Word From Our European Friends, February 2025
Tuesday, February 18 2025
Clay Jenkinson spent 10 days in Europe in early February, read the English language magazines and newspapers, conferred with old friends and new in England, France, and Switzerland, and attempted to assess the mood of Europe as the second Trump administration began. Here is his report.
- Published in Features
Pushing “Send” From Somewhere Under the English Channel
Tuesday, February 11 2025
Amazing Engineering Grace: The Brave New World we take for granted. Clay reports from “The Chunnel” traveling between England and France.
- Published in Features
The Cuban Missile Crisis, John Steinbeck, and the Nobel Prize — October 1962
Tuesday, February 04 2025
In preparation for a cultural tour of Cuba Clay will lead later this month, he came across a surprising connection between John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Published in Features
Why I’m Changing The Channel
Tuesday, January 28 2025
Clay details how cable news has long failed to reliably serve Americans, why he is tuning out, and what he’ll do instead.
- Published in Features
Sneak Peek: The 2026 Winter Retreats — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, January 21 2025
Clay with a look at what's coming for the 2026 Winter Retreats at beautiful Lochsa Lodge.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Shakespeare, Thoreau, and Ed Abbey in the Bitterroot Mountains
Tuesday, January 14 2025
Clay reports from his annual humanities retreat near the Montana-Idaho border in the Northern Rockies.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Recollections in Dallas: A Pivot of American History
Saturday, November 02 2024
While in Dallas, Texas, on his Steinbeck Travels with Charley Tour, Clay revisits places and memories connected with President John Kennedy’s tragic assassination on November 22, 1963.
- Published in Features
Theodore Roosevelt’s Unmatched Conservation Footprint and Eight Reasons He Got Away With It
Sunday, September 15 2024
Imagine America if Theodore Roosevelt had never been president. During his tenure, the “Cowboy President” set aside an astounding 230 million acres of U.S. public land as National Parks, National Monuments, National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, and National Game Preserves.
- Published in Features
Looking Forward to My Zoom Call With Lindsay
Tuesday, September 10 2024
I’ve read Lindsay Chervinsky’s new book Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic. It’s outstanding.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Peaceful Transfer of Power: Then and Now
Tuesday, September 03 2024
Lindsay Chervinsky’s new book closely examines the dramatic events that shaped America’s pattern for the peaceful transfer of power.
- Published in Books