The Bill Walton Show

Episode 33: Entitlements aka Promises That Governments Can't Keep with Jim Agresti

Social Security is not secure at all. Many people think the government is setting aside the money they pay in taxes and it’s waiting for them when they retire. It’s not. The government is giving your…

00:34:22 | Thu 30 Aug 2018

Episode 19: “Are You Lazy or is it Your Job?” with John Tamny

Sunday evening comes around and you wish the weekend had just one more day. You are just not feeling it. Monday morning, whether you’ll be sitting at a desk or outside on the construction site looks …

00:36:14 | Thu 16 Aug 2018

Episode 32: The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money with Bryan Caplan

It’s long seemed obvious that if we want to truly fix education, actually make it work for the 21st century, we need to kill a stockyard full of our sacred cows. And we had just the man for the job o…

00:35:29 | Mon 06 Aug 2018

Episode 31: Chill. Trump Knows Putin is KGB. Expect Some Unconventional Success with Russia - with Herman Pirchner

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you kno…

00:32:10 | Mon 23 Jul 2018

Episode 16: Football and Family with Jimmy Kemp and Lamaar Thomas

Football and Family with Jimmy Kemp and Lamaar Thomas

00:39:36 | Mon 16 Jul 2018

The Three Languages of Politics with Arnold Kling

00:35:18 | Mon 09 Jul 2018

Episode 21: What Acting Teaches You About You with Leigh Wilson Smiley

It was the 21st episode of The Bill Walton Show, but there were a lot of firsts. For the first time, we warmed up for a show. It was not the cacophony of listening to an orchestra prepare to perform…

00:30:33 | Mon 02 Jul 2018

The End of Work with John Tamny

Sunday evening comes around and you wish the weekend had just one more day. You are just not feeling it. Monday morning, whether you’ll be sitting at a desk or outside on the construction site looks …

00:36:17 | Fri 29 Jun 2018

Episode 30: America's Crumbling Highways with Bob Poole

Famed economist Milton Friedman called America’s highway system a “socialist enterprise” and he was right. America’s roads are in desperate need of repair and the federal government is clearly incapa…

00:23:39 | Wed 20 Jun 2018

Episode 23: China's Led by Engineers, the U.S. by Lawyers: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

How would you react if the government put facial recognition cameras everywhere and kept tabs on your every move - right down to to how many squares of toilet paper you are using? It's happening in C…

00:37:26 | Tue 12 Jun 2018

Episode 29: America’s Antiquated Air Traffic Control System with Bob Poole

Did you know when you text someone that you’ve landed at the airport, you’re using far more advanced technology than your plane’s air traffic controller? It’s a shameful fact that some of the method…

00:22:55 | Wed 30 May 2018

The Schools We Need -with Jeanne Allen and Sarah Walton

America’s K-12 education system and institutions were designed in a different era for a different society, and we are at grave risk today from this obsolete system, which fails to prepare all childre…

00:38:42 | Tue 15 May 2018

It’s Time to Get Serious About China with Stefan Halper and Pat Mulloy

Just this year, the Chinese Communist Party held an election in the Great Hall of the People where Xi Jinping was voted “President for Life.” The vote was 2,958 for and six against. With this vote th…

00:45:10 | Tue 08 May 2018

The Politics of Nostalgia with Yuval Levin and Arnold Kling

Every day, we’re confronted by headlines that reveal the ever-widening chasm between left and right in America. What’s driving this hyper- polarization? And are there any solutions? Thanks to a sti…

00:40:39 | Tue 01 May 2018

Markets, Terrorism, and Flourishing with Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley

My guest this week, Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley, the free market economist and moral philosopher, wants to sit down with Bernie Sanders over a cup of coffee to talk about how to achieve the goals he pr…

00:39:53 | Tue 24 Apr 2018

China Then and Now: From a Century of Humiliation to a $4 Trillion Trade Surplus with Pat Mulloy and Stefan Halper

“You're looking at a country which is the most radical actor on the global stage since the French Revolution.” China is plowing forward with an agenda of economic aggression, empirical ambitions, an…

00:43:50 | Tue 17 Apr 2018