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S8 Ep264: THE RETURN OF THE NOBLE MONARCH Colleague Gregory Copley. Gregory Copley argues that the world has reached "peak republicanism," where republics have become inefficient political battlegrounds. He defines nobility not as a class structure, but as a qualit

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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THE RETURN OF THE NOBLE MONARCH Colleague Gregory Copley. Gregory Copley argues that the world has reached "peak republicanism," where republics have become inefficient political battlegrounds. He defines nobility not as a class structure, but as a quality of honorable leadership that embodies the state's values. Copley suggests modern monarchies, like that of King Charles III, are reinvigorating this role by acting as apolitical symbols of unity and diplomacy, unlike elected leaders who only represent their voters. NUMBER 13
1670 CHARLES II OF GREAT BRITAIN

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This is CBSI on the world.

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I'm John Batchel.

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It's a great pleasure to welcome my colleague and friend and mentor, Gregory Copley,

0:50.3

for his new book, The Noble State Governance Options in an Innoble Era.

0:56.4

We begin with the word noble, as in nobility.

1:00.6

That is critical to understand because we have not left it behind in the Enlightenment period.

1:06.3

We are not headed to a period where the word noble is going to take on some other version of

1:12.5

itself. It is now what it was 100,000, 2,000 years ago. It is a quality and it attaches

1:20.4

to people of all kinds. However, we need to define it very carefully here because we're talking about politics in the 21st century.

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Gregory, congratulations.

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A very good evening.

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Nobility, a definition that can help us through this conversation.

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Good evening to you.

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