The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 21 August 2018

Air Date: 
August 21, 2018

Engraving:  A depiction of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake as seen from across the Tagus River
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump.
 
Hour One
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 1, Block A:.  Elizabeth Peek, Fox News,  in re: The still-surprisingly good condition of the US economy; analysis and prognostications.
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 1, Block B:   Elizabeth Peek, Fox News,  in re: Manafort trial and the surrounding din and flurries.
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 1, Block C:   Bill Whalen, Hoover, in re: Very current political matters, including the often-puzzling assertions of Californiacs.
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 1, Block D:   Steve Steinway, ProPurUSA.com; in re:  A doughty American entrepreneur founds a business, rides the waves and survives several national economic disasters; is producing a US-made, high-quality water filter, one model of which is excellent for travel.
 
Hour Two
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:   The puzzling—sometimes astounding—events surrounding Brennan’s unique attack on a sitting president, and the relation of some of today’s trials to the accusations of collaboration with the Russians (nothing discernable yet).  (1 of 4)
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 2, Block B:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  (2 of 4)
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 2, Block C:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  (3 of 4)
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 2, Block D:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; in re: (4 of 4)
 
Hour Three
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 3, Block A:  Andrew C McCarthy, III, National Review columnist, & formerly Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; in re: Manafort trial and the surrounding din and flurries. (1 of 2)
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 3, Block B:  Andrew C McCarthy, III, National Review columnist, & formerly Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; in re:  Manafort trial and the surrounding din and flurries. (2 of 2)
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 3, Block C:   Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: China to put a rover n the dark side of the Moon – and a new paper asserts there are deposits of water ice on the lunar poles (data are from India’s Chandrayan probe a decade ago.  That’d make the poles extremely valuable – but scepticism is in order because of conflicting. data
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 3, Block D: Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: [more space!]
 
Hour Four
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 4, Block A:  This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason, by Mark Molesky
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 4, Block B:  This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason, by Mark Molesky
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 4, Block C:  Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea, by Tim McGrath
Tuesday 21 August 2018/ Hour 4, Block D:  Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea, by Tim McGrath