The great and brilliant Kevin Gutzman joins us to discuss his brand new book, released just today, called The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. Sponsor BitTrust IRA helps you seamlessly and securely add cryptocurrency to your portfolio. It stores your private keys… Read More
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Ep. 2077 The Economics of Thomas Jefferson
Germinal G. Van joins me to discuss his 22nd book, in which he evaluates the good and the bad in Jeffersonian economic policy. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes in design, business, technology, and more. Get one month free at skillshare.com/woods… Read More
Ep. 2009 Thomas Jefferson vs. Your Teacher
Marco Bassani fills in the sections of 19th-century US history your teacher left out, particularly involving state resistance to the federal government. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes in design, business, technology, and more. Get a free trial of premium… Read More
Ep. 1927 Thomas Jefferson Is Better Than Rachel Maddow
Michael Boldin reflects on 15 years of the Tenth Amendment Center, which he founded in 2006. For 15 years Boldin and the Center have brought a perspective into American life that would otherwise have been absent. The Center’s boldness has occasionally provoked rebukes from D.C.… Read More
Ep. 1912 The Thomas Jefferson They’d Rather You Not Know About
Brion McClanahan and I discuss the ideas of Thomas Jefferson that the political and academic classes despise. Sponsor BetterHelp offers professional counseling online at affordable prices. Get matched with your own licensed, professional therapist, to whom you can send a message anytime (and get timely… Read More
Ep. 1229 Thomas Jefferson: The History You Never Learned
Jefferson biographer Kevin Gutzman, who just released a new course on Jefferson for my LibertyClassroom.com , joins me to discuss Jefferson’s influences, his early political career, his extraordinary accomplishments even outside politics, and a lot more. Sponsor At PolicyGenius.com , you can get quotes and compare rates… Read More
Ep. 856 The Thomas Jefferson Nobody Knows
Kevin Gutzman returns to explain where historians have gone wrong on Jefferson, why Jefferson was no conservative, the ups and downs of his presidency, and more. About the Guest James Madison biographer Kevin Gutzman is a professor of history and chairman of the department of… Read More
Ep. 851 Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America
Thomas Jefferson, says biographer Kevin Gutzman, is the most significant statesman in American history. We discuss Jefferson’s views on federalism, education, the University of Virginia, slavery, colonization, American Indians, and freedom of conscience. About the Guest James Madison biographer Kevin Gutzman is a professor of… Read More
Who Was the Real Thomas Jefferson?
No one doubts that our understanding of historical figures may need to be revisited from time to time. But academic specialists have been known to overreach. To portray a historical figure in a light exactly opposed to the popular impression and to how all other… Read More
Ep. 1390 Jefferson and Slavery: Non-Cartoon Version
Madison and Jefferson biographer Kevin Gutzman joins me to discuss Jefferson’s real record on slavery, the emphasis on slavery among the Western left (which leaves the impression among most students today that slavery was exclusive to the West, when in fact the West led the… Read More