Les meilleurs podcasts Listening To America (2025)

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#1676 American Presidents and the Press 58:59

3d ago58:59

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Clay and his popular guest, Lindsay Chervinsky, discuss the history of American presidents and the fourth estate. Almost all presidents are frustrated by a free press, and some have attempted to censor it. Beginning with George Washington (who was thin-skinned but did not strike out at the opposition), through Adams and Jefferson, and all the way t…

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#1675 What Is Habeas Corpus and Why Does It Matter? 56:19

10d ago56:19

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Clay and historian Beau Breslin discuss the doctrine of habeas corpus and its role in the current debate about how to handle undocumented immigrants in the United States. In a nutshell, habeas corpus means "hey, produce the body." You cannot just arbitrarily snatch someone off the street and make them disappear. Habeas corpus was so important to th…

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#1674 A Chat With Two Brits Who Are Floating the Missouri River From Montana to the Sea 53:43

18d ago53:43

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Clay's conversation with Nat and Mikey, schoolteachers from Britain, who are floating down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers from Three Forks, Montana, all the way to St. Louis and beyond, with hopes of ending in New Orleans around the time of Mardi Gras. They recount their adventures so far. At the time of the interview, they were just north of …

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#1673 In the Belly of the Beast 56:38

24d ago56:38

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Clay and his friend Russ Eagle discuss John Steinbeck's 1960 Travels with Charley tour of America from within Steinbeck's truck camper Rocinante. Thanks to the great generosity of the folks at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Clay and his Steinbeckian friend Russ were permitted to do the podcast at the dinette table of the pickup camper. T…

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#1672 President Jefferson Discusses America at 250 51:31

1M ago51:31

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Guest host David Horton talks with President Thomas Jefferson about the United States as the nation approaches its 250th birthday. Horton asks Jefferson to explain his vision of America, to assess its successes and failures in his own time, and then to observe and reflect on the United States today. Aside from a ruinous and swelling national debt, …

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#1671 Mysteries at the End of the Trail With David Nicandri 56:33

1M ago56:33

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Historian and author David Nicandri joins Clay in the LTA Airstream in Olympia, Washington, for a conversation about lingering mysteries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The first question was why Meriwether Lewis' journal remained silent when he finally reached the Pacific Coast, which was the primary purpose of his transcontinental expedition. …

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#1670 Paddling the Full Lewis and Clark Trail 54:35

2M ago54:35

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Clay interviews Montana adventurer Norm Miller, who has undertaken truly heroic canoe and kayak journeys on great rivers of the West. When he was 35, he retraced Scottish trader Alexander Mackenzie's 1789 2,000-mile journey from Lake Athabasca to the Arctic Ocean. When he was 41, during the Bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Norm float…

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#1669 A Conversation About Political Violence in America 56:20

2M ago56:20

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In the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah, Clay asked his good friend Beau Breslin of Skidmore College to join him in a conversation about political violence in America. Political violence is nothing new in America. We were born in an armed revolution, we've had waves of political violence throughout our history, and we seem as …

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#1668 Bittersweet Homecoming 53:23

2M ago53:23

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Clay talks about his 2025 trek across America in his 23-foot Airstream following the Lewis and Clark trail. Clay discusses RV life and provides a sense of what a day in the life of an RV drifter is like. Clay also speaks about his intensive study of the journals of Lewis and Clark and the book he is developing, tentatively titled Getting Noticed on…

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#1667 Lunch With America's Leading Steinbeck Scholar 50:49

2M ago50:49

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Clay and his friend Russ Eagle interview Robert DeMott, one of the greatest living Steinbeck scholars, at his fishing cabin on the Madison River, south of Bozeman, Montana. DeMott is the author of three important studies of Steinbeck's novels, the editor of the journal he kept while writing his classic, The Grapes of Wrath, and also the editor of t…

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#1666 Ten Books on the American Revolution 54:08

2M ago54:08

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Frequent guest, Lindsay Chervinsky, makes a late summer appearance to discuss Ten Books on the American Revolution. Ken Burns recently said the American Revolution was the most important event since the birth of Jesus. Our listeners have asked for advice about what to read as July 4, 2026, looms over American life. Lindsay is current with recent sc…

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#1665 Jefferson and Madison on Vacation 50:33

3M ago50:33

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Clay's conversation with historian Louis Masur about his new book A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, & the Forging of a Friendship. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison went on a monthlong tour of New England. They were weary from their struggles with Alexander Hamilton for the soul of America. They needed a vacation, but as exemplars of t…

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#1664 The Rivers of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 54:48

3M ago54:48

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Clay and his good friend Russ Eagle discuss the rivers Lewis and Clark traveled from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Ocean, including the Ohio, the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Clearwater, the Snake, and the Columbia. The paradox of Clay's 2025 Airstream journey along the Lewis and Clark Trail is that they floated America's rivers, and Clay has been dr…

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#1663 Presidential Finances 53:57

3M ago53:57

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Clay interviews Megan Gorman, the author of the excellent new book, All the President's Money: How the Men who Governed America Governed their Money. Gorman is a nationally respected money manager for some of the wealthiest Americans. She thought it would be interesting to explore the way American presidents have handled their finances, before, dur…

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#1662 Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail 53:28

3M ago53:28

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Clay's conversation with Claire Martin, who hiked the entire Pacific Crest Trail in 2020, more than 2,400 miles through some of the most rugged landscapes in America. Claire was a 2018 graduate of Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia. Without quite knowing why, she set out for the Mexican border with a 35-pound pack and began the long journey …

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#1661 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a New Constitution for the United States 55:36

4M ago55:36

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Frequent guest Beau Breslin of Skidmore College and one of his prize students, Prairie Gunnels, talk about a capstone project for Beau's Introduction to American Politics Course, in which students used the AI tool, ChatGPT, to write a new constitution for each of the seven generations that now share American soil. Professor Breslin is fully aware o…

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#1660 Ten Things: The Real Patrick Henry (Live) 50:35

4M ago50:35

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Clay's conversation with popular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky on Patrick Henry. Henry began his life as a shopkeeper but rose to become the governor of Virginia and one of the handful of most essential rabble-rousers in the American Revolution. Henry and Jefferson were frenemies; at one point, Jefferson (the Deist) said to his friend Madison, "We m…

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#1659 Theodore Roosevelt in Grand Canyon Country 55:47

4M ago55:47

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Clay's conversation with Harvey Leake, the great-grandson of the pioneering southwestern archaeologists John and Louisa Wetherill. Harvey tells the story of former President Theodore Roosevelt's 1913 visit to the Four Corners region. First, TR and his sons Archie, age 19, Quentin, age 15, and their cousin Nicholas Roosevelt, age 20, rode through th…

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#1658 Jay Carson, Boulder Outdoor Survival School and National Service 55:43

4M ago55:43

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Clay's interview with Jay Carson, the executive director of the Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS), located in remote Boulder, Utah. Jay Carson had a long and successful political career, including stints with Chuck Schumer, Howard Dean, and Bill Bradley. Jay has also had a successful career as a Hollywood screenwriter. But his life changed whe…

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#1657 Race in America: A Retrospective 53:14

5M ago53:14

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Clay's conversation with Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, professor of history at Norfolk State University in Virginia, about the status of race relations in America as we approach our 250th birthday. How should we read Thomas Jefferson's great sentence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"? Did Jefferson mean wha…

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#1656 A Conversation with Novelist Anne Hillerman 52:15

5M ago52:15

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Clay interviews the southwestern crime novelist Anne Hillerman, now publishing her 10th novel about crime-solving in the land of the Navajo in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. Anne is the daughter of the acclaimed and bestselling Tony Hillerman, who wrote 19 novels before he died in 2008. Anne decided to carry on the tradition, and her succ…

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#1655 Clay and Lindsay Live: Religious Freedom 51:37

5M ago51:37

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Clay's live conversation with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky on Religious Freedom. Clay and Lindsay met in person at The Historic Christ Church and Museum in Weems, Virginia to discuss the history of religous freedom in the United States. They talk about how many Presidents have shared the faith, why there was an effort to separate the church and state fro…

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#1654 Wandering In Canyon Country — A Conversation with Craig Childs 56:58

5M ago56:58

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Clay's conversation with writer Craig Childs of western Colorado. Childs is the author of more than a dozen books about America's backcountry. He's spent months, even years, exploring the Grand Canyon and a hundred lesser but magnificent canyons in desert country. Childs has been a river runner, a guide, and a consultant, but mostly, he is a writer…

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#1653 Clay and the new History Channel Series, Kevin Costner's The West 55:48

5M ago55:48

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Guest host Russ Eagle interviews Clay Jenkinson about the forthcoming eight-part History Channel series, Kevin Costner's The West. Clay was interviewed as a historical expert twice for the series produced by Doris Kearns Goodwin and featuring Kevin Costner. Clay explains his intensive preparations to participate in a documentary by Ken Burns or Dor…

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#1652 America's Public Lands: A Report Card 52:56

6M ago52:56

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Clay Jenkinson interviews Jonathan Thompson, the author of books about the American West, including Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands. Thompson has written much about the pushback of western ranchers, irrigators, mining interests, and chambers of commerce against federal regulation (and even …

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#1676 American Presidents and the Press 58:59

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#1675 What Is Habeas Corpus and Why Does It Matter? 56:19

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#1674 A Chat With Two Brits Who Are Floating the Missouri River From Montana to the Sea 53:43

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#1673 In the Belly of the Beast 56:38

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#1672 President Jefferson Discusses America at 250 51:31

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#1671 Mysteries at the End of the Trail With David Nicandri 56:33

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#1670 Paddling the Full Lewis and Clark Trail 54:35

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#1669 A Conversation About Political Violence in America 56:20

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#1668 Bittersweet Homecoming 53:23

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#1667 Lunch With America's Leading Steinbeck Scholar 50:49

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#1666 Ten Books on the American Revolution 54:08

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#1665 Jefferson and Madison on Vacation 50:33

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#1664 The Rivers of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 54:48

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#1663 Presidential Finances 53:57

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#1662 Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail 53:28

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#1661 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a New Constitution for the United States 55:36

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#1660 Ten Things: The Real Patrick Henry (Live) 50:35

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#1659 Theodore Roosevelt in Grand Canyon Country 55:47

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#1658 Jay Carson, Boulder Outdoor Survival School and National Service 55:43

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#1657 Race in America: A Retrospective 53:14

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#1656 A Conversation with Novelist Anne Hillerman 52:15

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#1655 Clay and Lindsay Live: Religious Freedom 51:37

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#1654 Wandering In Canyon Country — A Conversation with Craig Childs 56:58

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#1653 Clay and the new History Channel Series, Kevin Costner's The West 55:48

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#1652 America's Public Lands: A Report Card 52:56

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