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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion with Alan Taylor (opens the original)

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    I welcome Professor Alan Taylor, twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion, has been a revelation to me.It opens a window into the lives of enslaved people in America during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The lessons of this history are still with us.Through the story of one plantation and its way of life, Taylor takes us beyond the familiar accounts of the Civil War. He reveals how a whole region of the country—sharing the same Co

  2. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    China–Philippines tensions, Iran and U.S. naval operations, the Trump–Xi summit, and Canada–U.S. relations | Sept. 30th, 2026 (opens the original)

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    Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.Get more from John Batchelor in the Substack appAvailable for iOS and Android

  3. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Michigan Senate Race, AI Data Centers and the 2026 Midterms (opens the original)

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    Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.Get more from John Batchelor in the Substack appAvailable for iOS and Android

  4. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    The Tyrant Who Failed (opens the original)

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    Salvē!This episode of Londinium Chronicles was broadcast live yesterday on YouTube, X, and here on Substack.Join us this Sunday at 6PM EST on Substack for another live broadcast.Tyrannos is a word that probably comes from Asia. It translates into tyranny, tyrant. It had, in the Greek world before the Romans came, no negative connotation. It was a way of talking about a leader, a king.Kin

  5. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    Our Magnetic Solar System (opens the original)

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    is my colleague and co-host on Hotel Mars, Episode N. We’re headed to the very early solar system. Our beautiful sun, sometimes called the yellow dwarf, came together out of a gas cloud. We’ve seen those gas clouds in exoplanet orbits. We’ve seen and understood how gas clouds are organized by gravity. But what I didn’t know was that the magnetic field that protects us here on Earth—the magnetic field that is part of our solar system’s successes—is also a contributor to the birth of the sun and t

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