American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek
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American Thought Leaders

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

    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.

    1 h 1 min

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    Why We Need Legislation to Reduce the Risk of Lab-Generated Pathogens: Dr. Bryce Nickels

    “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 deceive. And that’s what’s been going on for this use of the term ‘gain-of-function,’” says Dr. Nickels. In this episode, we discuss the Risky Research Review Act—legislation that, if passed, would establish an independent review board to assess whether the benefits of gain-of-function research outweigh the risks and determine whether that research should be done in the first place. “They believe that what they’re doing is so important that it’s okay to lie,” says Nickels, referring to how scientific and government leaders hid critical information about the origins of COVID from the public. “We want to make there be incentives to tell the truth, not to hide the truth.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    42 min

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    Our Boys Are Falling Behind. Why? Asks Warren Farrell

    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 success and happiness. Boys dropped out from school at higher rates, died from suicide and drug overdoses at higher rates, and committed school shootings at higher rates than girls. In this interview, I wanted to get an update from Farrell on where things have progressed since they wrote their book. We also dive into some key wisdom for strengthening relationships and communication from his latest book “Role Mate to Soul Mate,” in which he compiles his findings from decades of counseling couples. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    55 min

  4. 23 OCT.

    Key Vulnerabilities in US Elections: Hans von Spakovsky

    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 honor system for registering, so states are not doing anything to verify that you actually are a U.S. citizen,” 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.

    31 min

  5. 19 OCT.

    Mikhaila Fuller: Classical Education Is Disappearing. It’s Time to Change That

    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, 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 supposed to be learning in history and in humanities and in science, math, etc.—just basic education,” Fuller says. We dive into the different professors and courses at Peterson Academy, what they are trying to achieve, and their plans for the future. “We’re getting top professors from institutions and we’re not telling them how to teach. We’re saying, ‘Teach this course if it was exactly the way you’d want to teach it, without guidelines from somebody else put on you.' And we have chosen professors carefully that don’t have a political bent. So it’s mostly trying to avoid woke ideology and politics in courses that shouldn’t necessarily be political. That’s how we’re trying to navigate it,” Fuller says. Views expressed in this video are the opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    34 min

  6. 17 OCT.

    How Regenerative Farming Can Help Solve America’s Metabolic Disease Problem: Mollie Engelhart

    “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 not a future crisis that we need to talk about ... this is happening right now.” In this episode, we’ll take an in-depth tour of the Sovereignty Ranch and learn why Engelhart believes regenerative agriculture is the best way forward for humans, animals, and the planet. “We can’t just depend on rice from China, and wheat from Ukraine, and lentils from Africa,” she says. Having these hubs that are growing food for the community—that is real resilience, and that is real security. And that is what I want to bring back.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times

    33 min

  7. 11 OCT.

    The New Sino-Iranian Alliance Taking Over Latin America: Joseph Humire

    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 probably the most dangerous one, even more so than the Sino-Russian connection, which is more talked about, I think, in foreign affairs,” says Humire. In this episode, we dive into how the China–Iran–Russia coalition is influencing the region, from Venezuela to Bolivia. We also discuss how this is impacting America and the greater Western world. “If you think China is simply doing this for economic ambitions, you’re not reading the tea leaves on how China operates. They’re buying a country. They’re buying the sovereignty of this country,” says Humire. “Fundamentally, China is making Latin America a region more inhospitable to the United States.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    48 min

  8. 9 OCT.

    Welcome to ‘Post-Journalism’: How Polarization Became the Business Model–Martin Gurri

    “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) stories on Trump being manipulated by the Russians. … They got millions and millions of subscribers because of that,” Gurri says. He’s the author of the “The Fifth Wave” Substack column and author of “The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium.” In this episode, we dive into the radical transformation of the media and information ecosystems. 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
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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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    Jan Jekielek
  • Années d’activité
    2019 - 2024
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