The John Batchelor Show John Batchelor

PREVIEW: #GATES: #SODIUM REACTOR: Conversation with colleague Henry Sokolski on the announcement that a Bill Gates-founded company, TerraPower, has started building a Natrium Nuclear Energy Plant in Wyoming - and what to make of the claim that it is safer than existing hot water reactors. More detail later.

1979 Three Mile Island PA

PREVIEW: #FRANCE: Conversation with colleague Lord Conrad Black in Toronto re the savvy decision by President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap election on June 30 and July 7. More tonight.

1909 Bonaparte and his mother and sisters.

PREVIEW: #ITALIA: #G7: Conversation with colleague Lorenzo Fiori in Genoa re the leadership success of Italian PM Giorgia Meloni at the G7 meeting near Bari, Italy. Much more tonight.

1778 Rome

GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Brussels where the trend, says Anatol Lieven of Quincy, is toward young voters preferring the "far right" parties in each country, including Sweden, exclaims Anatol. To the Tri-Border region of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. To the Netherlands, to Taiwan, to California. To Campania, Italy and the G-7 where PM Meloni was the star. To The West Bank, to Yemen, to Havana Harbor and Mexico City and Buenos Aires. To Saipan, to DC, to empty civics classrooms since 1960.

1944 Saipan

4/4: A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis by  Jeffrey Sikkenga  (Author), David Davenport  (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Civic-Education-Crisis-Here-What/dp/164572049

1919 DUKE OF WINDSOR VISITING MT VERNON

3/4: A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis by  Jeffrey Sikkenga  (Author), David Davenport  (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Civic-Education-Crisis-Here-What/dp/1645720497

1750 BOSTON