John Batchelor

"Although President Trump is saying that he is acting like a protectionist president with tariffs being a very good weapon, he's really trying to get everybody back to a zero-tariff situation . . . But with the Chinese situation, it's different." Gregory Copley on the program https://t.co/g1YGUEGh71

Delighted to host author and historian @RussellShorto on the program to discuss his riveting new book Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. Our full conversation is available for free on Substack: https://t.co/rlf9t9OEZR https://t.co/4svm2959gl

"The worst thing that could happen now would be for the Trump administration to get into the weeds and bring in Europe and Ukraine into any kind of deal." @Michalis_Vlahos on Londinium Chronicles, full episode free on Substack: https://t.co/h3HH0UtoCE https://t.co/Fat7zkVnGa

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Good evening: The show begins in the markets as Brett Arends of MarketWatch comments on the panic. https://t.co/rmrjeMAv7u via @Audioboom

Speaking to @charlescwcooke writing for @CivitasOutlook on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher fifty years later. Full conversation free on Substack: https://t.co/hAct9OONOA https://t.co/r1b5xOA1mC

PREVIEW: Colleague Evan Ellis of the US Army War College relates how Brazil benefited from tariffs during the first Trump administration unleashing tariffs on the PRC. More later. https://t.co/OnP6mADZFY via @Audioboom

"This was something the world had never seen before. It was unique in the history of the time. It was what radical and progressive and democratic Europeans longed for. They understood what the American Union was about." Historian and author Richard Carwardine on the program to https://t.co/yvnACRymGq

I speak to @Reinsch84 Richard Reinsch of @UT_Civitas on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and "how ideology destroys the human person." Full conversation free on Substack: https://t.co/aAPUiovefK https://t.co/4XcZp4nQZC

"Cicero's cannon was exactly what the Democrats wanted and needed —and could never find." Today on Londinium Chronicles, Gaius and Germanicus (@Michalis_Vlahos) discuss a potential election in Ukraine, a new relationship between Russia and the United States, a civil war fought https://t.co/A5MSZY5oP1

Jonathan H. Adler of @UT_Civitas on state-led lawfare: "We increasingly see states—instead of defending their own ability to adopt the policies they want—suing the federal government to impose their preferred policies nationwide." Meanwhile, state governments challenge Trump https://t.co/dmpWmpPtfa

"Where's Congress? Why isn't Congress intervening? Because Congress could diffuse the whole problem. Congress could, for example, pass a law making clear that foreign terrorist groups and gangs like Tren de Aragua are included with the Alien Enemies Act. That would make this very https://t.co/PoEY9zAunZ

"When Blue or Democrats talk about 'our democracy' they mean themselves as congressmen and women, as heads of corporations—as what we call 'oligarchs,' because effectively you have a very small group of engaged people." From the 1st century A.D., Gaius and Germanicus https://t.co/TLF837Mp65

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"The Liberal Party of Canada has (like many other Western, liberal and progressive parties) sort of a strain of, I'd say, anti-Americanism in it. And it's something that they've played to in terms of trying to develop fear around the impacts of this trade war that we're not https://t.co/FDDMnGI94Y

"It looks to me like the only options Iran has is continue their current course and be struck with these weapons by the Israelis, or take the soft approach of a Trump negotiated settlement." @WeTheBrandon Brandon Weichert is on the program to discuss his new book The Shadow https://t.co/sflyNWZAJg

"Mr. Trump campaigned on DOGE. Musk was there. They said what they were going to do . . . Did Washington not believe it?" @Michalis_Vlahos on Londinium Chronicles, full conversation free on Substack: https://t.co/iCQnoUD9Rp https://t.co/HPY7PifKlX