{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#1688 Ten Things About Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson","description":"Clay\u2019s favorite guest, Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, makes her first 2026 appearance to discuss foreign policy in the administrations of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. America\u2019s recent incursion into the sovereign nation of Venezuela raises questions about the war powers in America. The Founding Fathers were adamant that Congress (not the executive) must initiate wars, and vote funds to pay for them, too. We discuss the crisis of the French Revolution in America, Washington\u2019s famous Farewell Address in 1796, the Quasi-War with France during the John Adams administration, and Adams\u2019 heroic decision to seek peace rather than war with the French Republic. We explore Jefferson\u2019s idealism as voiced in a letter he wrote in 1799 and his famous First Inaugural Address in 1801. Jefferson believed it was too late in the world\u2019s history to solve our disputes through bloodshed, and yet he sent marines and a naval squadron to North Africa to bloody the nose of the Pasha of Tripoli. This episode was recorded on January 5, 2026. ","author_name":"Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson","author_url":"https:\/\/ltamerica.org\/","html":"