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American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

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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43:24

Restoring Free Speech in Academia: Jay Bhattacharya

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/11/19

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 are allowed to be said in polite society, if you will,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy and the lead organizer of the

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01:01:08

An Economic Storm May Be Coming—Here’s What Trump Can...

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/11/19

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’m sitting down with Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. He’s also a columnist at The Epoch Times, where he writes daily

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52:13

Death on Demand? Wesley J. Smith Explains the...

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2024/11/13

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 this kind of approach to dying as opposed to natural death.”In this episode, I sit down with Wesley J. Smith, a lawyer, public speaker, award-winning

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49:07

Exposing an Illegal Chinese Immigration Hub Run by a...

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2024/11/12

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 senior investigative reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.He has been investigating Chinese illegal immigration networks, in particular an online

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52:19

What Is Psywar? Dr. Robert Malone Explains

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/11/08

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 technology that is so powerful and effective that you’re literally reprogramming their mind without their consent,” says Dr. Malone. “The battleground is your

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01:05:35

China Uncensored: Exposing the CCP’s Narrative...

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2024/11/05

“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.Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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32:27

Will the World Lock Down Again in the Next Pandemic?...

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/11/01

“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 Bardosh. He is a medical anthropologist and the director of Collateral Global, a London-based think tank focused on improving pandemic response around the

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01:00:57

N.S. Lyons: The Growing Impulse Towards Societal...

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2024/10/30

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 opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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42:04

Why We Need Legislation to Reduce the Risk of...

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2024/10/26

“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 that’s trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes, occasionally, what you‘ll do is you’ll say things that are technically correct, but it’s used to

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54:57

Our Boys Are Falling Behind. Why? Asks Warren Farrell

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2024/10/25

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, including “The Myth of Male Power” and “Why Men Earn More.”In “The Boy Crisis,” the authors detailed how boys have been falling behind in many key metrics of

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31:07

Key Vulnerabilities in US Elections: Hans von Spakovsky

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2024/10/23

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 system, from ballot harvesting to outdated voter rolls to lack of citizen verification processes.“The biggest problem across the country is that we have an

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33:40

Mikhaila Fuller: Classical Education Is Disappearing....

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2024/10/19

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2In 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, and free from political bias.“Part of the reason we put this together was to try to give people an education that’s just true, we hope—so what you’re

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32:41

How Regenerative Farming Can Help Solve America’s...

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2024/10/17

“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 industrial systems that has been sterilized, and we’re not replenishing our microbiology when we’re eating the foods of the current systems,” she says.“This is

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40:53

Beating Heart Disease: Dr. Aseem Malhotra on What...

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/10/12

Dr. Aseem Malhotra is a world-renowned British cardiologist and a best-selling author of several books. After losing his father to a heart attack after taking the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Malhotra began speaking out about the corporatization of medicine, and how it’s making us sicker.“We have well over 60 percent of the adult population now overweight or obese. I would take it further and say that 88 percent of Americans have abnormal metabolic health markers,” he says. “The benefit of a statin over a

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47:58

The New Sino-Iranian Alliance Taking Over Latin...

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/10/11

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 Foundation. An expert on asymmetric warfare, he has been looking closely at Latin America for 20 years.“The Sino-Iranian connection, in many respects, is

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58:07

Welcome to ‘Post-Journalism’: How Polarization Became...

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2024/10/09

“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 take the Russia story where [Trump] was supposed to have been basically Vladimir Putin’s agent, [the New York Times] published at least 3,000 (by my estimate)

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01:09:35

China’s Hegemonic Ambitions, From Taiwan to the Moon:...

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2024/10/07

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 this episode, I sit down with Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. He specializes in understanding the Chinese

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50:18

Florida Surgeon General Ladapo: Why I’m Not...

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2024/10/04

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2In 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 the world that these are these are not products that we recommend they put in their bodies,” he says.We dive into the latest studies and data surrounding the

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52:01

Gordon Chang on Chinese Agents, Clashes With...

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/09/30

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 packs of single males, groups of five to 15, military-age, traveling without family members, some of them pretending not to speak English. And as Chairman

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01:04

Sharyl Attkisson: My Investigations of Medical...

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/09/30

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2Sharyl 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, Obscures, and Prevails.”“Why am I as a non-medical reporter unearthing stories that this whole industry of medical and science reporters are not unearthing?”

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