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American Thought Leaders

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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

We Are Waging War Against Our Own Nature: Mary Harrington

“I would suggest that, actually, we’ve been living in the transhumanist era for 50 years or more. We’re half a century into the transhumanist age, and really, it began with the contraceptive pill.” Mary Harrington is a self-described “reactionary feminist,” contributing editor at UnHerd, and author of “Feminism Against Progress.” We sat down together at the Dissident Dialogues Festival to discuss the intersection of progress, individual freedom, technology, and, ultimately, transhumanism. “What ...

Jun 14, 202429 min

Sen. Roger Marshall: US Must Stop Funding Dangerous Research with Communist China

In this episode, I sit down with Sen. Dr. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), an obstetrician and gynecologist, to get his take on gain of function research, the origins of the virus, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Dr. Marshall shares what he believes are the “smoking guns” that link the origins of the coronavirus to a lab leak in Wuhan, China. “If we’re funding this type of research in a place like Wuhan, China, where we know that...

Jun 09, 202431 min

Daryl Davis: Why I Befriend Neo-Nazis and the KKK

“At the age of 10, I formed a question in my mind, which was: how can you hate me when you don’t even know me? And now, for the next 56 years, I’ve been looking for the answer to that question.” The son of American Foreign Service members, Daryl Davis grew up in many different countries and was exposed to a variety of cultures, religions, and ideologies. He became an internationally renowned musician, touring and performing with the likes of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and B.B. King. But a per...

Jun 05, 202448 min

How Modern Medicine Abandoned Healing: Mihai Nadin

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 failures of our COVID response and the “gender-affirming” care model have made a lot of people question science and medicine in the West. Mihai Nadin argues that science and medicine went awry a long time ago—in foundational ways. He’s a scholar and researcher with broad insights spanning electrical engineering, computer science, aesthetics, human-computer int...

Jun 04, 20241 hr 20 min

Scientists Opened Pandora’s Box, What Now? | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

“This catastrophic response that we faced during this pandemic will happen again in our lifetimes. The new normal is lockdown until vaccine. That is how we’re going to manage pandemics until there’s an explicit repudiation of the doctrine by public health,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of health policy at Stanford University and one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. In this episode, Dr. Bhattacharya shares his theory on what happened these last four years and the lin...

May 31, 202453 min

The Secret Ratings Agencies That Control Media Advertising: Freddie Sayers

“In this complex machinery, there are these things called ratings agencies ... and they put a number on how trustworthy individual publications are,” says Freddie Sayers. “If they give you a zero or they put you on the naughty list, you don’t get any advertising. Your business model is pretty much turned off overnight.” Mr. Sayers is the editor-in-chief of UnHerd, and he recently started looking into the systems of programmatic advertising after he discovered UnHerd had been given a zero rating ...

May 31, 202434 min

Behind America’s Mental Health Disaster: Carrie Sheffield

“When someone asks me where are you from, I say I’m from America, because I’m from so many different places, growing up in a motorhome, but also in houses, in sheds,” says Carrie Sheffield. “There were parts of my experience as a child that I really treasure that taught me to love America. But there unfortunately was a lot of abuse as well.” Now a columnist, broadcaster, and senior policy analyst for Independent Women’s Voice with a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, Ms. Sheffield...

May 27, 202447 min

From Rock Star to Dissident: Winston Marshall

In 2021, Winston Marshall sent a tweet congratulating Andy Ngo for his book, “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.” He soon found himself and his band, Mumford & Sons, at the center of a firestorm. Three years later, he’s the host of The Winston Marshall Show and co-founder of the “Dissident Dialogues” festival of ideas, which held its first gathering recently in Brooklyn in New York City. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do no...

May 24, 202428 min

Infertility After Vaccination? Dr. Kimberly Biss Explains the Data

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“ I noticed that my miscarriage rate from year to year had gone up by 100 percent.” Dr. Kimberly Biss is a board-certified OBGYN who has grown her Florida private practice to a five-provider group that delivers roughly 300 babies a year. Having been involved in more than a thousand pregnancies herself, Dr. Biss observed some disturbing trends in her patients once t...

May 23, 202443 min

Leaked Files Reveal Trans Medicine Harms to Children: Mia Hughes

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 “They have young teenage patients showing up at the hospital with vaginal atrophy, uterine atrophy, bleeding pain,” says Canadian journalist Mia Hughes, the author of a 70-page report that scrutinizes a series of leaked internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). “This is brand new territory. We’ve never done this to teen...

May 20, 20241 hr

Premier Danielle Smith on CCP Subversion: We Shouldn’t Be ‘Playing Into Our Own Demise’

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 “I think we now have to make sure that we understand what an adversary China is, and make sure that we’re not playing into our own demise,” says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. She has taken a strong stance on the communist China threat, and she has also been going against the grain in Canada with her policies on energy, COVID mandates, the drug crisis, and “gende...

May 15, 202425 min

James Lindsay and Logan Lancing Expose the Truth Behind Queer Theory

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 “They actually believe that all children are intrinsically queer, and that what’s happening is that normal society is ’socializing‘ them, which is a fancy word for ’brainwashing' them, to be normal, which means—for them—not queer, where queer is a political stance.” In this episode, I sit down with James Lindsay and Logan Lansing to discuss their new book, “The Qu...

May 13, 20241 hr 11 min

The Giant UN Agency Hijacked by Hamas: Asaf Romirowsky

“As long as the world can believe that Palestinians are refugees in perpetuity and are stateless in perpetuity because of a so-called colonial empire that has been thrust upon them by the Jews, then they have the sympathy of the world. And that has been their success story.” Following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, many of us became aware, for the first time, of UNRWA, the United Nations agency serving Palestinian refugees. It receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the United States eve...

May 09, 202433 min

RFK Jr. Takes on Trump and Biden Over Four ‘Existential’ Issues

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 wide-ranging interview, I get independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s candid take on the biggest challenges he sees facing America today. What does RFK Jr. see as the path forward when it comes to the rise in chronic diseases among young Americans, big tech manipulation, the Israel-Gaza war, and the threat of communist China? Views expre...

May 06, 202449 min

How Western Europe is Copying Communist China’s Policies: MEP Cristian Terhes

“How is it possible that the churches, or many churches, decided to close their doors exactly during those times when they were supposed to have their doors open?” Cristian Terhes is a Romanian-Greek Catholic priest and a Member of the European Parliament, representing Romania as a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group. Growing up under communism made him vigilant against creeping totalitarianism. “You will have unelected officials, bureaucrats, often unknown bureaucrats, dec...

May 04, 202441 min

How the Green Tech Industry Is Empowering Communist China: Steve Milloy

“The greener we get, the more dependent we are on China, and they’re taking advantage of it. That is part, I think, of their 100-Year Plan. They don’t want to go to war with anyone, they’re just going to own our economy.” What has been the result of the West’s current energy and climate policies? Has our planet become cleaner? Or greener? Or have our economies weakened, and our products cheapened? “China is burning fossil fuels like there is no tomorrow. And the Biden administration is doing eve...

May 02, 202443 min

Shocking Number of Excess Deaths, Disabilities, and Injuries Revealed: Edward Dowd

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 “Every regulator, every health authority, every government should be screaming from the top of their lungs: ‘This is a problem. This is a national [and] global crisis. We should look into it.’ But there’s silence on it, and I believe they’re silent because they know the answer.” Edward Dowd was a Wall Street executive working as a growth portfolio manager for Blac...

Apr 29, 202434 min

“The lack of response I’ve gotten by the FDA and the CDC leads me to believe that those agencies are captured. They should be doing this job. They should be out there surveying all the funeral homes and the embalmers around the world and trying to find out if this is a COVID problem. Is this a COVID vaccine problem? What’s causing these things? You can’t deny they exist, because here they are.” In this episode, I sit down with Thomas Haviland, a retired Air Force engineer and data analyst. After being fired from the military for refusing to take the COVID-19 genetic vaccine, he noticed that embalmers and funeral homes were speaking out about large, abnormal blood clots. “We should stop injections immediately, until Big Pharma can prove that these things really are safe, because the information I’ve gathered in this survey, I think, puts that greatly into question,” says Mr. Haviland. He conducted two worldwide surveys of hundreds of embalmers. “We got 179 responses to that first survey. Of those, 119 of the embalmers responding were seeing these strange white fibrous clots. Almost exactly 66 percent, two-thirds of the embalmers responding to that first survey said they were seeing these white fibrous clots ... They were seeing them in up to an average of 30 percent of their corpses, with some of the embalmers seeing them in up to 50 percent,” says Mr. Haviland. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

In 1997, the Chinese communist regime labeled Uyghur human rights activist Dolkun Isa a “criminal,” and put him on Interpol’s list of most dangerous fugitives. After 9/11, they added another label: “Terrorist.” He has been detained and expelled at the border of multiple countries, and narrowly escaped being extradited back to China. He’s the author of “The China Freedom Trap: My Life on the Run.” In this episode, he exposes the harrowing effects of the long arm of Chinese transnational repressio...

Apr 25, 20241 hr 5 min

Former Air Force Engineer on a Mission to Investigate Rise in Unusual Blood Clotting: Thomas Haviland

“The lack of response I’ve gotten by the FDA and the CDC leads me to believe that those agencies are captured. They should be doing this job. They should be out there surveying all the funeral homes and the embalmers around the world and trying to find out if this is a COVID problem. Is this a COVID vaccine problem? What’s causing these things? You can’t deny they exist, because here they are.” In this episode, I sit down with Thomas Haviland, a retired Air Force engineer and data analyst. After...

Apr 23, 202437 min

Peter Schweizer: Inside the CCP’s Fentanyl Warfare Strategy to Kill Americans

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 fentanyl scourge—the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45—is a “CCP-run operation,” says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. He’s the author of, most recently, “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.” In this episode, he breaks down the Chinese regime’s disintegration-warfare strategies to destroy Americ...

Apr 20, 20241 hr 3 min

Exposing the ‘Nudge Units’ Helping Governments Control People’s Behavior: Laura Dodsworth

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 “Now you have nudge units embedded in governments or advising governments all around the world. And what they’re really trying to do is change the will of the people from the top down. Now, there’s no democratic mandate for this. So, governments are sneakily using pre-conscious subliminal and covert techniques to change the way we behave, to make us model citizens...

Apr 18, 202449 min

How the Economic and Media Elite Plunder Working-Class Americans: Batya Ungar-Sargon

“The media really gave the liberal and leftist elites a language with which to pretend that they are the crusaders on the side of the good, when actually they themselves are the villains in this story in a big way. And that language is wokeness.” Batya Ungar-Sargon says she used to suffer from what’s been called “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But after speaking to people outside of her political bubble, she now believes he’s actually a centrist candidate. “Any time you turn on cable news, you wil...

Apr 16, 202440 min

How the NIH Admitted COVID Vaccine Injury in a Suppressed Study: Dr. Joel Wallskog

“The Department of Health and Human Services is sitting on over 12,000 claims by Americans injured by the COVID shots. … They have a denial rate of 98 percent,” says Dr. Joel Wallskog, an orthopedic surgeon who became permanently disabled after getting a COVID-19 genetic vaccine. In this episode, he shares his story, and he breaks down how compensation for COVID-19 vaccine injury claims is treated quite differently from compensation for other vaccine injuries. We also dive into what the NIH actu...

Apr 12, 202449 min

Over 75 Pediatric Gender Clinics Across America?–Jay Richards

“We’re in this moment in which the culture is on the edge of a precipice. And people from all walks of life and different metaphysical views are all seeing part of that picture and seeing where we’re going, and trying to figure out: okay, what do we do here? We’ve all been on this train going 120 miles an hour, we see it’s about to go off a ravine. We’re all getting off on this last train station, and we’re all very different and trying to figure out how to work together.” In this episode, I sit...

Apr 11, 202444 min

The World Health Organization is Creating a New ‘Pandemic Industry’: Philipp Kruse

“It is not about health, this entire WHO new treaty, but it’s about creating a new pandemic industry.” In this episode, I sit down with Swiss attorney Philipp Kruse, who specializes in international law. He has examined, line by line, the World Health Organization’s new pandemic treaty, and amendments to the International Health Regulations. “The General Director will be given much more discretion to declare a public health emergency and to maintain it without any mechanism that could stop him f...

Apr 08, 202444 min

Spike Protein Exposure and Clotting Pathologies Explained: Dr. Jordan Vaughn

“Most of the time when a doctor says there’s nothing wrong with you, what they’re really saying is: That doctor doesn’t know what’s wrong with you ... And I think doctors need to be more honest about that.” Dr. Jordan Vaughn is a physician of internal medicine and the CEO of MedHelp Clinics. During the pandemic, he noticed a pattern of abnormal clotting among his COVID patients, and saw other symptoms that few were discussing. “The spike protein has unique properties that allow clotting and clot...

Apr 06, 202443 min

Chad Wolf: Is the Federal Government Facilitating Child Trafficking?

“We’ve seen about 400,000 individuals being paroled into the United States … This is a historic abuse of the parole system,” says Chad Wolf, former Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and now executive director of the America First Policy Institute. What is the parole system and what is it meant for? What are the root causes of the crisis on the Southern border? How are current policies exacerbating it? And how are cartels exploiting the crisis? “We’re approaching about 500,0...

Apr 03, 202457 min

How Biden’s Policies Are Prolonging the Gaza War: Eugene Kontorovich

“Israel is fighting Iran on every front, so that America doesn’t have to.” In this episode, I sit down with Prof. Eugene Kontorovich, one of the world’s preeminent experts on the Israeli–Arab conflict, and a professor of international and constitutional law at George Mason University. We get an update on the situation in Gaza and the current status of the war, and try to separate fact from fiction. “Israel is ready to win this war. If Joe Biden had not told Israel, ‘Stand down. Don’t take out Ra...

Apr 03, 202442 min

New Jan. 6 Scandals: Julie Kelly on Destruction of Evidence and the DNC Pipe Bomb

“Think about this: If you’re going to do an investigation into January 6, who’s one of the first people you would call to testify, even behind closed doors? FBI Director Christopher Wray—they never interviewed him. They never interviewed Steven D'Antuono, who’s in charge of the Washington Field Office who oversaw the entire January 6 criminal investigation.” In this episode, I catch up with investigative journalist Julie Kelly to get an update on what we know, and still don’t know, about what ha...

Mar 29, 202428 min

Government Land Grabs, from ‘Natural Asset Companies’ to Agenda 2030: Margaret Byfield

“They’re trying to create this new asset class ... and they get to arbitrarily decide how much they are valued. So, it’s not that the marketplace is going to value them. It’s going to be a bureaucrat sitting in a room saying that the air you breathe is worth X, and the air I breathe is worth Y.” Margaret Byfield was raised on a 7,000-acre ranch in Nevada. For nearly 30 years, her family fought the federal government to maintain ownership of their property and its resources. But ultimately, the g...

Mar 27, 202444 min
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