yes, so thomas jefferson and your childhood hero? was way over the top and pinning every bad thing in the american colonies on king george. it king george made a convenient villain because they're going to set up a republic which would replace the monarch, but jefferson knew the other members of the continental congress knew that the laws that they were complaining about hadn't been passed by king. george have been passed by parliament, but it was more convenient for their political purposes to come up with one figure of face on the evil that they were confronting. rather than just a committee. and so if you read the declaration of independence, it really exaggerates what it was the americans were facing and especially impending the blame on king george. one of the things one of the many things i've learned is how difficult it has been for authors to make their work known during the last two years of this pandemic. winning pulitzer prizes being nominated for them so treat yourself and read their books. they're marvelous. we owe them

well, i, i am not aware that there are any isolationist in the united states, but thomas jefferson talked about that he said, trade and neutral goodwill with all countries and tangling alliances with 9. so if you want to call me and i shall lation as i would be, a thomas jefferson, isolationist right. president biden has been came to shift responsibility for rising cost and inflation. and on to russia, jeffery, calling a price hike. is that for? do you think the american people are buying it? well, it's completely false. in my opinion, the main causes of inflation are very long standing policies of the united states and congress. and i would list 3 of them. 75 years of grossly excessive spending by congress on needed weapons and illegal unnecessary wars. number 2, incomplete incompetence of the so called federal reserve for the last 15 to 20 years or more, also known as the fed. and 3 reckless, foolish counter productive and self destructive economic sanctions that the u. s. has placed on russia, china, iran, venezuela, and many other countries. those 3 factors, i think account for the va

thomas jefferson's time, and this is one of her favorite quotes from thomas jefferson that i was grace the garden. the failure of one thing replaced repaired by the success of, another and instead -- this was assigned we kept in the jefferson beds the whole time. how did we decide what to grow? it was easy. with the first family eight. the national park service staff worked with the white house chefs with what they would use in the kitchen, what they would use in state events whether first family would eat. -- the chefs would come down and harvest throughout the year. -- they use some fruit for the first family's private meals, but these are tomatoes and radishes that were also a vegetable kebab that was that one of the state, congressional picnics. i think this was 2015. also the thing that they couldn't use. white house chefs process them for later use. and everything else they could not use was given away to a local soup kitchen. at the end of the summer, the first lady would have another gathering with school kids. they would come out, and the white house chefs would come out as we

. >> if you take down a bramley getting thomas jefferson you basically taken down america. finally the war going on against the cultural inheritance to the west. some of the greatest achievements of humankind being looked at by a bias lens. >> all you need to do today is here the new york times or the washington post or cnn to discredit an individual or an institution put an adjective like. >> you have to ask yourself why, why is this happening. >> if your goal is to totally reform the morality of politics, how do you convince people to everything they believe is good is actually bad. >> today and going to be doing to discuss this by america's leading adventures. this is the war on the west. host of the podcast conversations with. and max, the enterprise institute and author of the forthcoming book schoolhouse rock's. max, let me start with you when you describe the world the west is a system of ideas, values, is seems to start from somewhere and goes through everything in her culture in america and the west. where this is start from. >> as such from the very beginning, one

thomas jefferson who wrote those phrases 169 years ago and who pledged his life to give the meaning? was one of the founders of the library of congress he knew that democracy must eventually be based on the foundation of an enlightened people. that is why placing facts within reach of the citizen becomes the business of a government. and that is why the first tuesday in every month is so important to our young friend and the farmers in the hills of virginia. you know.

thomas jefferson's time, and this is one of her favorite quotes from thomas jefferson that i was grace the garden. the failure of one thing replaced repaired by the success of, another and instead -- this was assigned we kept in the jefferson beds the whole time. how did we decide what to grow? it was easy. with the first family eight. the national park service staff worked with the white house chefs with what they would use in the kitchen, what they would use in state events whether first family would eat. -- the chefs would come down and harvest throughout the year. -- they use some fruit for the first family's private meals, but these are tomatoes and radishes that were also a vegetable kebab that was that one of the state, congressional picnics. i think this was 2015. also the thing that they couldn't use. white house chefs process them for later use. and everything else they could not use was given away to a local soup kitchen. at the end of the summer, the first lady would have another gathering with school kids. they would come out, and the white house chefs would come out as we

others are specifically about presidential households, one for thomas jefferson, one for james madison, etc. this helped guide the timeline. finally, what is most important to me, the stories of the individuals. we have been able to tell these really incredible stories through, you know, a person that i really enjoy is a woman named alicia browning tenor, she is very inspiring to me. she may have worked in the white house, i found a little bit about it for that but it is not confirmed. she did sell vegetables in a stand in lafayette park, writer across the street. there are rumors that jefferson visited the stand. owners allowed her to do so. she ended up saving her money from that stand and 1810 purchases their own freedom for 1400 dollars. she then goes on to purchase many, many, other members have her family to freedom. she establishes herself in a surprisingly free black in washington d.c.. she eventually even buys a home very close to the white house. that is what we call it slavery in the presidents neighborhood. these individuals are part of the presidents community. they live i

so in the declaration of independence thomas jefferson wrote the famous words, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. in our class today, we're going to think about how this original and most fundamental statement of rights came true for disabled americans in the decades after the revolution. so word disabled people able to access these basic ideals of freedom and equality. were they able to reap the promises of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness? and importantly, you know, how did gender race in class change the equation so were some disabled people able to access these rights and not others. we will also importantly consider how disabled people. faced with legal political and social barriers how they fought back and fought for greater equality and opportunity. okay, so in my lecture today, i'm going to try to convince you of two main points. these are powerful statements and they are challenging statements. and t

. >>> thomas jefferson once said that a room without books is a life without meaning. and we have looked at some great books and we have this fair this month that we want to encourage you and hopefully add some meaning to your life. tell us more about the antiquarian book fair. >> the book fair is hosted by the abaa which is the antiquarian book sellers association of america. it is associated also with the ilab which is the international league of antiquarian book sellers. so there will be international book sellers attending and exhibiting. >> what about discovery day? >> there will be on sunday between 1:30 and 3:00 there will be discovery day at the fair in which you can bring in books that you think might be of some value or you want to find out more about them and some of the members will be there to evaluate them and tell you about them and i believe that'll be free on that sunday for the discovery day. i believe you still have to pay admission to come in. >> but you can bring your books. >> yeah. they'll give you a free evaluation. >> how many people do you ant

thomas jefferson writing about the declaration of independence but then owning human beings. so, when black and brown and others come along, it is our -- the night before he died said america, all we ask is be true to what you said on paper. that's what it will take. >> michael eric dyson, the only person who can talk about stevie wonder, thomas jefferson and make we want to solve the next wordle clue. i appreciate you always. i'm so glad to have you on the show. and i loved your book. thank you so much. >> thank you so kindly. >>> look, the former officer who held down george floyd's legs in his final nine moments, he pleaded guilty today to second degree manslaughter. if you forgot the specifics in the two years since george floyd was killed, lane was only days into his job. and he's the one, recall, who asked derek chauvin if floyd should be moved out of that prone position. but he never actually did get off the man, as he lay in the street dying. the state's attorney general says this plea is proof lane, quote, accepted his responsibility for his role in floyd's death. th

you could borrow from a bank thomas jefferson took 54 years and probably the longest home improvement project in history to finish monticello because he could never get enough money to do it at once but that was also that's that's taking a light view of it. he was an absolute. compulsive shopper who just kept spending and spending and they also he had the idea that if the british were going to rip him off he was going to rip them off so he didn't he didn't put spend much time or money paying off his debts to england. he rationalized. he he rationalized everything including his debts. there is a founding father whose name is whose signature is bigger than anyone's. on the declaration of independence. do you think that wealthy merchant and patriot? john hancock is underrated in his contribution to the revolution. i think he definitely is. and i'm i'm working on that frankly. he's underrated because he he's underrated because he overdressed maybe that's too simplistic, but he was born the son of a country parson in massachusetts penniless. he was adopted by a wealthy uncle and aunt who h

you could borrow from a bank thomas jefferson took 54 years and probably the longest home improvement project in history to finish monticello because he could never get enough money to do it at once but that was also that's that's taking a light view of it. he was an absolute. compulsive shopper who just kept spending and spending and they also he had the idea that if the british were going to rip him off he was going to rip them off so he didn't he didn't put spend much time or money paying off his debts to england. he rationalized. he he rationalized everything including his debts. there is a founding father whose name is whose signature is bigger than anyone's. on the declaration of independence. do you think that wealthy merchant and patriot? john hancock is underrated in his contribution to the revolution. i think he definitely is. and i'm i'm working on that frankly. he's underrated because he he's underrated because he overdressed maybe that's too simplistic, but he was born the son of a country parson in massachusetts penniless. he was adopted by a wealthy uncle and aunt who h

he is the fifth generation descendant of sally hemings and thomas jefferson. i thought that was so fit! i called him up and i asked, despite never having talked to him before, would you like to participate in my imaginary constitutional convention. being the generous, beautiful human being that he is he was totally site to do it! he is my presiding officer. mike bruni is the guy on the bottom. he is the ceo, president of the sierra club. the world's largest environmental conservation group. i called him up because there is no doubt in my mind that environmental issues would be on the docket of a 2022 constitutional convention. i said, mike, would you mind being a participant in my imaginary constitutional convention? he too, beautiful person, says absolutely! he crafted language like he was a delicate to the constitutional convention. it was super fun, as i said. you can see environmental protection as the second bullet point. obviously with so many things that are talked about in the book that you will no doubt want to get in and talk about senate reconfigura

jefferson. and while the transfer of power was ultimately peaceful. adams did forego his successors inauguration. i think that's also happened another time or two, but i won't bring that up. and those two men actually remained at odds for many many years. it was only later during their retirement. did they actually rekindle their friendship? discussing many different topics in their correspondence including the topic of death adams actually wrote to jefferson in 1822 these words quote. i answer your question. is death an evil? it is not an evil. is a blessing. to the individual and to the world yet we ought not to wish for it. to life becomes in supportable end quote he was 86 years old when he wrote this note. perhaps adams had become comfortable with the idea of leaving the world. but it was four years later. that both men adams and jefferson passed away on the same exact day july 4th 1826 and while he was not present when his father died john quincy adams later recorded his father's last word

thomas jefferson was viewed as a deplorable human being but thomas jefferson's words freed more human beings than any other political philosophers words in the history of the human right. >> exactly. and it is so ridiculous to look at a nation's history or people in history and say we're only going to look at the good things. we're going to ignore all of the bad things but equally it is absurd to look at the history of america and say we're going to only focus on the negative and i nor the positive or the good things people have done an just seize on individual acts that we now disagree with. churchill is a good example, because in the u.k., churchill statue has been repeatedly assaulted by crowds who say he had victorian attitudes about race. well, yes, churchill was born in the victorian era. of course he'd had that attitude. but surely saving the world from nazi germany should count as something. >> and as you say throughout the book and talking about race, let me find it. when you talk about race, you say nobody could deny the scourge of racism, a scourge that has been found in so

they lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomas's jefferson's travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. great. well, thank you. thank you scuppernong and and c-span. thank you everybody for watching. so. so yes, this book is about it's about me following jefferson's travels across europe and it's really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we don't often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president, but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. it was in his when he was middle age in the 1780s. so jefferson was just going into his 40s, and he almost didn't travel to france at all. he had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador from the united states and a declined it both times. but there were there were two events two traumatic events that real

it's called the constitution for the living and it takes a simple debate between thomas jefferson and james madison and kind of imagines a different world, right? so so i'm the constitutional theorist. i'm very interested in constitutions and as most of you know madison in 1787. father of the constitution is writing the constitution. he has great admiration for jefferson. so when he's done with the project in september of 1787, he ships off a copy of the constitution to to jefferson who's in paris and asked jefferson what he thinks about the constitution and they get into this roughly two-year correspondence back and forth about the virtues and vices of the draft constitution and jefferson writes back to madison and says, oh, you know, i like certain things about the constitution but one thing i do not like about the constitution is that there's no sunset claws, right? so and what he meant by that is there's no mechanism for the constitution to be rewritten at various times and he writes this famous line. he writes famous statement that the earth belongs and use a front to the living