The Bill Walton Show

Robert D. Atkinson, founder and president of ITIF, describes the United States role in the war for influence and control.

Dr. Robert Epstein and Reggie Littlejohn describe how a leaked internal Google video describes their goal of impacting the beliefs, attitudes, purchases, and votes of 2.5 billion people around the world.

Myron Ebell gives input on the EPA Endangerment Finding, subsidizing of wind and solar, and The Green New Deal. "If the Green New Deal were implemented, which is very similar to the idea that we're going to get off of coal, oil, and natural gas in 10 years, it would take an area comparable to the size of California, which is our third largest state. The environmental consequences of taking up all...

C.D. Dickerson III, Curator, and Head of the Sculpture Department at the National Gallery of Art, comments on issues around art ownership and repatriation - including art that was taken from Africa in the colonial era that now resides in museums all over the world.

C.D. Dickerson III, Curator, and Head of the Sculpture Department at the National Gallery of Art, comments on issues around art ownership and repatriation - including art that was taken from Africa in the colonial era that now resides in museums all over the world.

Our military has a disturbing tendency to keep fighting the last wars, not the likely future ones. Now a visionary general is being forced into retirement because he's advocating a very different approach to counter Chinese aims to achieve dominance in space. By employing technologies from space like lasers and robotic systems, China could severely compromise our national security and our economy....

Has Facebook corporate become a parody? They banned a Prager University video on the "Ten Commandments." Their explanation? "Well, it mentioned murder." Maybe next time Prager should do a video on the "Nine Commandments." There's much to learn about "social media speech police" on The Bill Walton Show with Brent Bozell and Dan Gainor. For example: What are the rules used to "de-platform" someone f...

For decades, the U.S. has given China preferred trade & economic status. In a long overdue effort, President Trump is now negotiating new and more balanced trade deals with China, but however effective new trade deals will prove to be, they cannot address the many other dangers posed by China's Communist Party. After seeing astounding economic growth, the Chinese leaders now show how little they v...

Economics as a discipline suffers from "physics envy" when it tries and fails to build mathematical models of the economy and society. Instead, it should be studying human behavior and focus on the intersection of health, morality, philosophy, wealth creation and how to bring people out of poverty, Jay Richards says on The Bill Walton Show. In particular, economics and culture can't be viewed sepa...

We know from history and evidence all around us, which economic system works, and which one makes people the happiest. It's the economic system of free enterprise. But is it the most moral? Bill Walton explores the question with Jay Richards, author of the newly reissued book "Money, Greed and God." He explains, "you need to ask: compared to what?" The question isn't, well, is it moral and as good...

If the Fed brought home a report card reflecting its performance since its creation in 1914, its parents would not be pleased. Its record for stability is among the worst in the developed world, and it has done little to fix the problems it was invented to address. Moreover, the Federal Reserve is far from the only way to assure stability in banking. As George Selgin of the Cato Institute and Norb...

There are right ways for states to manage their economies - and some very wrong ones. So if you wanted to make your state more prosperous, wouldn't it be helpful to have the tools to determine how it will perform years into the future? They exist. Developed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), "Rich States, Poor States" is an annual economic forecast for all 50 states based on thei...

Americans' theory that more trade with China would open up the country to more democracy has been proven wrong. In fact, say Reggie Littlejohn, Huchen Zhang and Chen Guancheng on The Bill Walton Show, they have backfired. "You cannot tolerate evil. You cannot treat evil with kindness," Zhang said. The Chinese consider Western countries to be naive and easily manipulated, but if the US will stand u...

Ken Fisher on: coastal redwoods, dikes, efficient markets, quantitative easing, the limits of our knowledge, climate change, the fed, interest rates, why $10 billion isn't that much money, money flows around the world like water downhill, tree science, behavioral science, why philanthropy is immoral and bad for humans, optimization of scarce resources, Bastiat, financial system intermediation and...

Species and habitat protection are issues that can be separated from polarizing disagreements about climate change. Everyone - on both the left and the right - ought to be able to come together to protect endangered species and their habitats. It's a problem that humans have created and one that humans can solve. But first, we must understand the enormous scope of the problem. Skipper Darlington a...

We had the good fortune to have Ron Nicol and Edwin Meese on The Bill Walton Show the day the Mueller report was released. Meese, a former U.S. Attorney General, says Robert Mueller should have made a decision on obstruction of justice by the president and that at least one of his attorneys was a "totally irresponsible, unprofessional, unscrupulous lawyer" whom "should not be in any part of the De...

The population of humans has almost tripled since 1950, and the impact on other species has been profound. Humans have absorbed vast amounts of habitat for living space and farmland, leading to the extinction of hundreds of species and threats to countless others. Ron Maxwell and Skipper Darlington join Bill Walton to talk about a radical but oddly simple and doable solution.

"The economy of Venezuela has collapsed as a result of gross socialist mismanagement. Their currency is essentially worthless. To start over, the next government of Venezuela must re-establish the rule of law, protect private property rights and create a new currency." So writes Richard Rahn, one of America's most brilliant economists. With socialism now stunningly in fashion in the United States,...

In China, the U.S. confronts an adversary that saw itself as the Middle Kingdom –the center of the universe –for 3,000 years, then endured a century of humiliation and now seeks to return to what it sees as its rightful place in the world. Join Bill Walton as he and veteran Washington foreign policy experts Dr. Stefan Halper and Adm. James Stark discuss China's comprehensive program to dominate it...

An entire industry – mostly government-funded – has sprung up around the idea of creating entrepreneurs. Don't buy any of it. Don't buy college. Don't buy business incubators. Don't buy mentors – you probably know more about what it takes to succeed in your business than they do. Start the business. As Carl Schramm and I discussed on "The Bill Walton Show," get your education at the School of Hard...

"Technology is creating unprecedented wealth the world over, and venture capitalists find themselves in the midst of the best opportunities. It's an exciting time. There are about $60 billion invested per year in US firms by venture capitalists, and my guests Dan Mindus and Brett Gibson, founders of NextGen, say another $100 billion or more is sitting on the sidelines ready to jump in. At the same...