From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Whenever you hear the term despotism today, it's generally associated with monoskew, and that essentially means a tyranny or a form of government that power is centralized in one figure.

The laws and punishments are completely arbitrary, and people live under fear.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

And that's Dr. Khalil Habib, Allison and Dorothy Rouse Professor in Politics at Hillsdale

College.

We talk about Modiskew in depth on this, the anniversary week of his birth, way back in 1689. That's coming up just a little bit later on in today's program. First, we're joined by Dr. Timothy Dolch, Associate Professor of Physics at Hillsdale College. Dr. Dolch, thanks for joining us. Oh, thanks for having me, Scott. Last time we chatted about the James Webb Space Telescope,

and there's another Space Telescope still doing good work.

That's the Hubble, which has been around a bit longer.

And last year, Hubble delivered to us the most distant star,

picture of the most distant star ever seen,

28 billion light years away.

What was the previous distance record? How did Hubble manage to find

this one out there? Right. So previously, the furthest individual star we had seen with Hubble was a star

called Icarus, and that was 9 billion light years away. So this new star, Arundel,

which is happily named after the character who becomes a star in Tolkien. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

we know that. Of course we do. This one is about six times further.

And it's unusual to find individual stars that far.

Usually what we're seeing is galaxies that are that far away.

And galaxies have about 100 billion stars each.

But individual stars are usually too faint.

Except, as you and I have talked about before,

...