Big Ideas Book Club with Steve Hilton

Author and Co-Founder of Truemed, Calley Means, joins us to discuss his new co-authored book called: “Good Energy, The Surprise and Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health”. The current statistics on chronic diseases and the number of medications prescribed to the average population should alarm everyone. While the answer to these illnesses is very simple, it’s being virtually ignored b...

In this episode, author and longtime friend Nellie Bowles joins us to discuss America’s current social and political climate. Nellie is one of the founders of The Free Press and she has recently written a book titled: “Morning After the Revolution”, which is a phenomenal work that breaks down the madness we have been witnessing across all sectors of our society. We discuss the revolution that'...

Economist at Oxford University and King’s College London, Daniel Susskind meets with me to discuss his new book, Growth: A History and a Reckoning . He discusses how we need more economic growth and how he believes we ought to do that, diving into climate change, technological progress, inequality, and protecting the things we care about. Is GDP a narrow way of measuring economic growth? What does...

Author and CSO of the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein joins us to discuss his book called Check Your Financial Privilege: Inside the Global Bitcoin Revolution. According to the statistics, anyone born into a reserve currency like the dollar or euro has more financial privilege than 89% of the world population. Gladstein details the explosive rise of Bitcoin over the last 15 years. Then, he...

Joel Kotkin, Sen. Gloria Romero, and Soledad Ursúa are the authors of a report called “El Futuro es Latino”, or, The future is Latino. While this report is not a book in the conventional sense, but it is a piece of work with findings that are extremely important. “El Futuro es Latino”, which was co-sponsored by my organization Golden Together, details the Latino experience in California and why La...

The former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, Liz Truss joins today’s episode to discuss her book “Ten Years to Save the West”. Liz and I discuss our similar experiences working at the highest levels of the British government where the machinations of the global Left run rampant. She warns how freedom is at risk, due to the ever-expanding “administrative state”. Ideas that would save Br...

Founder of the American Conservation Coalition, Benji Backer, joins today's episode to discuss his debut book, “The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future”. Benji and I discuss how conservation and environmentalism, at their roots, are conservative ideas. There are two arguments when addressing climate change, and it’s either “doomerism” or “denial”, but...

Professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Brad Wilcox joins us for today’s episode of Big Ideas! Brad Wilcox is the author of “Get Married, Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization”, which reveals the importance of marriage in society. Monogamy is a human institution almost as old as time itself, but...

In this week’s episode of Big Ideas Book Club, Rob Henderson joins us to talk about the social effect of the family. Rob Henderson is the author of “Trouble, A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class”, which is a raw coming-of-age memoir that recounts his experiences in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, and attending elite universities such as Yale and Cambridge. It is an absolut...

I am joined by Peter Schweizer, the author of “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans”. We discuss the idea that America is burning down in flames, especially surrounding the fentanyl crisis, and China is the one holding the lighter and gas cans. China does everything to undermine America, and our politicians are turning a blind eye. Schweizer and I dissect how...

Co-founder and CEO of Populace and ex-Harvard professor, Todd Rose, joins us for this week's episode of Big Ideas Book Club! Todd Rose is the author of “Collective Illusions”, which dissects how our brains are more socially dependent than we realize or dare to accept. People naturally end up adopting ideas to please the people around them, which creates a false polarization within society. Thi...

In this episode of Big Ideas, I am joined by my old college advisor and world-renowned expert on economic policy, Dr. Dieter Helm. We discuss his new book titled, “Legacy: How to Build a Sustainable Economy”, which details society’s current problems with sustainable consumption. We address what would a sustainable economy look like and what conditions would be necessary to achieve it. We also high...

On the inaugural episode of the Big Ideas Book Club, I am joined with Nick Troiano, the Executive director of Unite America and author of “ The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes” to discuss a tectonic shift in our politics and the current election system. We engage in a conversation over the old days, the “Top Two System,” and discuss his goal of nonpartisan primaries. We’r...