The Bill Walton Show

Listen in to a behind the scenes story meeting as the Bill Walton Show team speculates on what's going on in the world. Starlink satellites and all the junk flying around in space, Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos, Ukraine, the domino theory, Biden's open borders, Alyona's Kazakhstan take on Russia, media's monolithic coverage of Ukraine, inflation, cooking oil and fertilizer prices, the insane (perhaps) S...

We're more than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic. So by now, we should know enough to assess what we've learned about the measures our governments took to mitigate the virus?  What worked? What didn't? Fortunately, we now have a comprehensive comparative study, published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, authored by University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan -...

In this episode I'm talking again with Dr. J. Michael Waller, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy,   Mike's Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today predicted the rise of the KGB, and inevitably, a Vladimir Putin. He was also Annenberg Professor of International Communication at the Institute of World Politics, and instructor in SYOPS operation at the Kennedy Special Warfare Center Schoo...

This episode is a follow-up to my conversation a few weeks ago with Dr. Peter Vincent Pry about our concerns that our Administration's responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine could lead to nuclear war.   Today, we consider also an alternate possibility that Vladimir Putin is playing a much deeper game than most in the West have imagined.   As Executive Director of the Task Force on National a...

Since the COVID-19 virus was loosed upon the world, either intentionally or accidentally, from Wuhan, China, the world has been fundamentally changed. The globalist economic and geopolitical fabric has been torn. There is no one single dominant power anymore and the post Cold War, unipolar world system is gone and is not coming back.   Russia now is the first to take advantage of what they think i...

"No borders. No walls. No USA at all."      Chant by Antifa rioters marching in the streets of Denver.   With Ukraine and Russia dominating the headlines, America seems to have lost focus on the border - and the war - that really counts. It's not Ukraine, it's America's southern border with Mexico. The Biden Administration seems simply to have "opened it up." Completely. And what's happening is an...

Thirty years ago, the United States, Europe, and Japan manufactured 90 percent of the global supply of the key ingredients for the world's medicines and vitamins. No more. China is now the largest global supplier. Millions of Americans are taking prescription and over-the-counter drugs made in, or with critical ingredients from China and they don't know it and neither do many of their doctors. Thi...

Growing up Bozell. Stops Along the Way: A Catholic Soul, a Conservative Heart, an Irish Temper, and a Love of Life. Talking in this episode with L. Brent Bozell III, author of Stops Along the Way and who is one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today. Brent founded and is president of the Media Research Center, the largest media watchdog organization...

This is a very upsetting episode. I'm joined by my frequent guest Dr Peter Vincent Pry and we're talking about Ukraine and the likelihood of nuclear war. Dr Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, served as chief of staff to the congressional EMP Commission, and director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum. Just recently, he published a piece titled, "The Nucl...

For a wide ranging overview of how and why the Biden's national and homeland security teams have made America more vulnerable on virtually every front, start here. I'm joined on this episode by Fred Fleitz , Vice Chair of America First Policy Institute's Center for American Security and who served as Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council and John Z...

In the past two years, measures taken to deal with Covid have resulted in extraordinary losses of freedom in the West - in fact, all over the world - driven by government mandates and lockdowns. Now that it's clear that we're no longer in the throes of a pandemic, what next? For how long are citizens prepared to accept these extraordinary extensions of state power and loss of their civil liberties...

James Lindsay is someone who truly understands Critical Race Theory and doesn't believe a word of it. As James explains in this episode of The Bill Walton Show,   "Critical Race Theory is a disaster. Critical Race Theory is the tip of a 100 year-long spear that's being thrust into the side of Western civilization. In its simplest terms, CRT is Race Marxism."   Like Marxism, CRT is a fundamentalist...

The subtitle of Matt Schlapp's new book, written with Deal Hudson, sums up well why this book is a must read.   Defeating the cancel culture mob and reclaiming one nation under God   They write: "For half a century, people of faith have seen traditional ideas of morality undermined as a cascade of progressive revolutions impacted society. The waves of change hit the shores, but most nevertheless b...

There are growing calls among political elites in Washington for the United States to "do something" about preventing a Russian invasion of the Ukraine.   But do we have the military capabilities to stop it? Why do we want Ukraine to join NATO? Does Ukraine matter?   Why are American politicians who have been so soft toward Moscow for their entire political careers all of a sudden turn uber hawks...

On this episode we're talking with economist Steve Moore about his terrific new book Govzilla . It's a sobering, yet easy to read, tale of the gigantic expansion of government over the last 50 years, and especially over the last two years since COVID hit. "The virus became an excuse to massively expand the powers of government," says Steve, "the size of government, the regulatory reach of governme...

America's founding ideals and our nation's rich Judeo-Christian heritage have been under constant attack from a so-called "progressive" Left for over a hundred years.   Yet as they've marched through and deconstructed America's great cultural institutions, instead of the "progress" they claim, we're seeing the opposite. It's abundantly clear now that as the progressive elites prevail, the rest of...

In this episode we get to talk with George F. Will about his latest collection of essays, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 , and also about his magnum opus, The Conservative Sensibility .   Joining in on the conversation are John Tamny, Vice President of FreedomWorks, editor of RealClearMarkets, and author of When Politicians Panicked ,   and Don Boudreaux, Profess...

The 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing China opens a few weeks from now, and the International Olympic Committee's 2015 decision to have China host the event looks ever more dubious.   Since then, it's become obvious to most observers that China, never a champion of human rights, is growing ever more oppressive. It's Communist Party leadership has become even more deeply committed to preserving its m...

Unprecedented government measures to stop the spread of an unstoppable virus have morphed into mortal threats to our liberties and civil rights, not just here in the United States, but worldwide.    First we were told that lockdowns, masks, and social distancing stop the spread of the virus. Do these things and we would be safe. There's no clear correlation between these measures and the spread of...

Today's episode is a treasure trove of important facts that we all should know about technology, society and the future. My guest is once again Mark Mills, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute - who specializes on science, technology, energy, and future manufacturing technologies - and who has just published The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Ec...

Albert Einstein said science can only flourish in an atmosphere of free speech.   Today, despite claims about "following the science" with regard to Covid 19, this is simply not happening. Why? Because "they" have taken away one of the essential elements of science: allowing people to disagree based on facts learned through experiments and observation, reconciling practical knowledge and ends with...

Over the course of roughly four generations, from around 1950 to the present, American culture has been transformed from a culture that believed in the value of self-control into a culture that celebrates self-expression. And that "self-expression" has now twisted into a new form of anger - political wrath - which makes a performance art out of our darkest emotions. So argues my guest on this epis...

In this episode, we're talking again about the coercive power of the Administrative State and its serious threat to our constitutional freedoms. No other development in contemporary American law denies more rights to more Americans. Joining me to discuss is Mark Chenoweth, Executive Director, and Jenin Younes, Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) a public interest litigat...

Your eyes may glaze over when you hear people talking about the "administrative state." But if you care about liberty, it's long past time to start paying close attention to what it is and how impervious it has become to election outcomes. Today in Washington, we have what's become effectively a fourth branch of government: an unelected permanent bureaucracy of self-regarding "expert" progressive...

In the past decade, America's big businesses have increasingly moved to the political left. For evidence, take a look at their actions and stances on critical race theory indoctrination, vaccine mandates, radical climate change agendas, boardroom "diversity", doing business and making common cause with a hostile China, etc … on issue after issue they align with the "woke" left. Now even the Federa...