American Thought Leaders
884 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 1K ratingsAt 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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Jennifer Sharp: Society Abandoned and Gaslit the Vaccine-Injured–Now I’m Telling Their Stories
January 14, 2023 00:18 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBToday, we sit down with filmmaker Jennifer Sharp. After being injured by a COVID-19 vaccine shot and meeting others in the same boat, she made the documentary film, “Anecdotals.” “I was told specifically by somebody: Your story is just an anecdote… So it’s really irresponsible for you to talk about it because you could stop people from being vaccinated, and you could be responsible for their death,” Sharp says. Her film “Anecdotals” tells the stories of the vaccine-injured, many of whom ar...
Adam Coleman: Overcoming a ‘Poisonous’ Society of Victims and Saviors
January 12, 2023 00:05 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB“My search for black identity was something that I actually enjoyed, until I started noticing that there was a level of animosity that comes with it that’s being preached. It is a celebration of being black and also is a rejection of ‘white.’” Adam Coleman is the founder of WrongSpeak Publishing and author of “Black Victim to Black Victor: Identifying the Ideologies, Behavioral Patterns, and Cultural Norms that Encourage a Victimhood Complex.” “Human existence is filled with struggle. It’s...
Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War
January 10, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBSponsor 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 Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the Chinese regime is...
How School Officials Secretly Transitioned My Daughter: January Littlejohn on the Gender Contagion Gripping Our Teens
January 08, 2023 22:57 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBI sit down with January Littlejohn, a parental rights advocate and mental health professional. In 2021, she filed a lawsuit against her daughter’s Florida school district after school officials met with her 13-year-old daughter—without Littlejohn’s consent—to discuss a six-page “gender support” plan. “It wasn’t just changing names and pronouns. They asked her which restroom she preferred to use. They asked her which sex she preferred to room with on overnight field trips. And then they did ...
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Self-Spreading Vaccines, Transhumanist Ideology, and Government Gag Orders—The New Technocracy Threatening Hippocratic Medicine and The Nuremberg Code
January 04, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 174 MBSponsor 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 “This is part of a broader proposal of potentially bypassing the informed consent process by putting mRNA gene-based technology in foods… You could have a salad and get vaccinated against potential biological threats.” `Dr. Aaron Kheriaty is a psychiatrist, medical ethicist, and author of “The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State.” He has ...
George Gilder on ‘Emergency Socialism,’ Accommodating Surprise, and Separating Power From Knowledge
January 04, 2023 00:32 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBNearly four decades after investor George Gilder’s book “Wealth and Poverty” helped shape the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, Gilder sits down to discuss his forthcoming book “Life After Capitalism.” “As Peter Thiel declares, in the past, when you went public as a company, you gained new influence and power and marketing ability, and new capital and freedom. Now, when you go public, you get nationalized. And you become a kind of instrument of government policy,” says Gilder. Gilder als...
Dr. Robert Malone: The New Battlefield Is Your Mind—Twitter Files, Fifth Generation Warfare, and the COVID Vaccine Psyops Campaign
January 01, 2023 23:39 - 1 hour - 69.2 MB“Is it 10 billion or 13 billion, in the United States alone, that was employed in this—what else can you call it—psyops campaign?… The government felt that it was acceptable to deploy these military-grade technologies against all of us to coerce, compel, and mandate that we accept an unlicensed product that turns out to not be safe nor effective,” says mRNA vaccine pioneer Dr. Robert Malone, author of the new book, “Lies My Gov’t Told Me: And the Better Future Coming.” In this episode, we d...
Enes Kanter Freedom: Why I Sacrificed My Future in the NBA to Stand Up to the Chinese Regime
December 29, 2022 01:24 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBHow can the biggest dictatorship in the world control a 100 percent American-made organization and put pressure on them to fire an American citizen?” I sit down with NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom. After playing 11 seasons, his career abruptly ended when he made headlines, speaking out about human rights abuses in China. “NBA is not the only one,” says Freedom. “You see Hollywood, you see Big Tech, you see academia, you see Wall Street, you see Congress … They’re pretty much trying to inva...
David Bernstein: How Woke Ideology Provides the ‘Perfect Template for Antisemitism to Thrive’
December 24, 2022 02:29 - 40 minutes - 75 MB“When you have an ideology that pretends to know exactly who the oppressors are and who are the oppressed, and you have an ideology that conflates success with oppression … then Jews who do, on average, better than the mean, are going to be viewed as oppressors.” For decades, David Bernstein has served in senior roles at major Jewish organizations. But when he saw the effect that woke ideology was having on these institutions, he decided to tackle the problem head-on and start a new nonprof...
Cleo Paskal: Inside CCP Entropic Warfare, From Shipping Fentanyl to Bribing Elites to Fueling Civil Wars
December 23, 2022 02:28 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB“The overt, stated goal of China is to be number one in the world in terms of comprehensive national power … In a relative sense, if you’ve knocked [other countries] down, you’re doing better than they are. So this explains, for example, why from a comprehensive national power perspective, it is beneficial to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to pump fentanyl into middle America,” says Cleo Paskal, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Fentanyl “destroys communities....
EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aseem Malhotra: How the COVID-19 Vaccines Impact the Heart
December 20, 2022 01:06 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBI sit down with two leading cardiologists from two sides of the Atlantic, Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aseem Malhotra, to understand how the COVID-19 vaccines impact the body, especially the heart. “There has been a suggestion—and I think this is probably subterfuge from the PR industry of pharma—that mild COVID may be causing all the sudden cardiac deaths. And the evidence is just not there for that at all,” says Malhotra. Once an outspoken advocate of the COVID-19 genetic vaccines, Malhot...
Ashley Yablon: How I Exposed a CCP Tech Giant’s Elaborate Scheme to Evade US Sanctions
December 20, 2022 00:44 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB“As I was scrolling through it, I saw a section of the contract that was titled, ‘How we will get around U.S. export laws’ … And I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw that, and I knew that I needed to do something,” says attorney and whistleblower Ashley Yablon. In 2011, Yablon landed his dream job working as general counsel for ZTE, a multi-billion dollar Chinese telecom company subsidized by the regime. He quickly learned, however, that ZTE was under investigation for breaking U.S. san...
How China’s Operation Rooms Became Execution Grounds: Dr. Torsten Trey on the CCP’s Lucrative Organ Trade
December 14, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBSixteen years ago, the first whistleblowers emerged from China with a story few could believe: the Chinese communist regime was killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs. What have we learned since then? I sit down with Dr. Torsten Trey, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, which just released the special report “Forced Organ Harvesting From Living People in China.” “Living people are killed for their organs … Executions were sh...
Dr. Aseem Malhotra: From Vaccine Pusher to Vaccine Debunker—How I Changed My Mind About the COVID-19 Jab
December 12, 2022 11:45 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB“Once I had spent time critically analyzing the data on the COVID-19 vaccines, it became very clear to me that the efficacy of this particular novel technology … was very, very poor, certainly in comparison to traditional vaccines. And the harms were unprecedented,” says Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a highly-published cardiologist and one of the most well-known doctors in Britain. He was an outspoken proponent of the COVID-19 genetic vaccines until July 2021, when the tragic and sudden death of his ...
Dr. Tess Lawrie: COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Inflammation in ‘Every Organ and Tissue of the Body’
December 12, 2022 01:02 - 50 minutes - 93.3 MBSponsor 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’s a loophole that they’ve slipped through in the regulatory process, because most drugs require pharmacokinetic studies … And that has not been done with the COVID-19 vaccines,” says Dr. Tess Lawrie, co-founder of the World Council for Health. Pharmacokinetics is the study of how a drug behaves in a patient’s body, how it distributes, and how long it ...
Miranda Devine: The Concerted Cover-Up of Biden Family Scandals—From the Laptop to China
December 09, 2022 23:04 - 55 minutes - 101 MBSponsor 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 Note: This episode was recorded before Elon Musk began releasing internal Twitter communications, known as the Twitter Files. “There are a lot of secrets that a lot of powerful people don’t want told about exactly how our story was suppressed—how Joe Biden was protected from that information before the election…it’s very high stakes.” Today I sit down with...
From Asylum Fraud to Mexican Ant Operations: Todd Bensman on Biden’s Migrant Advocacy Industrial Complex
December 07, 2022 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB“We are in the midst of the greatest border crisis in U.S. history, by every metric,” says Todd Bensman. “When Title 42 goes away, this will spur 18,000 a day crossing. We’re at about 7,500 a day now.” Todd Bensman is an award-winning field journalist and a national security fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. He’s the author of “America’s Covert Border War” and the forthcoming book “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.” “A school distric...
‘Most Significant Protests Since 1989’: Benedict Rogers—Is China at a Turning Point?
December 01, 2022 23:51 - 43 minutes - 79.3 MBSponsor 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 “It looks to me as if these are the most significant protests since 1989, and they are, I think, a boiling over of not just frustration at the very draconian COVID lockdowns, but actually rebellion against the very severe repression, the surveillance state that has developed under Xi Jinping over the last decade,” says Benedict Rogers, chief executive of Hong...
Dr. James Thorp: What Pfizer’s Internal Data Reveals About Vaccines and Pregnancy
December 01, 2022 19:45 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB“Of the 270 pregnant women, 238 were not followed up. And of the data that they did present with a miscarriage … it was 80 percent miscarriage rate,” says Dr. James Thorp. The calculation that Pfizer documents revealed an 80 percent miscarriage rate was first reported by Daily Clout/War Room researchers in the spring of 2022. “The federal government, the CDC, and the FDA—they’re corrupt. They sat on that data,” Thorp says. Thorp is an OBGYN and fetal medicine specialist who sees upwards of...
Jennifer Sey: Wokeism Is a Costume Elites Wear to Pretend They Care About Social Justice
November 29, 2022 01:47 - 1 hour - 128 MBSponsor 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 a traitor to what has become almost like a religion … which maniacally upheld these ideals that COVID restrictions were for the good of the masses, when in fact, they were doing such great harm.” We sit down with Jennifer Sey, who was on track to become CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. after becoming chief marketing officer and brand president. Her advocacy ...
‘This Has Cost Millions of Lives’: Steve Kirsch on Suppression of Repurposed Drugs and a Spike in Deaths 5 Months After Vaccine Rollout
November 25, 2022 02:51 - 1 hour - 131 MBSponsor 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 clue was the embalmers. The clue was the insurance companies. The embalmers never saw anything until midway in 2021. And then they started seeing these massive clots … It only started six months into the vaccination program,” says Steve Kirsch, the executive director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation. Kirsch argues there are two peaks of vaccine...
Ben Cort: The Truth About the Marijuana Industry and the Terrifying Effects of High-Potency THC
November 23, 2022 11:30 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB“Ten years ago … the idea of physical addiction to cannabis was absolutely laughable. That people would be having psychotic episodes, and then psychotic breaks, just from THC? It was unfathomable.” Ben Cort is the CEO of the Foundry Treatment Center and author of “Weed, Inc.: The Truth About the Pot Lobby, THC, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry.” “If one pictures their body as the cannabis plant, originally THC was about the size of our big toe,” says Cort. “By the mid-2000s, [it] was ...
Raymond Ibrahim: Why Christians Are Disappearing From the Middle East
November 23, 2022 01:25 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MB“Dozens of Christians are massacred … macheted to death, locked in their churches and burned alive.” Raymond Ibrahim, author of the new book “Defenders of the West,” has been tracking persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries for decades—from Nigeria to Iran. He says this pattern has become so routine, widespread, and violent that it constitutes what he calls a “drip genocide.” Ibrahim discusses the history of Christians in the Middle East, growing anti-Christian sentiment in ...
Vivek Ramaswamy Exposes the ‘Greatest Form of Institutionalized Racism in the United States Today’
November 19, 2022 00:53 - 48 minutes - 88.3 MB“We have this victimhood metastasis where everyone wants to think of themselves as a victim,” says entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. “We have to recognize there is no winner in America’s oppression Olympics.” Ramaswamy is the author of the 2021 bestselling book, “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam.” “Affirmative action is the systemic racism that’s still here in America today,” he says. “And I’m sorry to say, it will then create the new kind of anti-black racism that we...
Why Are There No Lower Age Limits for Puberty Blockers, Hormones, and Gender-Transition Surgeries?—Dr. Miriam Grossman | PART 2
November 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBIn part one of my interview with Dr. Miriam Grossman, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, we discussed the origins of gender ideology and how this ideology has spread across the fields of pediatric medicine, psychology, psychiatry, and education. Now in part two, we discuss the guidelines for treating gender dysphoria in the United States and how they are radically different from standards in other countries like the United Kingdom or Sweden. What should parents do if their child says the...
Dr. Miriam Grossman: How One Doctor’s Lies Built the Gender Industry | PART 1
November 14, 2022 23:36 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBSponsor 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’re experimenting on the body, and people are paying a huge, massively high price for these medical experimentations,” says Dr. Miriam Grossman, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and author of “You’re Teaching My Child What?” In this two-part episode, we dive into the origins of gender ideology, why there is a growing push in America to teach even kin...
Bobbie Anne Cox: How I Secured a Landmark Victory Suing the Governor of New York Over ‘Quarantine Camp’ Regulation
November 08, 2022 00:59 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB“I was told, ‘Why are you doing this? You’re gonna ruin your career … you can’t win. You can’t beat the governor.’” A real estate lawyer in New York for over two decades, Bobbie Anne Cox shifted gears after seeing government officials unwilling to let go of emergency powers they gained during the pandemic. She recently secured a landmark victory against New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial “quarantine camps” regulation. “So, they basically took the language from that bill that ha...
‘They Became Blinded by Ideology’: Richard Baris Talks Midterm Predictions and the Weaponization of Polling
November 05, 2022 02:18 - 51 minutes - 47 MB“The overwhelming sentiment is a sentiment that things cost too much, things are out of control, and that we need to make a change,” says Big Data Poll director Richard Baris, a data journalist and host of the “Inside the Numbers” podcast. Going into the midterm elections, “half of the electorate or more is citing economic issues” as their top concern, Baris says. Baris tells us what he sees on the ground in key battleground states and why a lot of polling these days is simply inaccurate. ...
Dr. Meryl Nass: More Vaccine Deaths Reported to VAERS in the Last 20 Months Than All Vaccines in the Last 30 Years Combined
November 02, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB“The FDA was instructed by a federal judge to revoke the license … because it had never been shown to be safe or effective,” says Dr. Meryl Nass, referring to regulation of the anthrax vaccine in the late 1990s. Nass, a physician of internal medicine, began her research into pandemics 30 years ago, with a focus on anthrax vaccines and biological warfare. From the Rhodesian Civil War to the 2009 swine flu, she says she saw a profit-driven push for mass vaccination. In many cases, the public ...
Michael Pillsbury: How US Government Agencies Secretly Aided Communist China’s Rise
November 01, 2022 23:12 - 1 hour - 133 MB“I fear they’re outsmarting us over and over again,” says China expert Michael Pillsbury, director for Chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute and author of “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower.” Pillsbury played a key role in the United States initiating military and intelligence ties with China, starting in the 1980s. Many relationships between Chinese and U.S. agencies have continued to this day, Pillsbury says. “Some things ha...
‘The Medical Profession Has Been Destroyed’: Dr. Richard Amerling on Following the ‘Guidelines,’ Research Malpractice, and the Medical School Paradigm
October 28, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MB“We’ve given up authority to central bodies of so-called experts, all of whom have agendas. The entire process is bought and paid for. If we don’t take back our authority as physicians, it’s all over,” says Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist for over 30 years and a current board member and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “There’s massive over-prescribing,” Amerling says. “The model that we have adopted now is to not reverse the disease, but to rather...
Dr. Paul Marik: Spike-Related Diseases, Gaslighting of the Vaccine Injured, and the Suppression of Early Treatment
October 27, 2022 22:02 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBSponsor 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 spike protein is probably one of the most toxic proteins the human body has ever seen. … If you have long COVID, you absolutely want to avoid being vaccinated.” Today I sit down with Dr. Paul Marik, one of the most highly published critical care physicians in the world. He’s a co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance. “If we had ado...
From ‘Wildfire Cancers’ to Foot-Long Clots, Dr. Ryan Cole Explains the Dangers of the Spike Protein
October 25, 2022 02:16 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBSponsor special: Up to $1,500 of free silver on your first order for all American Thought Leaders listeners - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 I sit down again with pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole for an update on the alarming trends he and his colleagues have seen since the rollout of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, including the rise of “wildfire cancers” and the emergence of large blood clots. “The cells don’t lie. The clots don’t lie. The damaged organs don’t lie,” Cole says. C...
EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Joseph Ladapo on Why He’s Not Recommending mRNA COVID Vaccines for Healthy, Young Men—‘People Deserve Honesty’
October 21, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBFlorida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo recently advised healthy men aged 18 to 39 not to get the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. An analysis by Florida’s Department of Health found sharp increases in cardiac-related deaths post-vaccination. In this episode, he explains in detail what he and his department found. We also discuss his personal journey to where he is today, how he overcame trauma from sexual abuse as a child, and how he found the strength to go against the grain when it came to COVI...
Nicolas Chaillan: The CCP Is Using TikTok to Manipulate Americans and Gather Data for AI Weapons
October 21, 2022 01:28 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBTikTok is one of the Chinese regime’s most powerful weapons of mass manipulation and misinformation, argues Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. TikTok was the most downloaded app globally and in the United States in 2021. The Chinese regime is using TikTok to manipulate Americans—particularly the younger generations, Chaillan says. And it’s gathering enormous amounts of data, from voice prints to face prints, to power the next generation of...
From Gender Theory Guides to ‘Transition’ Questionnaires–Florida State Rep. Joe Harding on the Fight for Parental Rights in Education
October 18, 2022 01:27 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBOn this episode of American Thought Leaders, we sit down with Florida state Rep. Joe Harding, who spearheaded Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill. “As young as kindergarten, there were resource guides out there telling teachers, telling educators how to talk to children about their pronouns,” Harding says. “These guides were not being voted on in public meetings. These guys were being put forth with an agenda by activist groups.” He shares the impetus for the bill, how the bill is ...
Are COVID Vaccines Just the Tip of the Iceberg?—Kim Witczak on the ’Spider Web’ of Corruption in the Drug Safety System
October 14, 2022 11:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB“My brother-in-law went home and googled ‘Zoloft’ and ‘suicide,’ and we were shocked. There were hearings in 1991, when it was just Prozac on the market, with the exact same issue.” After being happily married for almost 10 years, Kim Witczak’s husband shockingly committed suicide, shortly after he was prescribed an anti-depressant off-label for insomnia. “I intuitively, at the deepest part of me, knew there was no way that Woody … would take his own life,” says Witczak. For almost 20 yea...
‘Bigotry of Low Expectations’—Dr. Zuhdi Jasser Talks Iran Protests, Islamist Ideology, and Islamic Reform
October 13, 2022 21:34 - 53 minutes - 97.8 MBSponsor special: Up to $1,500 of free silver on your first order for all American Thought Leaders listeners - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 On this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sat down with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a practicing physician, proud Muslim, and the founder of multiple organizations aimed at countering the threat of political Islam, more commonly referred to as “Islamism.” “The hypocrisy of the left, the feminists, and others in their claim to be about wo...
Attorney Jeff Childers on How He Won Against Mask and Vaccine Mandates, and Inspired Other Lawyers to Do the Same
October 10, 2022 18:18 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBSponsor special: Up to $1,500 of free silver on your first order for all American Thought Leaders listeners - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “I told them what I was doing. And every single one of them said, Jeff, why are you throwing your career away over this?” When COVID-19 hit, Jeff Childers, a bankruptcy attorney in Gainesville, Florida, found himself stunned by the sudden imposition of a mandatory mask mandate. He launched himself into constitutional law and got the...
Kari Lake: The Assault on Patriotism and the Fight to Restore the American Dream
October 10, 2022 05:15 - 49 minutes - 45 MB“Our border … is in the operational control of narcoterrorists, the cartels … You don’t have to go that far back to remember the Opium Wars. You bring down a dynasty with drugs … They’re hitting us with the drugs pouring in, killing 100,000 or more last year,” says Kari Lake: The Assault on Patriotism and the Fight to Restore the American Dream. Prior to running, she was a television news anchor for more than two decades. We take a deeper look into her motivations, her policy proposals, and...
Are We in a Cold Civil War?: David Reaboi on ‘Elite Mentality,’ Concepts of Justice, and the Left’s ‘Self-Radicalizing Ice Cream Cone’
October 06, 2022 01:20 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBOn this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sat down with Claremont Institute fellow David Reaboi at the National Conservatism Conference in Florida to discuss the broader impact that progressive ideology is having on America. “We’re seeing the necessary consequence of, let’s say, ‘radical left thought’ over the last 50 years really in full bloom,” says Reaboi. “We’re living in a place now, or an America now, where the most grave threat to our lives and liberties come not from a foreign ...
Why Did Activism Take Over Journalism?—Amber Athey Cuts Through the Information War
October 05, 2022 06:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB“These corporate outlets have really blurred the lines so aggressively that people can’t even tell the difference anymore between who is actually trying to impart truth and who is trying to impart an agenda,” says Amber Athey, The Spectator’s Washington editor and a senior fellow at the Steamboat Institute. How did activism take over journalism? And what will it take to cut through the information war? “Their power comes in their stranglehold on information. And if they don’t have that any...
The TikTok Trojan Horse and China’s Long Arm of Artificial Intelligence: Geoffrey Cain
October 01, 2022 01:45 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBIn this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sit down with Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning journalist, technologist, and author of “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.” “Everybody was constantly being watched by an artificial intelligence system, which was called the IJOP,” says Cain, referring to a pre-crime surveillance platform that the Chinese Communist Party launched in Xinjiang to predictively police the popul...
Alan Dershowitz: Liberal Democracy Dies When Illiberalism Wins
September 30, 2022 11:54 - 57 minutes - 104 MBIn this episode of American Thought Leaders, Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz discusses his book, “The Price of Principle: Why Integrity is Worth the Consequences,” and argues that “unprincipled” partisanship has taken over America. “How dare they call themselves progressives,” says Dershowitz. “They are regressive. They are reactionaries. They are repressors.” One of the top constitutional lawyers in the country, and a self-described liberal Democrat, Dershowitz has been exc...
Hunter Biden Story ‘Made for Cinema’—Star Laurence Fox Talks ‘My Son Hunter’
September 27, 2022 00:57 - 36 minutes - 33 MB“If it’s the last job I ever do—which at the moment, it looks like it is—I’m proud of it,” says British actor Laurence Fox. He is the star of the new film “My Son Hunter” and leader of the UK’s Reclaim Party. “It’s almost as if the Hunter Biden story was made for cinema,” Fox says. We discuss the making of the film, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and the growing assault on free speech and objective truth. Fox faced the brunt of cancel culture after pushing back on claims that the UK is ...
ESG Could ‘Become Part of Our Credit Scores’: W.Va. State Treasurer Riley Moore on Ending Contracts With Companies Adopting ESG
September 24, 2022 02:23 - 37 minutes - 68.1 MBSponsor special: Up to $1,500 of free silver on your first order for all American Thought Leaders listeners - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “So, there’s a big game kind of going on here, but they’re making a killing off of these ESG products. And why are they able to do that? Well, they’re charging you a little bit more to make you feel better and you’re doing something about the environment. … But they’re raking it in.” ESG stands for “environmental, social, and govern...
Clyde Prestowitz: How American Companies Became Subservient to Beijing and How to Stop It With Industrial Policy
September 23, 2022 02:20 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MB“Because everything it makes is in China … China can compel Apple to do whatever it pleases … And it’s not just Apple. Many major American companies are highly reliant on production in China, and all of them are subject to coercion by the Chinese Communist Party.” At the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, Florida, I sat down with leading China expert Clyde Prestowitz, who led the first U.S. trade mission to China in 1982. Prestowitz is the author of “The World Turned Upside Down: Am...
Rod Dreher: What Happens When a Society Loses the Desire to Know the Truth?
September 21, 2022 01:05 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB"Hannah Arendt, the great political philosopher of the 20th century, said that when a society loses the desire to know the truth, that is a precursor to totalitarianism. And I think that has happened on both the left and the right.” Rod Dreher is the author of “Live Not By Lies” and a senior editor at The American Conservative. At a time of rampant propaganda and disinformation, how do we get at the truth? “This whole corrupt system depends on everyone being willing to nod their heads and ...
‘Setting the Table for Famine’—Michael Yon on the Energy Crisis, Food Shortages, Price Inflation, and the Human ‘South-Stream Pipeline’ to the US
September 17, 2022 02:33 - 52 minutes - 96.7 MBSponsor special: Up to $1,500 of free silver on your first order for all American Thought Leaders listeners - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 "They’ve surrendered their sovereignty to the people in Brussels, and the people in Brussels are leading us into a global catastrophe,” says war correspondent Michael Yon. Yon has been traveling throughout Europe, investigating and reporting on an alarming pattern of events. According to Yon, the farming crisis in the Netherlands is...
Nicole Levitt: Woke Ideology Is Corrupting the Mission of My Employer, One of the Largest Domestic Violence Nonprofits in America
September 13, 2022 22:16 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB“There was no way I was going to sign a statement saying that I was racist or that all white people were racist or that all of any race was anything. So I refused to sign it.” Nicole Levitt, an attorney who represents domestic violence survivors, recently filed a discrimination complaint against her employer, Women Against Abuse, for, among other things, asking white staffers to sign declarations that all white people are racist, including themselves, she says. She shares her story with us...