American Thought Leaders

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American Thought Leaders Podcast

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.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    How Marxism Exploits Crises and Division: Mike Gonzalez and Katie Gorka

    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 Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “It’s not about improving the lot of anyone. It’s about power.” And what do these have to do with the industrialization of the West and America’s Great Society programs of the 1960s? “It was those programs that disadvantaged the family, and I think that’s really at the heart of the problem,” says Katie Gorka, chair of the Fairfax Republicans in Virginia. In this episode, I sit down with Gorka and Gonzalez to discuss their new book, “Next Gen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    47 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    The Real Battleground With China Is Ideological—And America Needs to Counterattack, Says John Lenczowski

    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 strategic deception? And why don’t more people know about them? “The Chinese have 600 front organizations operating in the United States today trying to influence all sorts of segments of our society,” he says. In this episode, we sit down to discuss America’s failure to understand the nature of the communist China threat, and what should be done to counter it. “The problem is that our foreign policy establishment is principally concerned with creating what I consider to be the false atmospherics of peace, rather than genuine peace,” he says. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    1h 10m

  3. 20 SEPT

    Reclaiming the Middle Ground: Jill Long Thompson’s Vision for a More Collaborative Congress

    “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 partisan benefit—have made people like her few and far between in Congress. “We are electing people who are either further to the right or further to the left,” she says. In this episode, Thompson makes the case for a return to bipartisan cooperation and civil discussion across the political divide. She’s the editor of and a contributor to the new book “Across the Aisle: Why Bipartisanship Works for America.” It features essays from a number of current and former members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    34 min

  4. 19 SEPT

    Dr. Marty Makary: When Medical Consensus Fails—From Low-Fat Diets to Peanut Bans to Overuse of Antibiotics

    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 exactly opposite of what the medical establishment pounded into pediatricians for 15 years,” he says. In this episode, we explore the culture of medical groupthink and cases where health recommendations have produced disastrous results, looking at diabetes, peanut allergies, opioids, C-sections, and the low-fat diet. “The medical establishment created a dogma in 1955 that fat was bad for your health. It was based on one guy: Dr. Ancel Keys,” says Dr. Makary. How can America reverse the trend of chronic disease and poor metabolic health? Is there any hope? “The foundation of the medical profession is not to have a one-size-fits-all. It’s always to consider nuance and to consider scientific detail,” says Dr. Makary. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    1h 6m

  5. 15 SEPT

    From Deep Fakes to Impersonation Networks, Inside China’s Aggressive Campaigns to Manipulate You: Sarah Cook

    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 says there are five key tactics the regime uses to influence our media and the global information space. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    59 min

  6. 14 SEPT

    Why Government Statistics Are Not Matching Up With Economic Realities: EJ Antoni

    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 today’s economic realities. “Essentially, a third of all the jobs we thought we had added over that year are gone. They never existed. It’s like taking four whole months of job creation and ripping them off the calendar,” says Antoni. Are the financial models no longer trustworthy? “We don’t see the numbers quite matching up to a lot of the government statistics,” says Antoni. “And we get into some very perverse situations where the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] actually counts something as an increase in quality when, in fact, it’s a decrease, and the consumer is paying more for it.” Antoni analyzes various indicators and inputs to determine what the real data reveals about the state of our economy. “Where I think this becomes scandalous is the fact that these statistical problems first became evident in the spring of 2022, so more than two years ago, and nothing has been done to correct them.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    58 min

  7. 9 SEPT

    What the First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Reveals: David Matas

    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 medical examinations revealed he was missing a large part of his liver and a portion of his left lung. And in a stunning admission, the Chinese regime has recently publicly acknowledged doctors operated on Cheng without his consent—supposedly to save his life. So what is the significance of this case? And what’s next? In this episode, I sit down with international human rights lawyer David Matas, who was among the first to independently investigate allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. I also speak to Robert Destro, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and was instrumental in getting Cheng to America; former Congressman Frank Wolf, a fierce champion of human rights in his three decades in Congress; and Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    33 min

  8. 6 SEPT

    Inside the Fentanyl Supply Chain: Michael Brown

    “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 Technology for Rigaku Analytical Devices. The cartels are now mass producing or have the capacity to mass produce multi-ton quantities of fentanyl, which is a direct indication that they’re receiving more precursor chemicals from China,” said Brown. We dug deep into the fentanyl crisis and illicit drug trade in the United States and got an insider’s look into the narcotic supply chain, from China, to Mexico, to the southern U.S. border. “We’ve passed the point of no return in terms of reducing addiction in rate to what’s coming into the country in terms of narcotics—meaning, until we can reduce the supply chain, we’re not going to be able to reduce the addiction rate,” said Brown. But how best to reduce the supply chain? Is it merely a matter of sealing our border? “We know that 98% of all the narcotics coming into the United States are transported in vehicles—in commercial cargo that come across the United States. So, for me, the vulnerability for the cartels is that transportation cross-border network that they have,” said Brown. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    24 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Jan Jekielek
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    205
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