The Archive
Nearly three hundred long-form conversations — money, culture, power, and human flourishing, at the length the ideas require.
All Episodes
11/17/2023
Guest(s): Marian L. Tupy
You can’t fix what is wrong in the world if you don’t know what’s actually happening. Polls show that most smart people tend to believe that the state of the world is getting worse. In the United States, almost 3/4 of Americans believe the…
11/08/2023
Guest(s): Robert D. Atkinson
The Chinese Communist Party sees technology innovation as the main battlefield of its industrial policy - and its ultimate weapon for achieving global dominance.
11/01/2023
Guest(s): Winsome Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears sent shock waves across Virginia and the country at large when she pulled off her stunning upset victory in November 2021 and became the first Lieutenant Governor of Virginia who is a woman, the first naturalized female citizen, the first female veteran…
10/24/2023
Guest(s): Frank Gaffney
China is the single most formidable strategic threat the United States has ever faced. It alone has the potential to replace the United States as the world’s hegemon. China is not a typical foreign adversary on another shore, gathering behind its army, aggressive, thinking…
10/17/2023
Guest(s): Michael Pack
In the United States just four networks: Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, and HBOMax spend almost $75 billion every year on film, TV and streaming content. And most of this spending goes toward woke, progressive-themed entertainment. The progressive Left has come to dominate our institutions…
10/12/2023
Guest(s): Amy Chua
In this episode of the Bill Walton Show, my conversation is with Amy Chua, a provocative and original thinker about culture, world politics, and political tribes. Our main topic is her latest book, The Golden Gate, a novel set in the San Francisco Bay…
10/04/2023
Guest(s): Dr. Joshua Yamamoto
Our guest on this episode of Backstage with Bill Walton is Bill’s cardiologist Dr. Joshua Yamamoto who has some startling and optimistic things to say about our heart health.
09/30/2023
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
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…
