09/30/2023

Episode 246: “What Really Happens at Burning Man: An Insider’s Story” with Kenny Reff

Guest(s): Kenny Reff

Once a year, roughly 70,000 “Burners” gather two hours north of Reno in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary city “dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance.” Burners declare that Burning Man isn’t a “festival.” Rather, “it’s a city…

09/21/2023

Episode 245: “Climate Catastrophe, or Simply the Weather?” with Jay Richards

Guest(s): Jay Richards

In this episode I’m joined by Jay W. Richards, Ph.D. to talk about “climate change.” We are both skeptical about the claims that man is causing abnormal changes in the climate, mainly by adding CO₂ to the atmosphere, and that we need a political…

09/13/2023

Episode 244: How Financial Regulators Have Become a (Progressive) Law Unto Themselves” with Todd Zywicki

Guest(s): Todd Zywicki

In this episode I’m talking with Todd Zywicki, the George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law in the Antonin Scalia Law School and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center.  He is also one of the most engaging and clear thinkers about…

08/31/2023

Episode 243: Capitalism’s Promise: Essentially Infinite Resources and Human Flourishing with George Gilder and John Tamny

Guest(s): George Gilder

I’m talking in this episode with the upbeat and visionary George Gilder, one of America’s leading economic and technological thinkers, and the author of the groundbreaking books, Wealth and Poverty, Knowledge and Power, The Scandal of Money and now:  Life after Capitalism: The Meaning…

08/21/2023

Episode 242: The Surgeon General Now Wants To Cure Your Loneliness: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? with Stella Morabito and Mark Tapscott

Guest(s): Stella Morabito

In one of our most talked about episodes, Stella Morabito came on the show in May to talk about her book The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. We talked about the dangerous tyranny of…

08/15/2023

Episode 241: A Victory for Free Speech with Jenin Younes

Guest(s): Jenin Younes

“America needs to come to terms with the reality and scale of the assault on free speech. Our government has established a vast system of censorship. By keeping it largely secret, it has been able to exert unconstitutional control over medical, scientific and political speech, suppressing…

08/01/2023

Episode 238: “When ‘Free Trade’ Does More Harm Than Good” with Robert Lighthizer

Guest(s): Robert Lighthizer

For regular listeners, you know I like to take on complicated subjects, and try to make clear what’s at stake for all of us. In this episode the Bill Walton Show we take a another deep dive into one of the most complicated and…

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