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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The Libertarian View: Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver on China, the Border, and the Economy
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Chase Oliver is the Libertarian Party’s 2024 nominee for U.S. President. In this episode, we get his take on solving the border crisis, boosting the economy, and managing the threat of China and other adversaries. “Eventually, a lot of these countries do end up overthrowing their terrible, autocratic governments, and when they look for an example o…
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How Impoverished Nations Become Prosperous: Dr. Rainer Zitelmann
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Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is a German historian, sociologist, and the author of several books including, most recently, “How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity.” Why do certain countries that previously suffered under totalitarian regimes emerge stronger, economically, than others? What factors contribute to a nation’…
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Honoring Those on the Front Lines: Singer Five for Fighting on Writing Music With Morals
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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 John Ondrasik, also known by his stage name, Five for Fighting, is a Grammy-nominated recording artist who released several number-one hits in the early 2000s, including his single, “Superman,” which became widely kn…
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Inside China’s Largest Civil Disobedience Movement, and Why You Haven’t Heard of It: Larry Liu
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In China, a grassroots, underground movement of Chinese has been cutting through the communist regime’s censorship and propaganda machines—one pamphlet at a time. Since the Chinese communist regime launched a nationwide persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline 25 years ago, Falun Gong’s millions of adherents in China started creating secr…
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Slavery Still Exists Today–And Here Is Living Proof: Simon Deng and Charles Jacobs
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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 “I was born in a village where we were subjected to attacks on a monthly basis, or yearly basis. The government troops [would] come and burn down the villages—kill whoever that they will find. … When I see what happe…
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How Communist China Outsmarted Hollywood, the NBA, and US Businesses: Chris Fenton
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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 These days, Hollywood blockbusters aren’t making much money in the Chinese market anymore, even when they do make it past the regime’s censors. How come? And does that mean Hollywood self-censorship will stop? In thi…
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We Are Treating Each Other as ‘Political Abstractions,’ Chloe Valdary Has a Way to Fix That
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Chloé Valdary is the founder of an alternative model to the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training programs found in many corporations. Her alternative, called the “Theory of Enchantment,” first emerged from her work educating people about anti-Semitism and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. “They would say to you, ‘You are a white man, and…
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Why Many Scientific Findings Don’t Hold Up Under Scrutiny: Emily Kaplan
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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 “We don’t know who the peer reviewers are. Imagine opening a newspaper and there’s no masthead. You don’t know who any of the editors are? There’s no accountability for why this work got through or not?” In this epis…
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How Landmark SCOTUS Ruling on Chevron Deference Curbs Federal Agency Power: Philip Hamburger
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In a major decision last week, the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine in a 6–3 vote. Critics called Chevron the “Lord Voldemort” of administrative law. So what was Chevron deference exactly? How did it transform the federal government? And what are the implications of this recent Supreme Court decision? In this episode, I do a deep dive …
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Communist China’s ‘Backdoor’ Into America: Cleo Paskal
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There is a largely unknown U.S. territory that Chinese citizens can enter legally without a visa. China expert Cleo Paskal argues it’s an “open backdoor into the United States” that the Chinese communist regime can exploit. The area has seen problems with drug trafficking, birth tourism, controversial Chinese casinos, and allegations of corruption.…
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Hard Truths of the Foster Care Crisis: Neal Harmon and Demetrius Grosse on New Film ‘Sound of Hope’
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In 1997, in a small town in East Texas, Bishop W.C. Martin and his wife Donna felt moved to adopt two children from the foster care system. They went on to inspire other families in their church to do the same. In total, 22 families in the community adopted 77 children. This moving true story is depicted in the new Angel Studios film “Sound of Hope…
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Mark Skousen: America Has Been in a State of Permanent Inflation Since WWII
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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 “Within the law, rule of law, and in a robust competitive model, you want to maximize freedom ... Economic freedom, in the context of the rule of law, is the best formula for success and prosperity.” Mark Skousen is …
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Here’s How America Can Win the New Cold War: Matthew Kreonig and Dan Negrea
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When Ronald Reagan was a presidential candidate, he was asked about his strategy for the Cold War. He had a simple answer: “We win, and they lose.” Former President Reagan was crystal clear about the Soviet Union and its intentions, but today, few seem to understand the Chinese Communist Party’s true intentions towards America. “We Win, They Lose” …
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Dr. Ben Carson: There Is a War on the American Family
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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 “America used to be the shining city on the hill, and now it’s declining rather rapidly. I was in Europe last year talking to a number of people, and I said, ‘What do you think about America?’ And the answer I got wa…
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Is Hungary a ‘Democratic Backslider?’ Shea Bradley-Farrell Explains
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Shea Bradley-Farrell is president of Counterpoint Institute and author of “Last Warning to the West.” In this episode, we dive into Hungary’s atypical policies when it comes to immigration, family, and social issues. “I wanted to find out why Hungary had and how had it retained its unique identity and its love for its national sovereignty,” she say…
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The CCP’s 7 Pressure Points and How the US Can Leverage Them: Michael Sobolik
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“The fact that America’s foremost geopolitical adversary controls an app that about 170 million Americans use regularly means that the CCP can leverage the app to influence the political debate of Americans, and ultimately … degrade the integrity of our democracy,” says Michael Sobolik, senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and the a…
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How to Recover From the ‘Crisis of Meaning’ in the West: John Vervaeke
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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 “People don’t know where to go to cultivate wisdom. I will ask my students: ‘Where do you go for information?’ They‘ll hold up their cell phones right away. ‘Where do you go for knowledge?’ And they’re ... a little b…
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We Are Waging War Against Our Own Nature: Mary Harrington
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“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 togeth…
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Sen. Roger Marshall: US Must Stop Funding Dangerous Research with Communist China
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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 …
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Daryl Davis: Why I Befriend Neo-Nazis and the KKK
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“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 ideol…
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How Modern Medicine Abandoned Healing: Mihai Nadin
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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 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 …
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Scientists Opened Pandora’s Box, What Now? | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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“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 …
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The Secret Ratings Agencies That Control Media Advertising: Freddie Sayers
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“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-…
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Behind America’s Mental Health Disaster: Carrie Sheffield
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“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 …
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From Rock Star to Dissident: Winston Marshall
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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, whi…
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