On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, Mark emphasized that books endure far beyond radio, podcasts, or TV. While he’s often discussed liberty, unalienable rights, and tyranny, he’s only touched on power indirectly. Now, he’s completed his latest book, On Power. This book is different than any other book Mark has written. On Power is an analysis of how power shapes history. Power is more than a word; it determines whether you are free or not. It’s a subject all of us deal with every day. It’s a matter that can be discussed psychologically, ideologically, and philosophically. Also, Hamas must be destroyed, and Iran must be prevented from acquiring nuclear weapons at all costs. These views are mainstream, not neo-con views. America must always be protected, and isolationists are a threat. We cannot allow nuclear proliferation. The release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander by Hamas was positive, but Qatar’s dangerous regime uses oil money to fund terrorists and influence politicians. Qatar has been implicated in supporting anti-U.S. terrorist activities, including providing financial and logistical backing to groups like Hamas and the Taliban. Despite its public image as a U.S. ally, Qatar’s actions, such as hosting terrorist leaders and funding extremist networks, undermine American interests. Later, pharmaceutical prices are higher in the U.S. because companies invest heavily in drug research and development. To recover costs, they charge more where patents originate. Other countries copy these drugs, selling them cheaper. U.S. companies aren’t overcharging; they’re being undercut by foreign replication.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Shush. Busy weekend. For all of America, for the president. For the prime minister of Israel, for the media, most of it fake. Well, plenty of time to get into that. And many domestic issues, too. But before we do. Every couple of years. Not because I have to. Because I want to. I decided to sit down and write a book. You know, books where they use the audio version, what have you. They last long beyond beyond a radio show or a TV show. Your podcast or any of the sort. They just do. And a book provides an opportunity for the writer to express things and research things. That it’s impossible to do on a radio or television show. No. There’s different things that you can express and explain in real time on a radio and a television show or a podcast. When you write a book, if you write a good book, you write a book that’s going to be lasting. That’s not just a quick hit and grift and so forth. It doesn’t work that way. Writing a book is very solitary. And I’ve told you before, when I write a book, I think of you. That is what you might be interested in. What I feel Maybe you should know. It’s a completely different format. It’s a completely different approach. Now, everybody’s brain is complicated. It kicks into gear one way when you’re at home and you relaxed, kicks into gear. Another way when you’re at work, kicks into gear, yet it a different way when you’re, let’s say, going to school or reading books as an example. It’s the way it is. People are not one dimensional, they’re multidimensional, you’re multi-dimensional. Whatever you do, it doesn’t matter. You’re multidimensional. And you know what I mean? So I’ve written. You know what? I think we can. I think ten books I’ve written. Ten books. On a myriad of subjects. The first book I ever wrote was about the Supreme Court Men in Black. I didn’t want to call it Men in Black, The publisher at the time, Regnery insisted on, and I said, Well, that’s the name of a movie, The Men in Black. Even though Sandra Day O’Connor was on the court and last time I understood she was a woman, I wanted to call judicial tyranny, but it didn’t matter. It was the same thing. The next book I wrote I didn’t intend to write was called Rescuing Sprite, But our Wonderful Dog and Dogs and. The event of having to put him to sleep and the impact it had on our family. The third book I wrote turned out to be a blockbuster liberty and tyranny. It was a book I wanted to write for 20 years. And it came out simultaneously with the Tea Party movement. One fueled the other. I won’t go down the long list. The last book I wrote, of course, is The Democrat Party Hates America. It’s the longest book I’ve ever written. Most 100,000 words, give or take. But the book before that, during the pandemic was called American Marxism, a very, very important book. Which sold almost 1.4 million copies. You know, it’s very interesting. The public publishing industry is very flat right now. Very flat. Fewer and fewer people want to read. The audio element of books is doing quite well. People are in their cars or their. You’re busy. Maybe have to go do something that bores you and put the plugs in your ears and you listen or you have a long drive during the holiday. Myself, I like to have a book or hardback book. That’s just me. Okay, I got to thinking. I’ve written books about liberty. I’ve written books about philosophy. One overlaps the other, as they must really their books that flow Syria at them intentionally so. So if you put aside the the first two books, Men in Black and Rescuing Sprite. All the other books sort of fit like a puzzle. As I said, the last book was The Democrat Party Hates America. Another was a boycott of the book at several retail outlets. And that’s too bad. Because it’s everything you ever wanted to know about the Democrat Party. But I got to thinking, and when I get to thinking, I keep a little pad here and there and I write little notes to myself. I got to thinking. You and I together. We’ve explored liberty. We’ve explored on an animal rights. But as I got to thinking, I realized. This is crucially important. Liberty and online rights. That’s her declaration. For many people, that’s our faith. But when I write about liberty and when I write about unalienable rights. I often love to talk about tyranny. Crucially important again. Liberty, rights and tyranny. And I’ve talked around another subject. I realized over the decades I’ve written around this subject. I realized over the decades and those of you who listen to this program and have a very keen ear will probably know what I’m talking about. Those of you who watch Life, Liberty and Live In or our Blaze digital program will probably know what I’m talking about. It’s a word. It’s a subject that each and every one of you have to deal with each and every day. It’s a matter that can be discussed psychologically, ideologically, philosophically. And in the context of the civil society, in the context of politics and government. What is this word? It’s power. Power. And so the book is called On Power. On power. And I think it’s going to be very fascinating and intriguing to many, many, many of you listen to this program. I broke it into six. Basic chapters, and I decided to write this book a little differently. It’s the most concise book I’ve ever written. Which means it was much harder to write. It has the least amount of second party or third party quotes in it, even though there are some in there, because they want to always give credit to sources. If I got an idea or thought from another source, I believe that’s the ethical and moral thing to do. But there’s not hundreds of notes. I spoke to the publisher and I said, I want the book to be more compact, easier to carry, put in a purse, put in a glove compartment. So we did that. I said I want the book to be under $28 because $28.30 $2 is what everybody is charging for books. I said, I don’t want to do that. So it’s $26.99. The hard, hard cover. You’ll be able to get audio too, if you wish. And I said, I want the cover to be basic. Like a classic old school cover. And that’s what it is. And when I write a book, I throw everything I can into the book. You know, when I wrote American Marxism, that was a extremely difficult book to write. And so, you know, and I’ll get into the substance in a minute. I’m not allowed to tell you all about the substance, but I always kind of diss the publisher and give you more information than I’m supposed to. And I’m going to do that tonight. And in some of the preceding weeks, what happens? I write the book. I write it. Not 14 times. I read it once. I don’t outline it except when I start writing it. Then I have my thoughts. Then I outline the chapters as I go along. And I want to make sure one paragraph integrates with the next one chapter, integrates with the next. And so you have a book that makes some sense. And those of us who are authors, the processes you write it when you send it to the publisher, and they’ve two types of editors, a book editor who looks at it, reads it, make suggestions, has thoughts, as you might want to think about this or that. I’ve had wonderful. I have a wonderful editor. And then you have copy editors, you know, go through and maybe you should capitalize this and maybe you should put it in present tense rather than past. So after you write, it goes through all that and it goes through three or four rounds of that. And I’ll tell you as an example, footnote in in American Marxism, there’s a group called the Frankfurt Institute, a communist group that was in Berlin. And the Frankfurt Institute is mentioned many times in American Marxism, once it’s called the Franklin Institute. Apparently one of the copy editors changed it. But the book is you know, I don’t read it over and over and over and over again. I didn’t catch that. And so you’re have critics who don’t. Accomplished very much. He spent a lot of time on the Internet. And their idea of criticizing somebody is attacking them rather than on a substantive and intellectual and scholarly level. And so, like last week, one of them from a magazine called The American Conservative, which is nothing but a sort of a Huey Long kind of thuggish magazine with mostly Neanderthals who spew the same stuff. And this guy, it looks like he he walked into a propeller. But Mark Levin said Franklin Institute. What kind of scholars? He says, Franklin. Look, if you don’t put your chain out there, if you don’t put your neck out there, if you don’t do things, then you’re never going to be criticized. But if you do, then you’ll be attacked. It’s the nature of the beast. It’s okay. It’s okay. This book is very different than any other book I’ve ever written. It is very readable. And yet much of it is my own independent thinking and reasoning and trying to understand this, this word power. And so the first chapter is called On Power. The second chapter is called Negative Power. So to the best of my knowledge, I have created this idea of negative power, and I express what that means in a full chapter, followed by, of course, the third chapter is on positive power. What does that mean? The four chapters on language, Positive language in negative language. Fifth chapters on rights. In the last chapters on liberty. So power, negative power, positive power, language rights, liberty. You’re thinking you’re in the car. Maybe you’re sitting at the dinner table. What the hell does this have to do with me? Has everything to do with here. And that’s why I picked this topic after thinking about it. It has everything to do with you. This is what determines if you’re free or you’re enslaved. If you have liberty or not. So I want to delve into it just a little bit. When we come back, more than my publisher would want me to. And just so you’re aware, a couple hours ago, it’s, quote unquote, a populated on Amazon, meaning the site for the book and the information. It’s all now on Amazon.com. It’s also on most of the other retailers sites as well. Takes a significant process to do this, apparently. The audio isn’t up there yet, but it will be up there in the next 24 hours. But the Kindle is the hardback copy. So I want to talk about it. You can check it out on your own. We’ve linked to it on every single one of our platforms. And on the mother site, Mark Levine show dot com to make it as easy as possible for you to take a look. As easy as possible to take a look. And when you pre-order a book. That means depending what, how, how early you preorder, you’re the first to get the book. When it comes out, it lands on your doorstep the moment it is released in the order of the people who order it. And you’ll get substantial discounts that aren’t showing right now. But during the course of the next few months before it’s released on January excuse me, on July 29, if it’s a 35, 40, 49%, you’ll get that deduction. But I want to get into the substance a little bit when we come back. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
It’s a very short segment, so we’ll pick it up after the break. But, you know, there’s a little bit of a nerd in me. I get excited about this sort of thing. I get excited when I have these ideas. I get excited when I think things through and I feel like I have very interesting. Take a look at the great philosophers going back hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. I don’t pretend to be anything like them. I wish I were. But I have my own take on my own view of these things, and then I try to apply them in a way that makes sense and that might intrigue you or interest you. This issue on power, that’s the name of the book on Amazon on power, is something that is ubiquitous, that surrounds us. We exercise it or it’s exercised against us, particularly by politicians and the media and the government all throughout our culture. This book is not about psychology, but it involves psychology. And I thought it’s time that we have an open national discussion about this. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
You know, ladies and gentlemen, I have to confess before I proceed here that I do get paid to write a book. I don’t have to write a book. But I don’t write a book to get paid. I could retire from radio, TV, blaze and book writing right this moment and have with my wife and family a very, very full retirement. I don’t do any of this for money. I don’t have to. That’s not to brag. That’s to explain to them when I do this. My motivations have nothing to do with that. My motivations have to do with exploring who we are exploring. What it means to have the best of the civil societies. To have a full life of liberty and opportunity. To think about these things and to share them with you. So the practical impact is. It has to affect our communities, our neighborhoods, our body politic. You and I together have had an enormous impact in 20 years on this country. Doesn’t mean we can save it doesn’t mean we can’t. But together, whether it was the Tea Party or other movements, and even with Donald Trump, there are people out there who praise themselves and pat them on themselves in the head. Self-aggrandizing. But you did it. You did it. And we still have skeptics who who admires mine. Listen to this show may not be Donald Trump fans. I understand. Now, it’s interesting about this book. It’s not about current events, but it applies current events. From time to time. This isn’t paint by the numbers. This isn’t some ghost writer writing this. This is me. Now I start the book off explaining what I’m doing. In the very first chapter, many have written about the and debated the issue of power cloning the ancients and modern philosophers and scholars and statesmen alike. Why? Because power determines your social arrangements, quality of life. And more to the point of this book, whether you are free or enslaved or some degree of either. In short, it determines your personal fate, the fate of your community, the fate of a nation. There are infinite ways to view power, innumerable contexts and circumstances to apply it. There’s truly. No. Simple. Concise all purpose definition for what is meant by paranoia. Let’s stop and think about that. Give it a shot. What would the all purpose concise definition of power be? For that matter, liberty, for that matter rights. And I explore all three. And what I think will be a fascinating journey was for me, and I think it will be for you. But you’re going to learn so much. Clearly, however. Power is more than a word. Spent time thinking and talking or writing about it is not a mere abstraction, a useless morph ism or an elitist. As for terrorism, it is a term that is meant to describe some kind of force or energy that surrounds us all the time is both ubiquitous in your life, the life of the entire society, and inconsequential in every way. Indeed, power is a core reality and characteristic of human existence. By the way, if you hear me slowing down when I read a little bit or not, I didn’t bring my magnifying glass. I’m reading as best I can the fonts here yet without more, such as context and circumstance. Power can be ambiguous and elusive, that all human pursuits, including personal pursuits and life events, power matters. At a macro level, power shapes economies, politics and governments. Moreover, there are many variations of power, applied powers, necessary powers, assumed powers, granted powers to find powers, limited powers, divided powers, ambiguous powers, seized powers, illegitimate powers, and so forth. For most people, these are unstated and often unnoticed or obscure kinds of power. But they exist and they matter. Indeed, power is inextricably linked to liberty. Although not to be confused with liberty itself. Power determines if there’s too much liberty, such as anarchy or too little liberty such as tyranny. Depending on how power is exercised, who exercises it and. If it’s bound to human rights. The American Revolution is an important and obvious example of power, properly pursued an exercise, the point of which was to promote individual and societal liberty, including by means of representative, representative, limited, divided government that is ordered liberty. Conversely, autocrats of every stripe and in all ages have exploited liberty to empower themselves at the expense of the liberty of others. Indeed, one’s use of liberty this way to expand one’s own power to to diminish of not denude the liberty of others is in a real sense a paradox. And it is a cancer that apparently metastasizes over time within democracies. And so I will get into this issue throughout the book. Of the rise and fall of democracies. I’ve autocracy. Why that happens. The use of power, how that happens. The different methodologies and tools that are used to push a society in one direction or another and how that affects each and every one of you. To be clear, then even the most wisely conceived nation states, mindful of man’s abuse of power and established with the intent of curbing and restraining that power, seem to fail in the end. Corner, Athens and Rome. Numerous lesser societies, democracies struggle against the centralization of power almost from the moment they are hatched. And I go on much more later in the chapter. The word democracy, like the word liberty, is frequently used as a rhetorical weapon to deceive the true intentions and conceal the real nature of its abusers. Again, these behaviors and tactics are not exclusive to tyrants and autocracies. It’s a real and growing threat in Western societies as they increasingly centralize power in the name of unlimited, egalitarian and so-called righteous causes environmental justice, economic justice, social justice, equity reparations and so forth and so on, which require and in fact demand the centralization of power to supposedly ameliorate the perceived, claimed and in some cases manufactured societal maladies, the final resolution of which are not only impossible, but are not necessarily intended to be solvable. And they go into some length in to that. Again. I wrote this for you and I wrote it for our times. And they came up with these two concepts of negative power and positive power. Negative power and positive power. Chapter two is negative power, negative powers, power that is exercised by force or other less obvious coercive means. Among its purposes is to limit individual liberty in identity and sovereignty. In its most aggressive form and when exercised by a faction, cabal or government, both autocratic and authoritarian, for example, communist regimes, fascistic regimes, terrorist quasi states, the people are treated as servants to the proclaimed cause and those exercising power rather than the other way around. Its purpose is to devour and control society, not serve it. Therefore, it must denude individuals of their free will, self-worth, aspirations, development, progress and human spirit. And control the society generally through the exercise of concentrated, centralized, unchallenged and ubiquitous power. It is critical to restrict speech and debate, manipulate language and manufacture new meanings for existing words and new words with self-serving meanings. Propaganda and repetition are the mainstay to controlling communication and the pursuit of ideas. Information and knowledge are condemned and punished. That is to dictate thought, conformity, predictability, regurgitation and obedience are crucial, the lifeblood of the despotic regime. The goal is to create vigorous followers and fanatics for the cause and the regime, not a healthy and robust society of self-sufficient, curious, freethinking, independent human beings. Now, that’s the chapter on negative power, and it’s much more extensive. I’m just giving you a little flavor, just a tiny little flavor, and I’m hope this is really peaking your curiosity because this is the smartest of audiences. Chapter three is on positive power. Positive power starts from an altogether different premise than negative power. God is the sovereign and through God His children. That is the individual and the people are sovereign. Thus, power, properly understood and exercised in the context of government, is about the well-being of the ruled, if you will. Not the rulers. The people are the sovereign, not the governing authority, and importantly, the belief in God given eternal truths. Natural law and unalienable rights are the basis of a moral and virtuous society that transcends any ruling class. I actually wrote that like six months ago. One’s approach to life and role in society involves practices, decisions, values and beliefs that together form one’s life philosophy, which result from learned cognitive, reactionary, experiential, or even instinctive thought processes and significantly faith. Faith is a vital, if not the imperative influence in the life of the individual, a nation. And even in countries that are said to be secular and formally or institutionally disclaim any excuse me, disclaim and seek to invalidate faith, including by indoctrination and force. And of course, faith has preached and practiced by certain religious or religious leaders now and in the past have been used by despots and despotic regimes. In other autocrats for power that is to brutalize, destroying, kill. So I get into this. And I’ll take you through this journey with me. Judaism and Christianity. And I focus a lot on Marxism. Which which claims to reject faith altogether. Basically, it replaces itself as a faith. And Islamism, which might be controversial, but it shouldn’t be. And so I do a dive into that. And so we better understand what it is, what we’re up against when it comes to Qatar and Iran and Saudi Arabia and Hamas and all the rest of them, and how Western societies and Democritus, including ours, including our politicians. Are not. Able to effectively confront them. Because they don’t really understand them. You won’t understand them and you won’t understand them a lot through this book. And so it has an absolute immediate import. Chapter four is on language. Language. Language has many purposes. Of course I write, but its core language is about communication and there are many types of communication and many purposes for it as well. And then I write, I will organize them into two basic categories the power of language and the power over language. Again, this distinction has been discussed over the ages and in recent times in an infinite number of ways. That said, I shall use them here to make certain fundamental points, understanding that they are distinguishable in significant ways. That is the power of language in the power over language. Think about that. Sounds simple, right? Well, one is about freedom and the other one’s about tyranny. The pursuit and maintenance of negative power requires the utilization of negative techniques of communication, including manipulation, deception, repetition, deceit, concealment, distraction, fear mongering and language that is intimidating, self-serving and orchestrated. And I explain again the difference between these aggressive totalitarian states and our country and democracy. It’s used here to. It is an approach that seeks to arouse prejudices and stifle independent thought. I’ll give you an example. It’s not just by governments, although that’s my focus. Whenever I post anything about Qatar or Iran or posting about Hamas, post anything about Israel. With a massive flood. Of Klansman type. neo-Nazi type. Jew haters. An American hater. They flood into my site and they make a zillion comments, and a lot of them might be trolls for foreign governments. I got that. I don’t even bother reading them anymore. But it is truly horrendous. And so you see the mindset. It is a monstrous mindset of evil, dark people. From wherever they are or whomever they are. That’s what I mean by negative language. And even more than that. But there’s positive language to it. I’ll give you a couple more. Chapter five is on rates. I’ll discuss that a little bit more tomorrow. Chapter six is on liberty. Again, I’m just giving you, what, 1% of each chapter? Just a little taste of the book. The reason I urge you to order a book early and I do this with every book to preorder a book is because throughout the process, before it’s released in this book will be released in a couple months, July 29. They have these heavy discounts because they’re trying to drive sales and you can take advantage of this. You’ll go on there. Now, there’s no discount, but there will be. If you go to Amazon.com, you type in on power. So you’ll take it. You could take advantage of that. The second reason is you get the book immediately upon its release. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
I am so excited for you to read this book. I can barely contain myself now. Again, it comes out July 29, but the reason to pre-order the benefit is you’re going to get a major discount at some point in the next 6 to 8 weeks. That’s what they do because they want to drive sales before the book comes out. So it’s good to get in the queue as fast as you can. Number two, you’ll be the first to get them. And if they run out of books, they’re happy for, You will get your book before everybody else. I’m just throwing it out there for you. So that’s Amazon.com. Also, it takes a little while for the whole thing to populate. If you go directly to Mark Levine show on our social sites, the platform we’ve a direct link to the book. Or if you go to Mark Levin, show that come our website, we have a direct link to the book. But if you go to Amazon and type in on power, you’ll be there a couple of more clicks and so forth to find it because it hasn’t fully populate. This book is so new. It was literally populated on Amazon 90 minutes ago and I want you to get the best price you can. We’ve priced it the best way we can. I’m going to be talking about it for the next several months and linking it to events that are taking place. I don’t do book book book, book book shows. I do shows that include the book because the book is written to include you and to include events to be relevant. And this book is more relevant than ever before because this issue of power is a big, big issue. And I wanted to take it, grab it, wrestle it to the ground and do it with you. We’ll be right back.