Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners this week

Well, first off, thank you for listening, but this week we do a program which we really didn't anticipate doing

Part of me thought it would be better to just talk to Jefferson about gardens

But we didn't we talked about January 6th 2021

amazing

troubling

perplexing

sad

humiliating day in American history and yet not all bad

I think we want to make this introduction brief. I merely want to say I hope people will

Sign up and participate in my course on the US Constitution

I was thinking about it all yesterday and all today never have we needed

sober contextualized humanities based historically solid conversation about the United States Constitution as much as we do right now

And so we're going to be doing the course again

At the end of January and through February five weeks all Saturdays and then office hours on Wednesday nights

There's room for plenty of people in several sections

But it turned out in the fall to be a very very interesting online

Of course no exams no final papers or anything

If it was interesting in the fall, it's going to be really really interesting in the spring day

But we have just lived through a couple of crises

We've been in a constitutional crisis. We have the first president in American history who has

Refused to engage in a peaceful transfer of power that led actually to a riot at the United States capital

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