Big Ideas Book Club with Steve Hilton Steve Hilton

In this episode, author and longtime friend Nellie Bowles joins us to discuss America’s current social and political climate. Nellie is one of the founders of The Free Press and she has recently written a book titled: “Morning After the Revolution”, which is a phenomenal work that breaks down the madness we have been witnessing across all sectors of our society. We discuss the revolution that's happened within liberalism and how the gap between progressives and liberals continues to grow. Then, we touch on the mainstream media’s attempts to deliberately memory hole extreme progressive beliefs surrounding BLM, COVID, and the climate. You won’t want to miss it!

Economist at Oxford University and King’s College London, Daniel Susskind meets with me to discuss his new book, Growth: A History and a Reckoning. He discusses how we need more economic growth and how he believes we ought to do that, diving into climate change, technological progress, inequality, and protecting the things we care about. Is GDP a narrow way of measuring economic growth? What does it mean that you “manage what you measure” and how does it apply to policy? There are moral questions that make a major impact on today’s topic. This episode has wonderful insight you won’t want to miss.

Author and CSO of the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein joins us to discuss his book called Check Your Financial Privilege: Inside the Global Bitcoin Revolution. According to the statistics, anyone born into a reserve currency like the dollar or euro has more financial privilege than 89% of the world population. Gladstein details the explosive rise of Bitcoin over the last 15 years. Then, he not only explains why Bitcoin is a powerful tool for people subjected to different authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, but also how it can be a real tool for freedom for the everyday person. His message is a huge wake up call to the meaning of wealth in the West and the importance of financial privacy and encryption. You won’t want to miss it!

Joel Kotkin, Sen. Gloria Romero, and Soledad Ursúa are the authors of a report called “El Futuro es Latino”, or, The future is Latino. While this report is not a book in the conventional sense, but it is a piece of work with findings that are extremely important. “El Futuro es Latino”, which was co-sponsored by my organization Golden Together, details the Latino experience in California and why Latinos are suffering when it comes to upward mobility and the California dream. Latinos are now the largest group in California, being 40 % of the total population. From education to housing policies, these authors explain how Latinos are bearing the brunt of California’s harsh political climate. This is an episode you won’t want to miss.

The former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, Liz Truss joins today’s episode to discuss her book “Ten Years to Save the West”. Liz and I discuss our similar experiences working at the highest levels of the British government where the machinations of the global Left run rampant. She warns how freedom is at risk, due to the ever-expanding “administrative state”. Ideas that would save Britain and deliver a greater America are not being implemented because there are too many people with a vested interest in keeping things the way they are, especially in the child healthcare sector. Lastly, we discuss Britain’s recent “creation” of a Supreme Court and the damaging effects it has had on the market and policies.

Founder of the American Conservation Coalition, Benji Backer, joins today's episode to discuss his debut book, “The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future”. Benji and I discuss how conservation and environmentalism, at their roots, are conservative ideas. There are two arguments when addressing climate change, and it’s either “doomerism” or “denial”, but conservative principles are key to climate solutions that actually work. Fossil fuels and nuclear energy can coincide with windmills and solar panels, and both liberal and conservative approaches can meet in the middle to conserve our environment. Benji and I discuss how it is time to change the narrative around environmentalism and climate change in the conservative space. This is a fascinating episode you won’t want to miss!