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S3 Ep 46Episode 46: How American Medical Insurance has Failed to Keep Pace with Modern Medicine
Did you know there was no health insurance until 1930 and that 90 percent of today's medical care did not even exist in 1950? Yet, health insurance has not evolved to match the innovation or the demand. On this week's edition of "The Bill Walton Show," economic author John Steele Gordon and I discuss how our antiquated health insurance system has utterly failed to keep pace with modern medicine, how our healthcare system became such a tangled, costly mess and where we can find simple, free market solutions.

S3 Ep 45Episode 45: "One Nation Ungovernable" with Wayne Crews.
By some estimates, the cost of government regulation in the U.S. exceeds $2 trillion. An amazing number. And while we're paying a fortune for existing regulations, major new ones are coming out at the rate of 3,000 per year, so fast that the White House can only do a cost-benefit analysis on less than one half of one percent of them. But there's hope. This week on "The Bill Walton Show," Wayne Crews of CEI joins me to explain how to return the U.S. to the path of greater freedom and why "walling off the future" is critical to preserving as much liberty as possible.

S3 Ep 44Episode 44: "China's Three Warfares" with Dr. Stefan Halper and Admiral James Stark
TBWS44 2019_01_10 Halper Stark - China is a mass of contradictions. Intellectual property thief. America's largest trading partner. Home to 476 billionaires. Choked with air and water pollution. A rapidly aging population. And leadership eager to project its national will. China is plowing ahead with what one of my guests, Dr. Stefan Halper, call its "three warfares." What are these and what can the U.S. do about them? Effective confrontation of this threat begins with an understanding that China views itself as the "middle kingdom" and why Beijing will only honor an agreement as long as it's gaining an advantage. Admiral James Stark and Dr. Halper join me to break it all down on "The Bill Walton Show."

S3 Ep 43Episode 43: "Trumponomics" with Steve Moore
TBWS43 2019_01_03 Moore - Ronald Reagan was a winner who believed in the boundless potential of America. Sound familiar? It's one of the reasons Donald Trump is succeeding despite the relentless criticism. He "has a finger on the pulse of millions and millions and millions of Americans." He beat 17 other candidates to get elected and then outsmarted Congress and his own advisers to get a much better tax bill. Learn how Trump gets what he wants on "The Bill Walton Show" with guest Steve Moore.

S2 Ep 42Episode 42: "What Both the Left and the Right Miss About Work in America" with Oren Cass
TBWS42 2018_12_13 Cass - Economic growth is strong but far too many Americans feel left behind and hopeless. This is leading to huge problems that neither political party is ready to address. But author and scholar Oren Cass and I tackle them in my new podcast.

S2 Ep 36Episode 36: "Why Talent Trumps Taxes" with John Tamny and Ralph Benko
Lower taxes and less regulation are great for business, but some are thriving in high-tax states like New York and California. On my new podcast, Ralph Benko explains the "Tamny Axiom". Hint: there's something more valuable in those states than low taxes.

S2 Ep 41Episode 41: Financial Busts: Why Are We Always Surprised, with Alex Pollock
People look to the government to prevent future financial crises and too many trust that politicians and economic experts can create policies to protect us and our 401(k) plans. We shouldn't rely on them. These experts are smart, mostly well-intentioned people but they can't prevent the next crisis. No one can. Why is that? And why is a future crisis inevitable? I discuss these and many other questions with "Finance and Philosophy" author Alex Pollock.

S2 Ep 39Episode 39: How to Restore Power to the American People with Peter Wallison.
TBWS39 2018_10_18 Wallison - Since the days of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, progressives have kept claiming that government bureaucrats know better than the rest of us. But putting more power into the hands of administrative agencies instead of our elected representatives leads government by the people to the road to extinction. American Enterprise Institute's Peter Wallison and I explain why this is such a huge problem on my new podcast.

S2 Ep 35Episode 35: "Cultural hegemony" and why it should concern Americans today.
TBWS35 2018_09_26 Benko Nammo - Why do 53 percent of millennials prefer socialism to capitalism? Probably because they don't know what socialism is and neither does Bernie Sanders and others who embrace it. But how bad can it get? Democrats might be moving further to the left but it's absurd to compare them to Marxists, right? My podcast guest, Ralph Benko, says you might be surprised at how similar their beliefs really are. While Marxism never got much traction in the U.S. his ideas are still infiltrating our society through strategies developed by Antonio Gramsci. How much can the thoughts of an obscure Italian socialist who died in prison almost a century ago really matter today? A lot. They're helping socialists gain power in the U.S. every day by infiltrating many of the institutions that impact our daily lives. Learn just how this is working and how high the stakes are on my new podcast with Ralph Benko and David Nammo.

S2 Ep 38Episode 38: Bill talks with Klon Kitchen and Dean Cheng on Reckoning with China
Over the past forty years, since Deng Xiaoping began his policy of "Reform and Opening," the People's Republic of China (PRC) has evolved from a less developed country to the second largest gross domestic product (GDP) in the world. Over the past 25 years, it has also steadily transformed the People's Liberation Army (PLA) into a force that is capable of influencing regional, and increasingly global, security environments. While the United States can't seem to look beyond the next election cycle, China is far along in its decades-long vision to be the dominant economic and military power in the world On the latest edition of "The Bill Walton Show," I spoke with Heritage Foundation senior research fellows Klon Kitchen and Dean Cheng to size up the China problem and begin sketching out an effective response. Dominating the technology sector is a key part of China's strategy. Listen in to learn more about China's high technology challenge to the United States, and also to its own people. Also take a look at Cheng's Congressional testimony (below). You'll find it sobering. And it describes only some of the reasons that China poses a long-term existential challenge to America.

S2 Ep 37Episode 37: Why The Senate's Ritual Defamation Of Brett Kavanaugh Threatens Every American with Stella Morabito
"Any rational observer of the Democrats' non-stop character assassination machine can see that something is seriously sick in our republic. Instead of allowing Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee were permitted to use trumped-up, hip-pocketed charges to stage a show trial more in tune with a totalitarian system." Stella Morabito, The Federalist

S2 Ep 34Episode 34: Bill Speaks with Haven Pell, Pundificator
The next time you feel the urge to join a major protest to condemn the elite, powerful forces who are supposedly making your lives worse, don't bother. The event is most likely organized by elite, powerful forces who are getting rich off your activism while you don't make a dime or a dime's worth of difference. From Occupy Wall Street to the endless disruptions in the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the increased polarization of America is on full display. The disagreements Americans on key principles like the size and role of government are very real, but rather than seeking common ground, the special interests are exploiting this division at every turn. My friend Haven Pell recently joined me on "The Bill Walton Show" to explain how politics is just another big business. He spent a career in law and finance and is now a self-described "pundificator" in retirement. He says the confirmation hearings are a perfect example of how political activism is often just a means of turning a profit. "These have to be organized and there are people who are very good at it. It's part of the process of the K Street changing public opinion and mostly aiming to get people to fight with each other because that's how you make the most money," said Pell. And we're not going to end polarization anytime soon. Pell recently attended four sessions on how to solve the problem while attending his Harvard reunion. The "solution" for many speakers was groupthink. "I think what I did hear was that there was an easy solution to polarization, which is everybody has to think like me," he said. The main reason politics are getting increasingly polarized is because the government keeps getting involved with more aspects of our lives. In our conversation, I explain how Washington is making demands that needlessly burden us, such as heaping regulations upon local volunteer fire departments it knows nothing about. Businesses are now spending huge sums of money to influence government policy in an effort to make the bureaucracy work for them rather than against them. And when the policies go their way, the profits often dwarf the money spent lobbying. But while we fret about the latest political twists and turns, Pell and I also discuss the illusion that government can solve the biggest problems in our lives. It hasn't, it won't, and it never will. Join us as we explain how politics became big business, why Occupy Wall Street got the wrong address, and why looking for Washington to save us is how we got in this mess in the first place.

S2 Ep 33Episode 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 hard-earned tax dollars to current retirees and running huge deficits. And the problem is only getting worse. Listen to our full discussion on the growing entitlement crisis and how to solve it.

S2 Ep 19Episode 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 to be a drag. You wonder if you're lazy, or is it something else? According to John Tamny, it's something else. John, the editor of Real Clear Markets and the policy director at Freedom Works, spoke with me on The Bill Walton Show about his soon to be released book "The End of Work." "It's not laziness." John believes "it's that you're in the wrong job." There's a lot hand wringing by policy gurus that technology and automation will kill off millions of jobs. Instead, John observes that many more millions of jobs will be created by productivity enhancing technologies and economic growth. Yes, there will be fewer manufacturing and truck driving jobs, but the new jobs created will be far more interesting and engaging. In the movie The Graduate, the magic word was "plastics." Today it's "robots." If you're sick of your job, technology is your friend, not your enemy. Technology driven economic growth is driving an explosion of work choices that make employment seem less like work. Doubtful? Look at some of the careers that were non-existent in the less wealthy world of the past: video gamers, Instagram influencers, dog walkers and policy wonks (one of which John would admit to being). "The historical reality is that a rising tide really does lift all boats. As the U.S. and global economy continues to grow, more and more people will get the chance to pursue the kind of work that most matches their skills, excites their passions, and elevates their unique intelligence." John reminds us, "people pining away for the good old days forget that most people worked long, brutal hours in steel mills and mines." Robust economic growth frees us up from the burden of jobs that require little skill, are not satisfying and leave most people facing Monday as a day of dread. As robots replace humans in certain types of jobs, new, impossible-to-foresee jobs will be created, and less and less people will be going to work. Instead, they'll be pursing their passions. Please listen in on my conversation with John Tamny about the end of work. This is a man who understands the future of human flourishing.

S2 Ep 32Episode 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 on The Bill Walton Show this week. Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University and author of "The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is Waste of Time and Money," described the findings in his book and provided some stark recommendations based on them. First, he said, we need to understand what we're doing in school. There is the romantic version, he said – you go, learn skills employers are interested in, then get jobs with those employers performing those skills. More likely is what he calls the "signaling school of education." You mostly go to school to get certification, "a bunch of seals of approval saying, 'Grade A worker' or 'Grade B worker.'" But, regardless of the grade, you need a seal. The certification, Caplan argues, has become so accessible it has lost its value. Decades ago, a high school diploma was enough for most jobs. Now, thanks to what he labels "credential inflation," a bachelor's degree is often not enough. That's why he devotes a chapter in the book to the premise that we need a lot less education. And, failing that, we need to spend a lot less money for what we're getting now. To the first point, he divides students into four categories – excellent, good, fair and poor. Parents, he said, need to honestly assess, or have others do so, which category their children fall into. If the answer is "poor," trying to get into college and major in math or science or management may not be wise, but pursuing skilled trades may be. Wherever you fall, the emphasis should be on maximizing the investment. To the second, he says the main feedback he gets from education leaders is that few say the system works well, but many say, "Give us more money and then we can do the job." Caplan says we need to turn that logic on its head and cut funding for public schools by 30 percent. Education officials will demand "an exact blueprint" for where to cut. "And I say, 'You know, there's a strange double standard here. When people say we need more money for schools, people don't usually say, 'No way until you give us an exact blueprint of how you plan to spend the money." But "when you say 'less money,' that's where people say, "I can't even consider your idea until you write an encyclopedia about where every dime of budget cuts are going to come from." And where would Caplan cut? For starters, he would limit or eliminate foreign language classes. "Almost no American adult uses a foreign language," Caplan said. "It's just a fact. Second, whether or not you agree with that, virtually no American adult even claims to have learned to speak a foreign language very well in school, despite the fact that it's standard to do two or three years. So, essentially, you're teaching people something that they almost never use and where almost no one even claims to have learned it, despite the fact that you're putting a lot of years and classroom material on it. To me, that's crazy." Go after the shibboleths as well, Caplan urges, and be thorough. Some kids are not as bright as others, and schools and parents need to rethink expecting the same things from those kids. To claims that there's nothing more important than education, he says, "How about food? Of course food is more important than our children's education." One thing does bother Caplan. Economists who don't specialize in this area hear his ideas and want to learn more. Those fresh out of the education experience find his message spot on. But education experts are another story. "It's sort of a weird case where the people who know the most disagree with me the most, and the people on the other hand who have sort of an intermediate level of knowledge are often very much in agreement with me. "So I'm like, 'Gee, the people who know the most think I'm wrong, so maybe they know something I don't know." Or maybe they have not let go of those shibboleths.

S2 Ep 31Episode 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 know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." Sun Tzu, The Art of War So how does Donald Trump measure up to this ancient adage? His supporters, and count me among them, believe he knows that Putin is KGB and is simply taking his measure. Trump haters believe he's an idiot and that Putin is playing him for a fool. There's no doubt President Trump made a mess of his press conference in Finland, but let's not get distracted from other critical truths about the way the Trump Administration is dealing with Russia. The predictable partisan media clatter utterly ignores the fact that Trump is being tough on Russia. His unconventional approach to foreign policy is working, and engaging a bad guy like Putin can be a good thing for the U.S. if Trump negotiates from a position of real strength. To take a closer look at Trump and Putin, I asked Herman Pirchner, American Foreign Policy Council Founder and CEO, to join me on The Bill Walton Show. Herman has visited Russia 70 times in the last four decades and has a keen grasp of Russia's motives. He believes Trump's decisions to bomb Syria, arm Ukraine, and abandon the Iran nuclear deal prove Trump is anything but Putin's lapdog. "To people that were worried about Trump's statements, I think you have to balance themwith the actions that he's taken, which have been tough. You have to balance also with the people that he's appointed. John Bolton, the National Security Advisor, is known to be tough on Russia, as is Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense James Mattis," said Pirchner. Trump's critics haven't offered up many policy disagreements on Russia. Instead, the hand-wringing and hysteria among foreign policy elites seems to boil down to this: Trump is not doing foreign policy in the same way they've done it for decades. Can't you hear them saying, "It is simply not done that way. Trump just doesn't get that it's far better to fail the way we did, conventionally, than it is to succeed unconventionally." Of course Trump's unconventional approach carries risks, but it's also yielding unprecedented results. "Business as usual isn't going to cut it. We had a lot of Presidents that had business as usual with North Korea. Did they get Kim to the table? They did not. We don't know what the final outcome will be, but I note that we've seen a stoppage of nuclear testing in Korea. We've seen a stoppage of the missile launching," said Pirchner. But still, we're dealing with Vladimir Putin and every molecule of his being is KGB. He's a shred and ruthless figure. The joke, if you can call it that, is that his main criticism of the mass-murderer Joseph Stalin is that Stalin could have killed far fewer than 20 million of his people to maintain his reign of terror. "If you can kill a select hundred in gruesome fashion and publicize it, everybody else will be scared enough to get in line. And so far, that's worked for Putin," said Pirchner. But Putin's projection of power can be successfully countered. The Reagan era proved that American strength and American resolve are mighty bulwarks against Russian aggression. That's the approach Trump must take into future negotiations with Putin and in making sure any agreements are honored. "When you cut the deal, it's very important to understand that Russia, given past history, may break it. You should confront Putin by saying, 'We understand there may be a temptation for you to break it here or there. If you do, this is what's going to happen, and happen quickly.' "If he understands that we're serious about it and we follow through, then I think he has a much better chance of staying," said Pirchner. Trump's critics will tell you he is ceding the world stage to Putin and Russia is rising as the dominant player. That's rubbish. Our economy is ten times larger than Russia's. So is our military spending. Russia is, as always, beset by seemingly intractable economic, demographic and cultural problems. The oligarchs are stashing their money in other countries in case the system collapses. Putin's own number is believed to be $50 to $100 billion. "If you want to know what a country's elite, and not just Russia, but any country's elite, thinks about the future of their country, look what they do with their money, look what they do with their children. There's practically nobody around Putin today, that doesn't have multiple passports, foreign bank accounts, probably have a relative sitting on their money in foreign countries." "There's no rule of law that they feel comfortable will protect their assets or their physical well-being inside of Russia, and they're not completely sure what the future of Russia as a country is. So, they take their wealth and their family outside of Russia so they have a place to la

S2 Ep 16Episode 16: Football and Family with Jimmy Kemp and Lamaar Thomas
Football and Family with Jimmy Kemp and Lamaar Thomas

S2 Ep 18The Three Languages of Politics with Arnold Kling
The Three Languages of Politics with Arnold Kling

S2 Ep 21Episode 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, although the difference between the sounds made during the warmup and the actual performance were almost as dramatic. Instead, there was deep breathing, sighs big enough to be felt in every bone in the body, and burbling. Yes, burbling.

S2 Ep 19The 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 to be a drag. You wonder if you're lazy, or is it something else? According to John Tamny, it's something else. John, the editor of Real Clear Markets and the policy director at Freedom Works, spoke with me on The Bill Walton Show about his soon to be released book "The End of Work." "It's not laziness." John believes "it's that you're in the wrong job." There's a lot hand wringing by policy gurus that technology and automation will kill off millions of jobs. Instead, John observes that many more millions of jobs will be created by productivity enhancing technologies and economic growth. Yes, there will be fewer manufacturing and truck driving jobs, but the new jobs created will be far more interesting and engaging. In the movie The Graduate, the magic word was "plastics." Today it's "robots." If you're sick of your job, technology is your friend, not your enemy. Technology driven economic growth is driving an explosion of work choices that make employment seem less like work. Doubtful? Look at some of the careers that were non-existent in the less wealthy world of the past: video gamers, Instagram influencers, dog walkers and policy wonks (one of which John would admit to being). "The historical reality is that a rising tide really does lift all boats. As the U.S. and global economy continues to grow, more and more people will get the chance to pursue the kind of work that most matches their skills, excites their passions, and elevates their unique intelligence." John reminds us, "people pining away for the good old days forget that most people worked long, brutal hours in steel mills and mines." Robust economic growth frees us up from the burden of jobs that require little skill, are not satisfying and leave most people facing Monday as a day of dread. As robots replace humans in certain types of jobs, new, impossible-to-foresee jobs will be created, and less and less people will be going to work. Instead, they'll be pursing their passions. Please listen in on my conversation with John Tamny about the end of work. This is a man who understands the future of human flourishing.

S2 Ep 30Episode 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 incapable of maintaining them efficiently. Drivers pay tens of billions of dollars in gasoline taxes every year and our infrastructure problems only seem to get worse. Instead of taxpayers forking over trillions of dollars in new legislation to address the problem, why don't we trust in private sector solutions, both to ease congestion on our roads and to finance their ongoing maintenance through robust competition? Why not allow private companies to run and care for our roads in the model of utilities like power, water, and gas companies? There are some perils with this approach, as we'll see, but the concept is worthy of serious consideration. No one understands the fruitlessness of the status quo or thinks about practical solutions to these problems more than Bob Poole, founder and director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation. He has advised nearly every president on transportation issues over the past 35 years and is also the author of "Rethinking America's Highways: A 21st Century Vision for Better Infrastructure." It's an issue that impacts all of us every day. Join us as explore solutions to end the political and literal gridlock.

S2 Ep 23Episode 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 China, as the communist government there clamps down on freedom and ramps up its economic and territorial ambitions in its quest to become the dominant player on the world stage. A big part of that ambition is predicated on forced technology transfers or rampant and outright theft of intellectual property - largely developed in the United States. It's the ransom required for American companies to do business in China. We don't have a coherent plan to stop them from stealing our technological superiority. And China's ambitions don't stop here. They're seeking to build a sort of Silk Road 2.0 called One Belt One Road and not just for commercial purposes but for their geopolitical ambitions. America's visceral free-trade philosophy leaves us extremely vulnerable to the Chinese global strategies. Listen in as Heritage Foundation scholar Riley Walters and American Foreign Policy Council Founder Herman Pirchner join me to examine these and other major threats and how the U.S. can deal with them effectively.

S2 Ep 29Episode 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 methods they rely on today have not changed since the 1930's. Over 60 countries – including all the developed nations - have modernized their systems but ours is stuck in the past thanks to politics and special interest turf wars. To find out why, I asked Bob Poole. Bob is America's foremost expert on private sector solutions to transportation issues. He's advised virtually every presidential administration since Ronald Reagan's and is the founder of and director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation. A better, safer air traffic control system could be right at our fingertips and the controllers themselves want those changes to happen. But progress is in a holding pattern until we demand that Congress act. Enough is enough. Join us as we discuss common sense solutions to this long-neglected problem.

S2 Ep 28The 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 children to succeed as adults. In fact, the system we have now was never designed or intended to reach all children. Look into a classroom and it looks pretty much the same way it looked in the 19th century. The results have been catastrophic. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, two-thirds of all students fail to meet grade-level proficiency in any subject. Not math. Not civics. Not reading, history or geography. The numbers are far worse for minority students, of whom only one in six are meeting grade-level proficiency. It's obviously long past time we did something about it, but why is it so hard to change things and what changes would actually work to prepare every single student for a career they can be passionate about? For answers, I turned to Center for Education Reform President Jeanne Allen and my wife, Sarah, who served as CEO of Language Odyssey, an education venture we created together to provide Spanish and French language programs at schools around the country. Join us as we explore ideas such as rewarding competency over numbers, inspiring young people's academic passions online and in the school curriculum, and doing our best to make sure the best possible teacher is in every classroom.

S2 Ep 27It'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 they proclaimed that China is now realizing its dream of national rejuvenation, and it's grand strategy to restore its Empire. This move only adds fuel to mounting evidence of Chinese economic and military ambitions that we've been learning about from Cambridge University Professor Stefan Halper and Pat Mulloy, a longtime member of the bipartisan China Commission. Listen in as we discuss China's emerging empire, the economic and territorial ambitions that go with it, and President Xi's increased monitoring and repression of the Chinese people to stamp out any hint of dissent.

S2 Ep 24The 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 stimulating conversation with National Affairs Editor Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and independent scholar and economist Arnold Kling, I'm learning that there are some pretty fundamental cultural trends that we need to understand if we want to get at the roots of our frustrations. In part, they lie in what Yuval calls the "politics of nostalgia." For Arnold, the author of The Three Languages of Politics, our speech is exacerbating America's political divide. Join me for this very important conversation about how our politics got to where they are today and how subsidiarity, a simple concept with a big name, is a major part of the solution.

S2 Ep 26Markets, 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 proclaims. There's a right way and a wrong way, and he's not going to get there the way he's going. "We need to stop villainizing people based on ideology and I would say, 'Hey, I agree with you, I don't want the poor to be poor and I don't want the rich to be able to exploit' but the question is the how. And I don't think he knows how." "What is the way to make the poor rich and raise the incomes of everyone? This is a real concern that we all should have. He's right about that. But the how is very different. To me, what economics demonstrates, is that the past 250 years of human history have showed us is that markets empower ordinary people," said Anne. Anne is a professor at the Institute for World Politics and George Mason University. She is Vice President of Economic Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics and is author of "Counting the Cost: Christian Perspectives on Capitalism." Listen here as Dr. Anne Bradley and I explain why markets lead to prosperity and a better life while government intrusion creates poverty and misery.

S2 Ep 25China 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, and a complete disregard for international law and customs. How did this happen? It turns out to be a toxic combination of long national embarrassment, Confucian thought, and terrible missteps by the U.S. and others. To give us a much-needed Chinese history lesson, I brought in former Commerce Department official Pat Mulloy, who also served as a commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and Stefan Halper, a professor at Cambridge University who worked in the Nixon and Ford administrations. Before we can chart an effective path forward, we have to understand where China has been, what it wants, and how it plans to get there. Listen here for a great discussion on this vitally important topic.

Steve Moore and Veronique de Rugy talk China and Trade with Bill
Steve Moore and Veronique de Rugy talk China and Trade with Bill

S2 Ep 22Foreign Trade with Ambassador Terry Miller and John Tamny
Foreign Trade with Ambassador Terry Miller and John Tamny

S1 Ep 17Life After the NFL with Lamaar Thomas and Maureen O'Donnell
Life After the NFL with Lamaar Thomas and Maureen O'Donnell

S1 Ep 14Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with Adam Michel and Rachel Greszler
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with Adam Michel and Rachel Greszler

S1 Ep 15Block Chain Technology, Tax Policy and the FCC's Local Media Rule-Making with George Gilder and Hance Haney
Block Chain Technology, Tax Policy and the FCC's Local Media Rule-Making with George Gilder and Hance Haney

S1 Ep 12Republic For Which We Stand with John B. Henry, Bill Nitze and Bruce Fein
Republic For Which We Stand with John B. Henry, Bill Nitze and Bruce Fein

S1 Ep 11The Education Debate with Jeanne Allen and Johnnie Taylor
The Education Debate with Jeanne Allen and Johnnie Taylor

S1 Ep 10Philanthropy and Civil Society with J.P. DeGance and Leah Hughey
Philanthropy and Civil Society with J.P. DeGance and Leah Hughey

S1 Ep 9Taxing and Spending with Romina Boccia and Adam Michel
Taxing and Spending with Romina Boccia and Adam Michel

S1 Ep 8The Republican Party with Al Regnery and Matt Schlapp
The Republican Party with Al Regnery and Matt Schlapp

S1 Ep 7The Bill Walton Story with John Tamny
The Bill Walton Story

S2 Ep 6The Father of Supply Side Economics with Arthur Laffer
The Father of Supply Side Economics with Arthur Laffer

S1 Ep 5The Pursuit of Happiness with Jimmy Kemp and Ralph Benko
The Pursuit of Happiness with Jimmy Kemp and Ralph Benko

S1 Ep 4Achieving 4% Economic Growth with Steve Moore and John Tamny
Achieving 4% Economic Growth with Steve Moore and John Tamny

S1 Ep 3The Power of Social Media with Mike Thompson and Beverly Halberg
The Power of Social Media with Mike Thompson and Beverly Halberg

S1 Ep 2Heritage Scholars' Take on Today's Pressing Economic Issues with Jack Spencer and Norbert Michel
Heritage Scholars' Take on Today's Pressing Economic Issues with Jack Spencer and Norbert Michel

S1 Ep 1Fixing our Education System with Jeanne Allen
Fixing our Education System with Jeanne Allen