The Bill Walton Show

I open this show fondly quoting Shakespeare about how "one man in his time plays many parts." He could have been writing about my friend and one of my personal heroes Tony Perkins Tony's indeed a man of many extraordinary and effective parts. He's president of the Family Research Council. He's been chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and past President of the Council f...

America is waking up to the capture of our institutions by the "progressive" woke Left. Beginning with K-12 education, universities, the media, and Hollywood, it's now moved into many churches, our military and corporate boardrooms. This didn't happen overnight. In this wide ranging and thoughtful conversation with Mark Meckler and Eric O'Keefe, we explore its roots going back to an obscure Italia...

It's almost two years on from the onset of the Covid virus and we know a lot now that we didn't then. Society should be healing. But we live in vitriolic and partisan times, and widespread disagreement abounds about what it was, what it is, what it isn't and how to cope with it.  Yet to those who understand how economies work, this much seems clear: governments' blunderbuss one-size-fits-all lockd...

First year economics classes usually begin the semester with the principles of supply and demand. You learn that incentives matter and that to suggest otherwise is to betray basic principles of economics - and human nature. You learn that you can ignore or violate these fundamental laws, but that you cannot change them. You learn that throughout history the societies that have succeeded recognize...

It is hard to overstate the assault   on civil liberties we are witnessing   in America today.   What began over a year and a half ago as temporary government measures to keep us safe from a virus spread from China, have now metastasized into something much more sinister, spreading to all aspects of societies around the world.   We need to name this thing, understand what's happening to us,   and...

In this episode we talk with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, formerly Chair of the House Intelligence Committee and now Chairman of the Center for Security Policy Board of Advisors.  Some of the many things we explore:  Biden's preposterous claim that "America is not at war" seemingly oblivious to China President Xi's aggressive global ambitions. And the Administration may be done with the Afghanistan w...

Election Integrity:  Why we don't have it, how we lost it and what to do about it.   In the election of 2020 we saw a dramatic loosening of the chain of custody of ballots. We saw an indiscriminate use of mass mail-in ballots. We saw a verification process junked and pushed aside. And as a consequence, we saw major irregularities in that election.  The result: a waning confidence among voters in t...

The Reconciliation Bill, which Congress is rushing to pass in a matter of days, will push America over the brink into financial and social catastrophe. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hellbent on this as her legacy project to turn the U.S. into a European entitlement state.   No one can explain what is at stake more plainly than economist Steve Moore, my guest on this episode of The Bill Walton Show...

Joe Biden has mandated that businesses with more than 100 employees require every worker to be vaccinated or face weekly testing. It's estimated this will impact over 80 million people or almost two thirds of the country's workforce.   Setting aside his dictatorial and offensive tone, does Joe Biden really have the power to do this or is it that under the guise of "keeping us safe," federal state...

In this Part 2 of my show with John Mauldin, we range far and wide peering into an optimistic future for humanity.   Near term, things look pretty bleak, but when you step back and look at the innovations and technologies that will end up enhancing and prolonging human life, the future holds a lot of promise. Billions of people have been lifted out of poverty in the past 50 years. Some excerpts:  ...

The Afghanistan debacle.   An in-depth look at its implications with Dr Stephen Bryen, Senior Fellow at the American Center for Democracy and Kyle Shideler, Director and Senior Analyst for the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, both with the Center for Security Policy.  So many questions. Why did we leave so precipitously? Who was behind it? Where do we go from here?   Why, when President Tru...

It's on everybody's mind right now. Emotions are raw. What were we doing there? Where we're going to go from here? What this means for the country, and the rest of the world, going forward, since we cannot trust this Administration's leadership to protect America. With me for some plain talk about this are some of my brain trust, the smart people involved with The Bill Walton Show. Today we've got...

After decades of cuts to shipbuilding and maintenance, the United States Navy has been stripped down to a fleet barely larger than it was 100 years ago, in 1916.   Meanwhile, China has dramatically increased its spending on its Navy, as well as on its Air Force, cyberspace and electronic warfare capabilities. Alarmingly, Beijing is building islands in the South China Sea, threatening trade routes...

On June 28th 2021, George Mason University announced its reopening policy related to the COVID-19 for the fall 2021 semester. The policy required all unvaccinated students and staff members - including those who can demonstrate natural immunity from prior COVID-19 infections - to wear masks on campus, physically distance and undergo frequent COVID-19 testing. On July 22, GMU emailed the policy to...

In this episode I'm joined by John Mauldin the best-selling author of Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market and whose "Strategic Investors Conference" is considered among the best events in the business. This is the 21st anniversary of John's newsletter Thoughts from the Frontline aimed at helping individual investors and institutions develop a clearer understa...

My guest this week is economist Steve Moore   Our topic: the economy and how the trillion upon trillion dollar spending orgy in Washington is going to cause irreparable damage to America. "This is an extremely dangerous time for our country. What happens over the course of the next three or four months will have decades worth of repercussions," explains Steve. "The people who are running Washingto...

We are living in a complicated and dangerous time in America. American intelligence and national security should not be part of partisan politics but that is exactly what they've become. "We saw it towards the end of the Obama administration, and the transition into the Trump administration," according to my guest, Ambassador Pete Hoekstra. "The weaponization of intelligence and the intelligence c...

Today we are witnessing a growing threat to our American military. A threat that is capable of doing what no foreign enemy ever could: Fracture the world's greatest armed forces from within, through divisive political indoctrination and controls. That threat is called "wokeness." At its root, "wokeness" imposes the resentful mindset of an extremist few onto society - in this case the American mili...

As COVID cases continue to climb in Tokyo, the nation is preparing to host the world in what may wind up being the most infamous Olympic Games ever. The Bill Walton show team discusses the role the virus is already playing and impacting athletes. There's also the issue of wokeness as members of Team USA are expected to protest the National Anthem, while the media and advertisers will be in their o...

For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a methodical - and largely successful - war to control American institutions. Our universities, K-12 education, the news media, Hollywood, federal government bureaucracies … to name just a few … have all fallen victim to what the Left calls their "long march." During most of that time American business and the military escaped infiltration...

It's becoming quite clear that one of the central aims of Critical Race Theory is to delegitimize and diminish the political and moral achievement that is the United States of America. And with their 1619 Project, the New York Times has weighed in to rewrite American history by deconstructing institutions responsible for our prosperity and our success: free market capitalism and the United States...

Identity politics, and charges of systematic racism and white privilege, pose an existential threat to the American experiment and risk tearing our country apart. In this episode, I talk with Charles Murray - one of America's greatest social scientists - who has now weighed in on this crisis with his latest book: "Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America" In it he argues that we must confr...

America has a problem. Positive attitudes toward communism and socialism are at an all-time high in the United States. Almost 40% of Americans now view them favorably and half of our kids in their 20s say they favor socialism. This demonstrates a stunning lack of knowledge of the evils of communism. In the last century, communism murdered more than 100 million people, and forced billions into Marx...

This show comes at time that this episode's guest, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, calls our "hinge of fate." Our topic is his riveting paper "Surprise Attack: ICBMs and the Real Nuclear Threat" where he lays bare the world's current and future nuclear warfare realities. It's an issue that many simply do not want to think about. As Peter puts it, "when it comes to nuclear weapons, U.S. and Western strategi...

If you think a show about financial regulation is likely to be boring, I ask you to think again. Financial regulations are really about money. And in particular, ordinary Americans' money. Consumer credit and credit cards Student loans  Credit reporting Mortgage finance Fintech  Crypto currencies How small businesses get financed And financial regulations have become yet another primary battlefiel...