 250: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin 57:00

5M ago57:00

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Clay interviews the eminent historian Richard Slotkin about America as it approaches its 250th birthday. Richard Slotkin is an emeritus professor of history at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He is the author of many books, including two groundbreaking studies of violence on the American frontier. His latest book, A Great Disorder: National Myt…

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#1604 Ten Things about Gouverneur Morris 55:45

5M ago55:45

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Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the penman of the U.S. Constitution, Gouverneur Morris of New York. Morris and Thomas Jefferson knew each other in France but couldn’t really get along. Morris was Alexander Hamilton’s best friend and after the 1804 duel that ended Hamilton’s life, Morris agreed to look a…

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#1603 Satire and the American Experience 58:11

5M ago58:11

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Guest host David Horton of Radford University and Clay Jenkinson discuss the origins and varieties of satire. With its roots in the ancient world and particularly Rome, satire exists in two broad categories: genial, bemused satire, identified with the Roman poet Horace; and biting, severe, take-no-prisoners satire best represented by another Roman …

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#1602 Highways, Byways, and Travels With Charley: A Road Report from Vermont 1:00:20

6M ago1:00:20

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Guest Host David Horton of Radford University in Virginia asks Clay for a progress report on his adventure retracing John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley” journey. Clay was in Middlebury, Vermont, at the time of the interview, still aglow from his interview with Steinbeck biographer Jay Parini of Middlebury College. Topics include the clunky joys…

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#1626 America’s Fascination with Conspiracy Theories 50:49

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#1625 Do We Have an American Narrative? 59:01

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#1624 Thomas Jefferson on American Elections 51:33

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#1623 Reflections on the Nation of Texas 55:35

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#1622 Clay's John Steinbeck America Tour Resumes 59:39

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#1621 The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon 50:33

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#1620 The Hollowing Out of Rural America 59:13

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#1619 A Conversation With Lindsay Chervinsky 1:02:11

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#1618 Are We Still a Republic? 1:00:14

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#1617 Clay’s Steinbeck Travels With Charley Tour: Phase Two 59:14

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#1616 The Family that Summited Everest 57:06

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#1615 Understanding Lindsay Chervinsky’s New Book 56:25

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#1614 Native Americans and the Assimilation Movement 55:39

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#1613 Republican Like Me: A Conversation with Ken Stern 54:34

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#1612 Lindsay Chervinsky’s New Book 53:29

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#1611 John Adams’ Enemies 57:04

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#1610 America at 250 With Beau Breslin 54:05

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#1609 Joseph Ellis Returns 55:39

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#1608 Ten Things about the First Amendment 57:46

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#1607 The Underground Railroad 50:31

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#1606 Gun Violence in America: A Conversation with Richard Rhodes 59:05

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#1605 America at 250: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin 57:00

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#1604 Ten Things about Gouverneur Morris 55:45

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#1603 Satire and the American Experience 58:11

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#1602 Highways, Byways, and Travels With Charley: A Road Report from Vermont 1:00:20

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