Mark Levin’s Latest Bestseller: On Power | The American Spectator

The Great One (as Sean Hannity calls his friend Mark Levin) has a knack for writing the exactly right — and needed — book at the right and needed moment.

Having authored a full 10 — say again 10! — bestsellers on the problems facing America in today’s world, this time around Mark addresses what can easily be seen as a central component in today’s world. The book is On Power, and it is safe to say that when it comes to seriously thoughtful and educational books, Mark has done it again with On Power.

For that matter, power is not just relevant in today’s world. It is always relevant in every age as this or that group of, in our case, Americans, faces the hard facts that humans live in a competitive world. A world that is and has always been a world in which power is wielded by those with good, bad, or indifferent motives.

Mark begins by noting the obvious. To wit, studying power is critical:

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, and the fate of a nation.

Exactly.

Stop for a moment and reflect on what Mark is saying by using something currently in the news and making news just now, after this book was published.

Here is this current headline from the New York Post:

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shocked to his core over FBI’s recent corruption discoveries: ‘I’ll never be the same’ 

The Post story begins by reporting this:

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino boldly declared Saturday that he made recent discoveries about government corruption and weaponization that shocked him down to the core.

Without elaborating on what he found out, Bongino teased that investigations into those discoveries are ongoing and being done “by the book.”

“What I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core,” Bongino said in a shocking announcement on X.

“We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.”

Whatever else Americans are about to learn from Bongino, they can already know that what he is talking about is his having seen the raw exercise of power inside the government as administered by the current group of bureaucrats at the top — and he was not only astonished, he was seriously concerned if not disturbed for the future of the country.

In his chapter “On Rights,” Mark zeroes in on what many see as the reason for power. He writes:

Stanford University professor Robert A. Berman explains that “Marxism was never about achieving an egalitarian society. It was about the pursuit of raw power.”

Exactly.

Mark goes on, saying this:

Therefore, in modern parlance, the endgame is not just social justice, environmental justice, economic justice, equity, etc., but raw power. The rest is nothing more than propaganda in pursuit of that power. Is that not the true end of all autocratic regimes? Power!

Again, exactly.

Along with Mark Levin, I worked in Washington in government for a considerable period. I long ago moved out of there.

But when I return periodically for visits or occasions with former colleagues, driving through the nation’s capital is a clear reminder of what Washington is all about — power. One glass and concrete behemoth after another houses thousands of bureaucrats and, yes, lobbyists, whose sole objective is to gain and wield power. That’s it.

And in the process of obtaining or wielding that power, writes Mark, for Marxists in America:

the means is the relentless war on the nation’s founding and Founders, American history, the Constitution and the law, freedom of speech, the family, the culture, faith, the economic system (capitalism), and more. It is a real and focused whole-of-society counter revolution. Therefore, it is essential that they secure power inside or as the ruling class, where they plot to hold governmental power as long as they can and pass it to succeeding generations of like-minded ideologues.

Mark Levin’s On Power is a treasure — and a treasure for a very real reason. Americans, understandably, are busy — very busy — living their everyday lives. They have families and jobs that need attention and time.

But On Power is a reminder that while life’s visible essentials must be tended to, so too must the invisible and often-enough visible realities of American — and for that matter global — life be tended to as well. And for one ageless reason.

Power is out there, whether Americans like it or not or pay attention to it or not. And as history has repeatedly illustrated over the centuries, to not pay attention to power — to who has it, to who uses it, and to what they use it for — is to repeat one of history’s oldest mistakes.

Which is another way of saying that Mark Levin’s latest bestseller and handbook On Power is exactly the book Americans should be reading in the summer of 2025 — and beyond.

Noting — and remembering — the lessons it teaches.