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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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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What the First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Reveals: David Matas
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The first known survivor of China’s state-run forced organ harvesting regime recently went public with his story in Washington. Peiming Cheng, who was imprisoned for 8 years and brutally tortured for practicing Falun Gong, was also forced to undergo surgery in November 2004. He woke up with a foot-long scar across his side. Subsequent comprehensive…
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Inside the Fentanyl Supply Chain: Michael Brown
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“Currently, there is a surplus of fentanyl pills in America. The surplus, I believe, is driving increased addiction rates, because now fentanyl pill prices are going down. Drug usage is going up. Addiction rates are going up.” In this episode, I sat down with Michael Brown, a former DEA special agent and the current director of Counter-Narcotics Te…
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How a Tiny Country Launched a Tech Revolution: George Gilder
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We’ve heard a lot about how Israel is a beneficiary and dependent on the United States. But is that really the case? “Our economy is heavily dependent on Israel. And there’s this illusion that really irritates me—that somehow Israel is a dependent of the U.S., or some kind of abusive child or something. But Israel really gives us far more than they…
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Is Social Security Reaching a Dead End?–Star Parker
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“When [social security] was first established, you had 40 workers for every retiree. Today, we have three workers for every retiree. You also have people living longer, and you have all people forced into this system that they don’t own … and they can’t transfer it to their heirs,” says Star Parker. She is the founder and president of the Center fo…
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Venezuela’s Flawed Elections and Latin America’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Eric Patterson
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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 promises of the American experiment and liberty are still what people want, and they are most in tune with what does it mean to be an authentic human being. Communism, on the other hand—it only works by force. I…
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China’s Step-by-Step Takeover of the South China Sea: Grant Newsham
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“What you’re seeing in the Philippines is one more step in China’s effort to tighten its control over all parts of the South China Sea,” says retired U.S. Marine Col. Grant Newsham, an expert on the Asia-Pacific region and a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. In recent clashes near the submerged reef known as the Second Thomas Shoal, …
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America’s Debt Is Growing Faster Than Its Economy. Is This Sustainable?—W. Bruce Lee
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W. Bruce Lee is the executive director of the Phoenix Correspondence Commission, the first nationwide convention of states since 1861. It’s a little known government body owned by all 50 states organized to provide another check on the federal government. “After 40-some odd years of no progress in Congress, the states are being looked at as the sol…
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What the Media Is Leaving Out of Its Reporting on Crime: John Lott
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In this episode, I sit down with John Lott, founder and president of The Crime Prevention Research Center, to discuss his extensive research into national crime rates, arrest rates, as well as gun permit laws and how they impact crime. “In 2022, the last year that we have the National Crime Victimization data for, while the FBI showed a 2 percent d…
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Here’s What a Chinese EMP Attack on Taiwan Could Look Like: Greg Autry
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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 Space policy expert Greg Autry believes the Chinese communist regime may be looking at targeting Taiwan with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon attack. What would such an attack look like, and why might an EMP be …
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Elon Musk Has Been Sounding the Alarm on Birthrates. Is He Onto Something?–Catherine Pakaluk
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Why are people in developed economies having fewer and fewer children? Is it really because raising children is too expensive? Or are there other factors at play? How will declining population rates affect Western economies and societies? And why are some families bucking this trend, and having five, six, seven, or even eight children? How does hav…
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Recession Frenzy Is Missing the Point: Jeffrey Tucker on Skewed Data and the Root Causes of Our Economic Woes
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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 end of the U.S. dollar gold standard in 1971 had unexpected, far-reaching consequences for the United States and its adversaries, ones that are central to today’s economic and geopolitical realities. What happene…
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