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American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Timeswww.theepochtimes.com
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

Gov. Jeff Landry: Has the Supreme Court Forgotten the Importance of the 1st Amendment?

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 Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, the landmark free speech case revolving around government communications with Big Tech companies. “I left the court really scratching my head at some of the questions that the justices offered to the new solicitor general from Louisiana,” says Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who was among...

Mar 25, 202437 min

After Cross-Sex Hormones and a Double Mastectomy, I Detransitioned: Laura Becker

“What I had been taught online and in high school was that this is actually a legitimate thought to have: Okay, maybe I should have been a gay man, maybe I’m trans.” As a teenager, Laura Becker lived in an abusive household and suffered from depression, social anxiety, and substance addiction. She became convinced that transitioning would cure her of her trauma. “It wasn’t framed to me as queer theory. When I was in middle school, like 14, it was framed as social justice. ... And I latched on to...

Mar 23, 202451 min

My Bank Account Was Unlawfully Frozen by Prime Minister Trudeau. Now I’m Suing: Edward Cornell

“There I was: no cash, no access to my credit cards, nothing. And I left on a Monday morning. I had other jobs that I had to take care of while I was there, and I had no money for gas. I had no money for lodging, nothing for food ... For what? What did I do?” In 2022, Eddie Cornell was at home in New Brunswick, Canada, when he began to hear chatter of a trucker’s convoy making its way to Ottawa to protest the COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates. “And I thought, ‘I need to be there,’” says Mr. C...

Mar 18, 202437 min

How US Dollars Built—And Continue to Build—China’s Military: James Fanell and Bradley Thayer

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 “The first rule of strategy is don’t assist your enemy. And of course, we violated that time and time again,” says Bradley Thayer, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. After aggressively building up and modernizing its military, China now has a larger navy than the United States. How does the Chinese military compare to America’s overall? What would ...

Mar 18, 20241 hr 13 min

Censorship, Guns, and Administrative Power: Mark Chenoweth Explains 3 Major SCOTUS Cases

“It’s not the government’s job to police the line between true speech and false speech. The Constitution doesn’t give our government that power. The government has the power to police the line between lawful speech and unlawful speech.” Mark Chenoweth is the president and chief legal officer of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights group dedicated to protecting constitutional freedoms from government violations. “Most people aren’t going to know why their speech was...

Mar 15, 202436 min

The Truth About TikTok: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr

“Right when TikTok was negotiating a national security agreement with U.S. officials, a Beijing-based team surveilled the location of journalists who’ve been writing negative stories about TikTok. And the evidence at this point of their real national security threat is very clear.” Brendan Carr serves as the senior Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission. He has testified before Congress about the unique national security threat to America posed by the video-hosting serv...

Mar 13, 202417 min

The Secret to Addiction Recovery: Former Addict-Turned-Entrepreneur Joe Polish

“I was drinking alcohol, I was smoking cigarettes, I was snorting cocaine, I was snorting crystal meth, and I was freebasing—all in the same day. And I was a complete wreck,” says Joe Polish. A former addict turned successful entrepreneur, Mr. Polish is the founder of Genius Recovery, a nonprofit that’s trying to change how society approaches addiction, and Genius Network, a network of high-achieving entrepreneurs. In this episode, we explore what’s broken in our society, what’s fueling the opio...

Mar 11, 202453 min

Jessica Rose Breaks Down 1.6 Million Adverse Event Reports in VAERS, Definitive Evidence of Causality

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 “We’re up to over 1.6 million reports in VAERS in the context of these products ... The numbers keep going up,” says Jessica Rose, an immunologist and independent researcher. She recently co-wrote a paper examining the data surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine adverse events. It was the first published paper to call for a global moratorium on the COVID-19 genetic vacc...

Mar 08, 202448 min

Inside Argentina’s New Government, with Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich

“We decided to change this paradigm from one day to another, and in one month, we have cut our budget in 5 percent of the GDP. It’s historical ... The President declared that Argentina was in zero deficit.” In this episode, I sit down with Argentina’s Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich. We dive into the radical changes her country has experienced since Javier Milei was elected President. “We are deregulating the economy. We are simplifying the economy. We are going to do a huge process of p...

Mar 07, 202427 min

Why Many Chronic Diseases Are Preventable–And Why No One Tells You This: Dr. Robert Lufkin

Dr. Robert Lufkin was once a self-described “product of the medical establishment,” with a fruitful career as a professor of medicine. He’s published hundreds of scientific papers, and has received millions of dollars in government funding. But when, out of the blue, he was diagnosed with four seemingly unrelated chronic diseases—and told that he was going to have to be on medication for life—he started looking elsewhere for answers. “It was through lifestyle changes that I was able to reverse t...

Mar 04, 202442 min

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss: Britain’s Democratic Process Has Been ‘Outsourced’

“Currently, the government spends 45 percent of GDP in Britain. You know, that is a pretty astonishing figure. It’s 36 percent in the United States, so you’re not that far behind. But in Britain, it’s 45 percent, and I don’t think that represents a proper free market economy.” In this episode, I sit down with Liz Truss, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. We dive into the reality of mass immigration and net-zero climate policy in Britain and discuss how parliamentary powers are being su...

Mar 01, 202424 min

An Impending Disaster for America in the Pacific?–Grant Newsham

In the pending $95 billion security aid bill, most of America has been focusing on U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. But few noticed that key funds for another region were removed—an action that could give communist China control of much of the Pacific. Grant Newsham is an expert on Asia-Pacific, a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy, and author of “When China Attacks.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the v...

Feb 27, 202428 min

How the FBI and CIA Operate as ‘States Within a State’: Michael Waller

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 “So, you had this left-wing, pro-communist and left-wing, anti-communist sections in our intelligence services. And then when the OSS was abolished, many went into the State Department. And they shaped the policies that we’re living with today.” In this episode, I sit down with Michael Waller, senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy and the a...

Feb 21, 20241 hr 4 min

Trump’s NATO Comments, the Tucker-Putin Interview, and the WHO Pandemic Treaty: Historian and Estonian Official Anti Poolamets

“It looks very legitimate when the President speaks, yes, but I don’t believe a word when a KGB man speaks ... This was a propaganda message for [the] American public first.” Anti Poolamets is an Estonian historian and a prominent member of the Conservative People’s Party. He is an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump’s policies concerning Europe, and an equally fierce critic of Vladimir Putin’s expansionist ambitions and his invasion of Ukraine. “Trump was a man with [a] backbone and [the] bigge...

Feb 20, 20241 hr 13 min

Peter Boghossian on Ivy League Cover-Ups: Harvard Plagiarism Just the Tip of the Iceberg

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 “There are people—a non-trivial number of people—who teach in the academy, many of whom have tenure, who have obtained their credentials fraudulently. They have lied, they have cheated on their PhD, and that is an extraordinarily serious problem on multiple levels.” As professor of philosophy at Portland State University, Peter Boghossian was known for challenging...

Feb 18, 202451 min

What Is Shen Yun? An Exclusive, Inside Look With Leading Shen Yun Artists | Special Episode

At a time when much of the performing arts seem to be on the decline, one company has experienced a meteoric rise. In less than two decades, Shen Yun Performing Arts has grown from one to eight companies touring the globe simultaneously—each with its own live orchestra. Shen Yun now travels to 200 cities and performs in front of over one million audience members each year. These artists are driving a restoration of authentic Chinese culture—yet they are banned in China. In this special episode o...

Feb 16, 202439 min

Arrested and Banned From School, Josh and Nick Alexander on Their Fight Against Gender Ideology and Mandates

Brothers Josh and Nick Alexander are evangelical Christians who have become known in Canada for taking vocal stances against COVID-era mandates and gender ideology in schools. They were highly active in Canada’s Freedom Convoy and the Million March for Children, a walk-out protest against gender ideology. They’ve been arrested multiple times and faced major backlash for their activism. Josh Alexander was suspended and ultimately banned from physically attending his Catholic high school after pro...

Feb 16, 202457 min

Dr. Pierre Kory Explains COVID-19 Vaccine Shedding

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 For years now, we’ve heard rumblings about COVID-19 vaccine shedding. Unvaccinated women talk of menstrual abnormalities after coming into close contact with vaccinated individuals. Some recently vaccinated mothers report babies experiencing bad reactions after breastfeeding. So what is this phenomenon? Is it real? And if so, what kinds of people are most affected...

Feb 14, 202448 min

The Perverse Incentives Eroding Patient Care, From the Opioid Crisis to the Gender Craze: Dr. Carrie Mendoza

“When Obamacare happened, what it did was really give more power to the insurance companies and middlemen. I saw a lot of some of the smartest doctors in my group basically retire early, leave, or go into health tech. There are people that have gone into different areas in terms of autonomy, creativity, increasing their wages, but the actual clinical practice of medicine continues to have been marginalized.” Dr. Carrie Mendoza is an emergency medicine physician and an advocate for the depolitici...

Feb 09, 202447 min

The Cost of Staying Silent in the Face of Bullying Mobs: Katherine Brodsky

“If you can’t stand up for a human being that you respect, and love, and appreciate, and if you can’t stand up for a principle that you believe in, if you can’t stand up when somebody’s doing something that isn’t right—then who are you?” Katherine Brodsky was at the peak of her journalistic career, writing about technology, film, and culture for publications such as Variety and The Washington Post, when she fell victim to the cancel culture mob. “People were sending me threats. They were trying ...

Feb 07, 20241 hr 2 min

How Drug Cartels Infiltrated the Prescription Drug Market With Fake Pills: Michael Brown

In recent years, drug cartels have built a vast and lucrative business selling fake prescription drugs laced with fentanyl—which drives addiction faster than any other synthetic narcotic, says Michael Brown, who was a special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for over three decades. The majority of people dying from fentanyl-related overdoses now are taking what they think is a fairly innocuous prescription drug like Xanax, and they have no idea that it’s been laced with fentan...

Feb 05, 202454 min

The ‘Media Literacy’ Trojan Horse: Alvin Lui on Woke Indoctrination

“Parents think that media literacy means knowing when someone has actually fake news versus facts. What media literacy and organizations like the News Literacy Project [are doing is] brainwashing children to not listen to independent journalists or organizations like Epoch, or like what Chris Rufo is doing, ... and to instead only go back to the mainstream media.” In this episode, I sit down with Alvin Lui, a bona fide magician-turned-parental rights advocate, to understand the latest woke progr...

Feb 02, 202440 min

How a Tiny Gulf Nation Is Waging a Massive Information War on the West: Jonathan Schanzer

“Qataris were the ones who said, ‘Here, come to our country, we'll host you.’ So, now it is home to the largest American airbase in the Middle East, where we conduct our war on terrorism. And then down the street from this Al Udeid Air Base is Hamas, the Taliban, al Qaeda financiers, ISIS financiers … it is a truly bizarre arrangement.” Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He’s also a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S....

Feb 01, 202449 min

‘Billboard Chris’ Elston: A Child Is Never Born Wrong

“Empathy, kindness, understanding: Yeah, these are all things that everyone agrees with. But what’s really going on? Lies, deception, and physical child abuse.” Chris Elston was living a normal life as the father of two girls in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada, when he became aware of what he calls the “greatest child abuse scandal in modern medicine history.” “And the only thing I could do was to have some signs made and go outside,” he says. Over the last few years, Billboard Chris, as he’s c...

Jan 29, 202447 min

The Most Transparent Elections in the World? Adam Savit on the Taiwan Model

What can Americans learn from Taiwan when it comes to conducting secure and transparent elections? In this episode, I sit down with Adam Savit, director of the China Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute. He was in Taiwan recently to observe the presidential elections there. What is Taiwan’s significance for the United States? What would Japan do if the Chinese communist regime invaded Taiwan? Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not nece...

Jan 27, 202445 min

Dr. Michael Nehls: How Changes in Our Brain Make Us More Susceptible to Indoctrination

“You have to have a high level of psychological resilience, and these cells provide the resilience.” In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Michael Nehls, a molecular geneticist, physician, and author, most recently of “The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom.” Dr. Nehls advocates for a strong “mental immune system.” His studies look at the critical portion of our brain known as the hippocampus, which processes and indexes memories. “But the s...

Jan 24, 202458 min

The Truth About Gender Clinics: Whistleblower Jamie Reed

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 “We were bullying people into these concepts. It was an ideological bullying across the medical spectrum. And as you pull out of medicine, you see this in the schools, in journalism, in peer-reviewed publications—it’s everywhere.” In 2018, Jamie Reed began working as a case manager at a pediatric gender center. But after witnessing firsthand the irreversible effec...

Jan 22, 202449 min
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