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.
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To many Americans, the name Kash Patel has become legendary after he uncovered key aspects of one of the biggest scandals in American history—surveillance of a presidential campaign and then sitting president on the basis of unverified and suspect research by the opposing campaign. After two decades working in key roles in America’s national security apparatus, Kash Patel now joins Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek in this exclusive Epoch Times production looking at the most pressing is ...
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Restoring Free Speech in Academia: Jay Bhattacharya
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I recently had the pleasure of attending a Pandemic Planning conference at Stanford University. It was really the first of its kind, in that it brought together a wide range of voices on the topic in an academic setting, and it was held under the auspices of the new Stanford President Jonathan Levin. “I think it’s expanded the range of things that …
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An Economic Storm May Be Coming—Here’s What Trump Can Do About It: Jeffrey Tucker
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We’re launching a special “American Thought Leaders” series during this post-election transition period in which I will be interviewing topic matter experts and former and potential future Trump administration officials to understand what the incoming U.S. administration’s policies in 2025 may look like—for America, Canada, and the world. Today, I’…
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Death on Demand? Wesley J. Smith Explains the Assisted Suicide Movement
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Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “When a country or a state legalizes assisted suicide or euthanasia, it can no longer call itself anti-suicide, because it specifically approves some suicides. ... It’s a very dangerous movement that is normalizing t…
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Exposing an Illegal Chinese Immigration Hub Run by a CCP Police Officer: Philip Lenczycki
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Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “In the last four years, there has been an unprecedented surge in Chinese illegal immigration, so an over 1100 percent increase. … There is a large underground economy tied to this network,” says Philip Lenczycki, a …
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What Is Psywar? Dr. Robert Malone Explains
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In this episode, I sit down with scientist and physician Dr. Robert Malone to discuss his latest book, “PsyWar,” co-authored with his wife, Dr. Jill Malone. “Someone is making a decision about how people should think, what they should think, how they should feel, how they should behave in the world without consulting them, and you’re using a techno…
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China Uncensored: Exposing the CCP’s Narrative Warfare and Global Influence—Chris Chappell and Shelley Zhang
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“The CCP is very smart at understanding the divides in American society, and it knows how to target both sides.” In this episode, I sit down with Chris Chappell and Shelley Zhang, creators of the popular YouTube show “China Uncensored.” They’ve been covering Chinese Communist Party propaganda efforts and narrative warfare for more than a decade. Vi…
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Will the World Lock Down Again in the Next Pandemic? Dr. Kevin Bardosh
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“The COVID response caused much more harm than good. That’s my position on that, and I came to it by analyzing and reviewing huge amounts of academic research on all sorts of issues: excess mortality, effects on medical services, mental health, effects on the economy, poverty, food insecurity, education.” In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Kevin …
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N.S. Lyons: The Growing Impulse Towards Societal Engineering
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In certain ways China and the United States—despite being vastly different—are slowly converging, with technocratic managerial regimes playing an increasingly important role in each society, argues N.S. Lyons in his essay “The China Convergence.” Lyons’ writings can be found on his Substack titled “The Upheaval.” Views expressed in this video are o…
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Why We Need Legislation to Reduce the Risk of Lab-Generated Pathogens: Dr. Bryce Nickels
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“We have a problem, just generally, that the scientific community is not actually set up to protect the public from the risk of accidents in labs.” Dr. Bryce Nickels is a professor of genetics at Rutgers University and the co-founder of Biosafety Now, an organization that aims to reduce the public threat of lab-generated pandemics. “Like any person…
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Our Boys Are Falling Behind. Why? Asks Warren Farrell
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It has been six years since Warren Farrell and John Gray published their groundbreaking book, “The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.” A prominent feminist for many years, Farrell shifted his focus when he started noticing major gaps in the conversation about men and women’s issues. He’s written multiple books, inc…
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Key Vulnerabilities in US Elections: Hans von Spakovsky
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Hans von Spakovsky is a former member of the Federal Election Commission and a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He is also the head of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative. He has been looking at election integrity issues for years. In this episode, he breaks down what he sees as key vulnerabilities in the U.S. election sy…
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Mikhaila Fuller: Classical Education Is Disappearing. It’s Time to Change That
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Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 In this episode, I sit down with Mikhaila Fuller. She is the host of the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast and co-founder and CEO of Peterson Academy, an alternative educational model that she says is affordable, interactive…
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How Regenerative Farming Can Help Solve America’s Metabolic Disease Problem: Mollie Engelhart
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“More than 50 percent of Americans are metabolically unhealthy,” says Mollie Engelhart, a regenerative farmer and entrepreneur. Engelhart made the difficult decision to uproot her life in California due to heavy regulations and fallout from COVID-19 restrictions. She has since restarted from scratch in Texas. “All of our food comes from these indus…
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The New Sino-Iranian Alliance Taking Over Latin America: Joseph Humire
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We have this issue in Latin America where the region is going towards a much more autocratic direction. Democracy is kind of dying in the darkness, and Russia, China and Iran are positioning themselves to take advantage of all that.” Joseph Humire is executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and a visiting fellow at the Heritage Fo…
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Welcome to ‘Post-Journalism’: How Polarization Became the Business Model–Martin Gurri
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“Post-journalism essentially is the idea that journalism commodifies polarization,” says former CIA media analyst Martin Gurri. Instead of seeking objectivity and broad appeal to the general public, media seek to become a refuge for a subset of the population: “a temple of ideology” for people who share the same worldview, Gurri argues. “If you tak…
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China’s Hegemonic Ambitions, From Taiwan to the Moon: Richard Fisher
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Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “Building on a foundation of economic and then political influence, China has drawn Russia, North Korea, and Iran into its early, active, military dictatorship coalition,” author and China expert Rick Fisher said. In…
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Florida Surgeon General Ladapo: Why I’m Not Recommending the New Boosters
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Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 In this episode, I sit down with Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo. He recently issued new state guidance for COVID-19 boosters. “We are reminding Floridians and people around the country and really around th…
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Gordon Chang on Chinese Agents, Clashes With Philippines, and ‘Momentum Towards War’
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In this episode, we sit down with Gordon Chang to understand the Chinese regime’s strategy to destabilize America, from fentanyl warfare to election disinformation to suspicious activity at the border. “We’re seeing a change in composition of Chinese migrants. So if we go back two or three years ago, it’s basically family groups. Now you’re seeing …
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Sharyl Attkisson: My Investigations of Medical Cover-Ups and Pharma Scandals
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Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative journalist and the Emmy Award-winning host of “Full Measure.” She is also the author of several books, including, most recently, “Follow The Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obsc…
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How Marxism Exploits Crises and Division: Mike Gonzalez and Katie Gorka
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What is the connection between the anti-Israel protests we are seeing today and the 2014 unrest in Ferguson, Missouri? Is there a link to the French and Bolshevik revolutions? “The reason they tell you there’s systemic racism is because if you believe that, then the only logical conclusion is you must have a completely systemic overhaul,” says Mike…
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The Real Battleground With China Is Ideological—And America Needs to Counterattack, Says John Lenczowski
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John Lenczowski is the founder, chancellor, and president emeritus of The Institute of World Politics, a District of Columbia-based graduate school that specializes in the instruments of statecraft and national security. He was the principal Soviet affairs advisor to President Ronald Reagan. What are the Chinese Communist Party’s primary tools of s…
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Reclaiming the Middle Ground: Jill Long Thompson’s Vision for a More Collaborative Congress
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“We need more members of Congress who recognize that there’s value on both sides,” says Jill Long Thompson, a former U.S. congresswoman from Indiana who served in the 1990s. As a Democrat, she represented a heavily Republican district as a fiscal conservative. She says that today, polarization and gerrymandering—the redrawing of district lines for …
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Dr. Marty Makary: When Medical Consensus Fails—From Low-Fat Diets to Peanut Bans to Overuse of Antibiotics
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Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 Dr. Marty Makary is a surgeon, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and author of “Blind Spots: What Medicine Gets Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health.” “We’ve got to recognize now the best practices are exactl…
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From Deep Fakes to Impersonation Networks, Inside China’s Aggressive Campaigns to Manipulate You: Sarah Cook
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From fake online personas to manipulated audio and deep fakes to artificial amplification networks, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more creative about how they manipulate Americans, Canadians, Taiwanese, and other targets online. Independent China researcher Sarah Cook has been studying the Chinese regime’s online campaigns for years. She …
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Why Government Statistics Are Not Matching Up With Economic Realities: EJ Antoni
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Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 EJ Antoni is an economist and fellow at the Heritage Foundation, whose research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy. In this episode, we break down the discrepancies between government data, media reporting, and to…
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