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American Thought Leaders
At a time when our nation is portrayed as increasingly polarized, media often ignore viewpoints and stories that are worthy of attention. American Thought Leaders, hosted by The Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek, features in-depth discussions with some of America’s most influential thought leaders on pertinent issues facing our nation today.
Episodes
American Thought LeadersWhat the End of the Orban Era Means for Hungary and Its Constitution | Marton Sulyok
Hungary is undergoing a major transformation with the election of a new prime minister. After 16 years in power, Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party was swept from…
American Thought LeadersOne Key Fact About America’s Founding That Isn’t Taught Anymore | Eric Metaxas
Ahead of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, New York Times bestselling author and talk show host Eric Metaxas is publishing his latest book, a…
American Thought LeadersIs Canada Becoming the CCP’s Backdoor into America? | Former Canadian Intel Analyst Scott McGregor
Could communist Chinese infiltration of Canada become an existential threat to American security—or is it already one? Scott McGregor has spent decades in the…
American Thought LeadersGordon Chang Breaks Down Trump-Xi Summit and What’s Next
In this episode, I sit down with China analyst Gordon Chang to understand his view of the recent Trump–Xi talks in Beijing. Who had the upper hand? Why did…
American Thought LeadersHow Cartels Force Children Into Prostitution, Drug Dealing and Even Killing | Rosi Orozco
Rosi Orozco is one of the world’s leading voices against human trafficking. She has been working in human rights advocacy for over three decades, and as a…
American Thought LeadersThe Charter School Founder Turning Children Toward Plato, Virtue, and the Eternal | Caylan Ford
“People have lost sight of what education is supposed to be,” said Caylan Ford. In 2022, she founded Canada’s first tuition-free classical charter school, the…
American Thought LeadersThe CCP’s Greatest Insecurity—and America’s Greatest Weapon | Sam Brownback
It’s time to fundamentally rethink America’s approach to the Chinese Communist Party, argues Sam Brownback, former U.S. senator, Kansas governor, U.S…
American Thought LeadersHomeopathy Cured Her Disease, Now She’s Fighting for More Access | Paola Brown
Paola Brown first turned to homeopathy, a form of alternative medicine based on the principle of “like cures like,” after many years of suffering from…
American Thought LeadersWhy a Taiwan Invasion Would Trigger Trillions in Global Losses | Amb. Alexander Yui
An island nation only one-third the size of Virginia, Taiwan produces more than 90 percent of the world’s most advanced chips and more than 90 percent of the…
American Thought LeadersInside ‘Trump 2.0’ and the Media’s Role in Political Violence | Sean Spicer
In what was the third major attempt on President Donald Trump’s life in an era of escalating political violence, this year’s White House Correspondents…
American Thought LeadersOver 1,000 CCP-Linked Groups in America: Exposing United Front Operations | Peter Mattis
A recent landmark Jamestown Foundation report maps Chinese United Front operations, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) effort to co-opt and weaponize civil…
American Thought LeadersSen. Ron Johnson: Here’s What We Found in 11 Million Pages of COVID Records
Subpoenaed documents released by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) reveal that American public health officials were well aware of COVID-19 vaccine safety signals for…
American Thought LeadersWhy Some Scientists Are Rethinking Darwin’s Theory of Evolution | Stephen Meyer
For decades now, we’ve been told the biggest questions of how life and our universe came to be were settled. But what if they’re not? Stephen Meyer has spent…
American Thought LeadersHow Rampant Explicit Material Is Poisoning the Minds of America’s Children | Kristen Jenson
“Pornography is like a silent epidemic ... but nobody wants to talk about it much,” says child protection advocate Kristen Jenson. She’s the author of the…
American Thought LeadersWhy 28- and 29-Year-Olds Are Disappearing From China’s Uyghur Concentration Camps | Ethan Gutmann
For two decades, investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann has been researching how the Chinese Communist Party secretly harvests the organs of prisoners of…
American Thought LeadersThe Failures of Multiculturalism in the United Kingdom | Peter McIlvenna
A series of devastating inquiries have documented how networks of men—primarily of Muslim Pakistani heritage—groomed, trafficked, and gang-raped thousands of…
American Thought LeadersFrom AI Girlfriends to Brain Implants, How the AI Revolution Is Radically Reshaping Our World | Wynton Hall
Artificial intelligence is radically reshaping the workplace, the digital ecosystem, the way we interact with each other, and the future of crime…
American Thought LeadersThe Missouri v. Biden Censorship Case Just Ended in a Landmark Settlement. Here’s What That Means | Mark Chenoweth
Recently, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) reached a major settlement concluding the landmark Missouri v. Biden lawsuit against government-induced…
American Thought LeadersHe Ran the World’s Biggest Payment Processor; Now He’s Taking on Social Security | Frank Bisignano
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Frank Bisignano, who oversees not one, but two of America’s most consequential institutions: the Social Security…
American Thought LeadersHow ‘Brain Rot’ and the Escapist Virtual World Is Harming Our Youth | Adnan Alkhalili
Have Gen Z and Gen Alpha lost touch with the real world? Gen Z entrepreneur and founder of Touch Grass Together, Adnan Alkhalili, thinks so. “I grew up very…
American Thought LeadersThe Many Hidden Fronts of CCP Unrestricted Warfare | Casey Fleming
National security expert T. Casey Fleming is the CEO of BlackOps Partners, a strategy and cybersecurity consulting firm that he founded in 2008. He’s also the…
American Thought LeadersThe Feminization of Society and the Stigmatization of Normalcy | J.D. Haltigan
“You can’t abandon the concept of normality, or societies will just completely fall apart,” said developmental psychologist and social science scholar J.D…
American Thought LeadersHas Xi Jinping Unified His Own Enemies? | Robert Suettinger
To understand the significance of the sweeping military purges in China and how Beijing is reacting to America’s war with Iran, I’m sitting down with eminent…
American Thought LeadersThe Harvard Astrophysicist Searching for Extraterrestrial Life | Avi Loeb
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is not your typical astronomer. For many years, he’s been scouring the universe for the abnormal and the unknown. “Brushing…
American Thought LeadersHow the CCP Dehumanizes Christians in China | Pastor Bob Fu
Pastor Bob Fu was a student leader during the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement and later led an underground Chinese house church. In 1996, he was imprisoned…
American Thought LeadersWhy the Iran War Is All About China | Zineb Riboua
“The U.S. went to war in Iran because Iran made itself a Chinese weapon,” argues policy analyst Zineb Riboua, a research fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center…
American Thought LeadersFrom Iran to Venezuela—How Trump Is Neutralizing Beijing’s Allies | Gordon Chang
Dozens of Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been killed in U.S.–Israeli joint strikes on Iran. In this episode, I’m…
American Thought LeadersMatched and ‘Killed to Order’: Inside the CCP’s Dark Organ Industry | With Guest Host Rob Schneider
For twenty years, I’ve investigated a crime almost too horrific to name—now documented in my new book: “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and…
American Thought LeadersTreating the Root, Not Just the Symptoms: The Power of Integrative Medicine | Dr. Daniel Monti
Dr. Daniel Monti is the founding chair of the first integrative medicine department at an American medical university. Rather than treating symptoms in…
American Thought LeadersI Talked to 50 California Mayors. What They Told Me Was Surprising | Elaine Culotti
“What’s important for people to know is that the majority of California is actually not to the far left. We’re a very purple state,” says Elaine Culotti, a…
American Thought Leaders‘I Want My Dad Back:’ Inside the CCP’s War on Underground Churches | Grace Jin Drexel
In this episode, I sit down with Grace Jin Drexel, the daughter of detained Pastor Ezra Jin, the founder of one of China’s largest underground house-church…
American Thought LeadersMost Americans Agree: You Can’t Change Your Sex | Jonathan Butcher
How polarized are Americans really? Are we really on the “brink of civil war” as some suggest? That’s what I wanted to find out when I sat down with Jonathan…
American Thought LeadersThe Arctic Chessboard: Why Greenland and Canada Are Critical to US Security Against the CCP | Alex Gray
“People have misunderstood that [Greenland] is somehow a President Donald Trump issue, and it’s not,” says Alex Gray, who previously served as National…
American Thought LeadersA Century of Misjudgment: How the US Helped the CCP Survive, and Become Its Greatest Adversary | Xi Van Fleet
Xi Van Fleet grew up in China during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. She was too young to be a real revolutionary Red Guard, but old enough to observe the…
American Thought LeadersExclusive: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on How the NIH Is Rethinking Autism, DEI, China Ties, and Gain-of-Function
In this no-holds-barred interview, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, breaks down how the world’s largest public funder of…
American Thought LeadersInside Beijing’s Darkest State Crime—And Those Fighting to Expose It | Raymond Zhang
In 2015, a whistleblower came forward to The Epoch Times to share an unthinkable story. Years before, while a resident doctor at one of China’s largest…
American Thought LeadersThe Forgotten Wisdom of the Declaration of Independence | Matthew Spalding
Matthew Spalding is a professor of constitutional government at Hillsdale College and author of “The Making of the American Mind: The Story of The Declaration…
American Thought LeadersCCP Exploiting Birth Tourism in America on an ‘Industrial’ Scale | Peter Schweizer
A significant industry has emerged of expectant mothers flying from China to states such as California or U.S. territories such as Saipan to give birth to…
American Thought LeadersHow Xi Jinping Broke All the CCP’s Rules | Heng He
“We are witnessing the turning point of the Chinese Communist Party rule. … The chain of command in the military is totally broken,” says veteran China analyst…
American Thought LeadersThe False Promise of Antidepressants | Dr. Joanna Moncrieff
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff is a British psychiatrist and author of “Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.” She challenges the…
American Thought LeadersIn Some States, Parents Risk Losing Custody for Rejecting Child’s Transgender Identity | Erin Friday
Erin Friday is an attorney and the co-lead of Our Duty, a parent-led international organization that opposes transgender procedures for minors. When her…
American Thought LeadersWhy Steak Is at the Top of the New Food Pyramid | Dr. Shawn Baker
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy recently unveiled a new food pyramid and dietary guidelines for Americans that emphasize high-quality protein, dairy, healthy…
American Thought LeadersA New Approach to Alzheimer’s? | Lou Reese
A typical vaccine stimulates a person’s immune system, yet only a portion of the immune response actually targets the disease it’s designed to protect against…
American Thought LeadersThe Failures of the Mental Health Drug Revolution | David Cohen
An estimated one in six American adults today are taking some form of psychiatric medication. Yet it seems mental health outcomes across America have seen no…
American Thought LeadersDr. Mehmet Oz: Up to $4 Billion in Health Care Fraud in California
“Minnesota … is just the tip of the iceberg,” says Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Minnesota has…
American Thought LeadersThe Evidence of Harm: What the Data Really Show About Pediatric Transgender Procedures | Leor Sapir
One of the first executive orders President Donald Trump signed after his inauguration last January was titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical…
American Thought LeadersThe Untold Story Behind Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ Speech | Producer Mark Joseph
Ronald Reagan first visited the Berlin Wall in 1978, during the Carter administration. While there, he reportedly told his aides: “We’ve got to find a way to…
American Thought LeadersDevin Nunes on Ending the Politicization of America’s Intelligence Agencies
It’s been almost a decade since then-House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes first launched his investigation with now-FBI director Kash Patel into…
American Thought LeadersExclusive: Inside SBA’s Crack Down on Loan Fraud Nationwide | Administrator Kelly Loeffler
The Small Business Administration (SBA) recently suspended nearly 7,000 Minnesota borrowers for suspected fraud in pandemic-era small business loans totaling…
American Thought LeadersWhy Maduro’s Capture Is a Major Blow for Beijing | J. Michael Waller
In this episode, we sit down with J. Michael Waller, a senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy and author of “Big Intel,” to understand…
American Thought LeadersLink Between Antifa and Homelessness Nonprofits | Jonathan Choe
“I’m seeing crime, chaos, and death on the streets of America. ... The homeless are being used. And Antifa, the far left activists, they want to keep the tent…
American Thought LeadersAlex Berenson: What Teens Should Know About Cannabis and THC
Former New York Times reporter and now independent journalist Alex Berenson is the author of “Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness…
American Thought LeadersChloe Cole Breaks Down Major HHS Shift on Gender Medicine—and Why It Matters
At age 12, Chloe Cole began identifying as male and started socially transitioning. Soon after, she was put on puberty blockers. Testosterone injections…
American Thought LeadersThe Woke Movement Has Peaked. What’s Next? | Andrew Doyle
Have we reached the end of “woke”? Comedian and writer Andrew Doyle thinks yes. But he believes new forms of what he calls the “authoritarianism impulse” will…
American Thought LeadersHow Overdiagnosis Turns Healthy People Into Patients | Alan Cassels
“We get a lot of inappropriate over-prescribing for almost everything,” says drug policy researcher and journalist Alan Cassels. Cassels is the co-author of…
American Thought LeadersRob Schneider: Here’s What’s Wrong With Our Culture Today
“COVID was a really dark time for me and for a lot of people,” said Rob Schneider. For the famous comedian and actor, the years of the pandemic were a time to…
American Thought LeadersThe Reagan-Era Strategy That Could Reignite America’s Technological Power | Michael Sekora
As early as 1989, intelligence officers in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) recognized China as the next threat, says former DIA officer and physicist…
American Thought LeadersWhat Americans Aren’t Told About Psychiatric Medications | Robert Whitaker
For the past half century, Americans have been told that psychiatric drugs fix chemical imbalances in the brain. But this is nothing but a myth, says…
American Thought LeadersFormer US Army Pacific Chief Reveals What’s Missing in US Taiwan Strategy | Gen. Charles Flynn (Ret.)
How might a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan unfold? China’s anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategy—a combination of missiles, submarines, sensors, and…
American Thought LeadersFuture of European Security and Russia-Ukraine Peace Efforts: Latvia Foreign Minister Baiba Braze
Amidst ongoing U.S. efforts to mediate a Russia–Ukraine peace and the release of a new U.S. national security strategy that has sent shockwaves through Europe…