American Thought Leaders

By The Epoch Times

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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.

Episode Date
What’s Really Happening at the CDC? | Dr. Robert Malone
Sep 04, 2025
How Euthanasia Became an Epidemic in Canada | Amanda Achtman
Sep 03, 2025
John Rich Explains Story Behind ‘The Devil and the TVA’
Aug 30, 2025
Why Isolationists and Interventionists Are Both Wrong | Yoram Hazony
Aug 29, 2025
How the CCP Dupes the West—and We Keep Falling for It | Chenggang Xu
Aug 27, 2025
9 Years Later, Here’s What We Know About the Origins of the Russia Probe | John Solomon
Aug 23, 2025
How Hollywood Alienated Middle America—And What’s Next | Nick Searcy
Aug 22, 2025
I Met the Syrian President, and Here’s What I Learned | Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Aug 20, 2025
These Are the Signs Xi Is Losing Power in China | Gordon Chang
Aug 16, 2025
The Movie Beijing Doesn’t Want You to See | Yan Ma
Aug 15, 2025
Impact of Trump’s Trade, Tax, Energy Policies | Mark Skousen
Aug 13, 2025
The Silent War of Cyber, Resources, and Opinion | Gen. Robert Spalding
Aug 09, 2025
Is Overprescription Fueling Veteran Suicides? | Derek Blumke
Aug 08, 2025
How Clay Clark Helped Small Businesses Survive—and Thrive—During the Pandemic and Beyond
Aug 06, 2025
How Money Interests Influence the Newsroom: Sharyl Attkisson
Aug 03, 2025
How One State Is Taking on the Chinese Communist Party: Oklahoma’s Gov. Kevin Stitt
Aug 01, 2025
How the CCP and Its Proxies Created a ‘World on Fire’: Col. John Mills
Jul 30, 2025
Michael Flynn on Declassified Russia Investigation Documents
Jul 27, 2025
How Traffickers Prey on America’s Youth: Jaco Booyens
Jul 25, 2025
Surveilled, Silenced, and Smeared: How Parents Became ‘Domestic Terrorists’ | Kelly Walker and Sam Sorbo
Jul 23, 2025
The Harrowing Realities of Uyghur Life in China: Rushan Abbas
Jul 20, 2025
Exclusive: Dr. Marty Makary Reveals How He’s Transforming FDA
Jul 18, 2025
We Refuse to Let Hamas Decide Who Eats, Who Starves in Gaza: GHF Chairman
Jul 16, 2025
Why We Can’t Stop Scrolling, Eating, and Binging: Dr. Anna Lembke
Jul 13, 2025
The CCP’s Long Arm Targeting a Religious Group in America: Justin Butterfield and Lea Patterson
Jul 11, 2025
Devastating Effects of Divorce on Kids: Adam Coleman
Jul 09, 2025
Behind the Curtain of the New CDC Panel on Vaccines: Dr. Robert Malone and Retsef Levi
Jul 06, 2025
Former Trump Lawyer John Eastman Opens Up About Why He’s Not Backing Down in Fight Against Indictments, Disbarment
Jul 04, 2025
Has the Iranian Threat Been Neutralized? | Michael Doran
Jul 02, 2025
Eric Trump: How America Can Outcompete China in Manufacturing
Jun 28, 2025
Kyle Bass: China’s Economic Spiral and the Coming Taiwan War
Jun 27, 2025
The Truth About White Farmers Being Killed in South Africa: Rob Hersov
Jun 25, 2025
New Florida Law Bans the Engineering of Weather: Sayer Ji Explains
Jun 22, 2025
EJ Antoni Decodes the Trump Economy and the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Controversy
Jun 20, 2025
What America Can Learn From Ohio’s Amish Country: John Miller
Jun 18, 2025
Alan Dershowitz on Unrest in LA, Trump-Harvard Clash, and New Book ‘The Preventive State’
Jun 15, 2025
From Agroterrorism to Bioweapons Research: How the CCP Infiltrates the West | Sam Cooper
Jun 13, 2025
The Rise in Cardiovascular Conditions, Myocarditis in Children: Dr. Kirk Milhoan
Jun 11, 2025
Here’s How Trump Is Changing the Game in the Middle East: Josh Hammer
Jun 08, 2025
The Wisdom of Athens and Jerusalem and Lessons for Today: Jacob Howland
Jun 06, 2025
Max Tegmark on AI Superintelligence: We’re Creating an ‘Alien Species’ That Would Replace Us
Jun 04, 2025
Michael Shellenberger: How China Gained Control of Solar—And Why It Matters
Jun 01, 2025
How Numbers Can Lie in Scientific Research: Dr. Lynn Fynn
May 30, 2025
Jonah Platt: The Incredible Story of Muslims and Jews Visiting Auschwitz Together
May 28, 2025
Beyond Lt. Dan: Gary Sinise Reflects on Grief, Gratitude, and a Life Devoted to Honoring America’s Heroes
May 25, 2025
The Monument That Almost Wasn’t: The Remarkable Story Behind Canada’s Anti-Communist Memorial | Ludwik Klimkowski
May 23, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump Is Upending the Status Quo, From Beijing to Gaza to Kyiv
May 21, 2025
‘Criminal State’: Unmasking the CCP’s Whole-of-Society Espionage Playbook | Nicholas Eftimiades
May 18, 2025
How One Journalist Is Shattering Echo Chambers: Isaac Saul
May 16, 2025
What the Mental Health Industry Doesn’t Tell You: Laura Delano
May 14, 2025
How Did Trump Impact the Canadian Election? | Brian Lee Crowley
May 11, 2025
How Intermittent Fasting and Dietary Changes Can Reduce Cancer Risk: Dr. Paul Marik
May 09, 2025
Harmeet Dhillon: Inside Trump Admin’s Shake-Up of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
May 07, 2025
Steve Bannon: Trump Is Waging ‘Economic Warfare’ on the Chinese Communist Party
May 04, 2025
The Dangers of DeepSeek and Chinese Drones: Army Captain Florent Groberg (Ret.)
May 02, 2025
The First Legislation in America Banning Medical Mandates: Leslie Manookian
Apr 30, 2025
Leaked Directive Reveals the CCP’s Desperate Strategy to Survive the Trade War: Heng He
Apr 27, 2025
How America Betrayed Its Children During the Pandemic: David Zweig
Apr 25, 2025
How Therapists Are Failing Our Children: Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
Apr 23, 2025
Mikki Willis: How Our Modern Age Is Severing the Human Connection to the Divine
Apr 20, 2025
How Bad Scientific Research Gets Through Peer Review: Dr. Joseph Varon
Apr 18, 2025
Gordon Chang on Trump’s Tariffs: Is China in Trouble?
Apr 17, 2025
The Cost of a Nuclear Iran and How Decades of American Diplomacy Backfired: Yoram Ettinger
Apr 16, 2025
Inside RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Reset of HHS: David Mansdoerfer
Apr 13, 2025
Inside China’s Stranglehold on the Global Medicine Supply Chain: Rosemary Gibson
Apr 11, 2025
How Trump’s 125 Percent Tariffs Are Dismantling China’s Unfair Trade Regime: Christopher Balding
Apr 10, 2025
No Chemicals, No Vaccines, No Subsidies: Inside Joel Salatin’s Farming Revolution
Apr 09, 2025
How I Almost Ended Up in Jail for Exposing a Secret Gender Transition Program: Eithan Haim
Apr 06, 2025
The Biggest Financial Scandal in History—And You May Be Part of It: Roger Robinson
Apr 04, 2025
Whistleblower Reveals Shocking UN Corruption: Emma Reilly
Apr 02, 2025
How to End the War in Gaza: Netanyahu Adviser Caroline Glick
Mar 30, 2025
Hoping DOGE’s Scalpel ‘Doesn’t Hit an Artery’: Cleo Paskal Warns About Dangers of Potential Cuts in the Pacific
Mar 28, 2025
Antidepressants Are Having Horrific Effects on Sexual Function: Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring
Mar 26, 2025
How the CCP Infiltrated America’s Critical Infrastructure: Michael Lucci
Mar 23, 2025
I Saw a Culture of Conformity in Universities. So I Started My Own: Pano Kanelos
Mar 21, 2025
Rep. Rich McCormick Calls for Tougher Measures to Combat CCP Hacking and Espionage
Mar 19, 2025
Peter St Onge: Will Trump and DOGE Succeed in Gutting the Regulatory State?
Mar 16, 2025
Alina Habba Reveals New Executive Orders Are Coming to Counter Human Trafficking
Mar 14, 2025
Inside Communist China’s War on Religion: Marco Respinti
Mar 12, 2025
Mike Rowe: Why Are 7.2 Million Able-Bodied Men Not Looking for Work?
Mar 09, 2025
Trump’s Transactional Diplomacy: Is It Really a Bad Thing? | Col. Grant Newsham
Mar 07, 2025
Why Paraguay Can Lead the Way in Latin America: Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano
Mar 05, 2025
I Was Injured in the COVID Vaccine Trials and Still Struggle Every Day: Brianne Dressen
Mar 02, 2025
Gov. Jeff Landry: DOGE-Like Reforms Coming to Louisiana
Feb 28, 2025
China’s ‘Three Warfares’ Strategy and Panda Diplomacy Explained: Piero Tozzi
Feb 26, 2025
New Official Pandemic Report Recommends Against Use of COVID Vaccines: Dr. Gary Davidson
Feb 23, 2025
How Trump Wields Tariffs as Negotiating Tactic and Instrument of Statecraft: Andrew Hale
Feb 21, 2025
Where Governments Won’t Go: Charmaine Hedding’s Daring Rescues of the Persecuted, From Syria to Tanzania
Feb 19, 2025
America’s $36 Trillion Debt, Musk’s DOGE Cuts, and Tracking Real-Time Inflation: Stefan Rust
Feb 16, 2025
How Multiculturalism and Post-Nationalism Failed the West: John O’Sullivan
Feb 14, 2025
The DeepSeek Psyop Explained: Nicolas Chaillan
Feb 12, 2025
What Caused the Devastating California Fires and What Could Have Prevented Them? Edward Ring Explains
Feb 09, 2025
‘They’re at War for the American Mind’: Rep. Abe Hamadeh Wants to Ban China Daily From Congress
Feb 07, 2025
How America’s State-Funded Media Can Be a Powerful Tool Against Adversaries: Michael Pack
Feb 05, 2025
Is Your Diet Making You Sick? | Dr. Berg
Feb 02, 2025
Grooming Gangs in Britain Were Deliberately Ignored for 2 Decades: MP Suella Braverman
Jan 31, 2025
The Mental Health Industry Is Incentivized to Keep Patients Medicated: Cooper Davis
Jan 29, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: President Santiago Peña on What Trump’s Return Means for Paraguay and Latin America
Jan 26, 2025
Has Trump Been Proven Right About the Panama Canal? Joseph Humire Says, Yes.
Jan 24, 2025
America Has Disease Care, Not Health Care: Dr. Jingduan Yang
Jan 22, 2025
Why Europe Is Putting the Brakes on Gender Interventions: Leor Sapir
Jan 19, 2025
Bribery, Lawfare, and Media Smears: The CCP’s Campaign to Destroy a Religious Group in America—Erping Zhang
Jan 17, 2025
Why Trump May Be the First Post-Racial President: Bob Woodson and Joshua Mitchell
Jan 15, 2025
Americans Are Not Eating ‘Real Food’—Here’s What You Need to Know: Vani Hari
Jan 13, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs on China: Will They Work? Nazak Nikakhtar Explains
Jan 10, 2025
Here’s Why Americans Are Becoming Sicker: Calley Means
Jan 09, 2025
How the Family Court System Is Fueling a Fatherless Society: Mark Ludwig
Jan 06, 2025
Why the World Has Less Trust in the Dollar, and How Trump Can Change That: Carol Roth
Jan 03, 2025
How DEI and Gender Ideology in Medicine Is Harming Patients: Dr. Stanley Goldfarb
Jan 01, 2025
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn: Putting ‘Country Before Self’ Is Necessary to Repair America
Dec 30, 2024
Mattias Desmet and Aaron Kheriaty: Understanding the Age of Loneliness
Dec 28, 2024
The Future of TikTok and the Collapsing Chinese Economy: Kyle Bass
Dec 27, 2024
Kari Lake Reveals Plans for Voice of America
Dec 24, 2024
Sen. Johnson: Why Trump Needs a ‘Secretary of Information Extraction’ to Restore Transparency
Dec 24, 2024
Sebastian Gorka: How the Trump Admin Will Tackle Terrorism and National Security Threats
Dec 20, 2024
45 Hongkongers, 250 Years: The Grim Realities of Hong Kong’s Political Trials–Mark Clifford
Dec 18, 2024
How to Protect Civil Rights in Schools Without a Department of Education: Fmr. Assistant Sec. Kenneth L. Marcus
Dec 17, 2024
‘Universities Have Lost Their Way’: Ralston College President Stephen Blackwood
Dec 15, 2024
Whistleblowers Reveal the Reality of Child Trafficking in America and What Trump Could Do About It
Dec 13, 2024
Dr. Drew: From the Opioid Crisis to COVID, the Physician–Patient Relationship Is Increasingly Impaired
Dec 10, 2024
How China Controls Our Vital Medicines and the Health Care Supply Chain: Victor Suarez
Dec 07, 2024
I’m Suing Harvard for Violating the Civil Rights of Jewish Students: Shabbos Kestenbaum
Dec 05, 2024
Why We Teach Our First Graders Shakespeare: Michael Fitzgerald
Dec 03, 2024
Recess Appointments: Trump’s Way to Bypass Senate Impasse?—Jeff Clark
Nov 26, 2024
Amb. David Friedman: How to Thwart Iran and Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Nov 26, 2024
What Should Trump Do About the Border on Day 1?—Todd Bensman
Nov 20, 2024
Why Is North Korea Sending Soldiers Into Ukraine?–Greg Scarlatoiu
Nov 20, 2024
Restoring Free Speech in Academia: Jay Bhattacharya
Nov 19, 2024
An Economic Storm May Be Coming—Here’s What Trump Can Do About It: Jeffrey Tucker
Nov 19, 2024
Death on Demand? Wesley J. Smith Explains the Assisted Suicide Movement
Nov 13, 2024
Exposing an Illegal Chinese Immigration Hub Run by a CCP Police Officer: Philip Lenczycki
Nov 12, 2024
What Is Psywar? Dr. Robert Malone Explains
Nov 08, 2024
China Uncensored: Exposing the CCP’s Narrative Warfare and Global Influence—Chris Chappell and Shelley Zhang
Nov 05, 2024
Will the World Lock Down Again in the Next Pandemic? Dr. Kevin Bardosh
Nov 01, 2024
N.S. Lyons: The Growing Impulse Towards Societal Engineering
Oct 30, 2024
Why We Need Legislation to Reduce the Risk of Lab-Generated Pathogens: Dr. Bryce Nickels
Oct 26, 2024
Our Boys Are Falling Behind. Why? Asks Warren Farrell
Oct 25, 2024
Key Vulnerabilities in US Elections: Hans von Spakovsky
Oct 23, 2024
Mikhaila Fuller: Classical Education Is Disappearing. It’s Time to Change That
Oct 19, 2024
How Regenerative Farming Can Help Solve America’s Metabolic Disease Problem: Mollie Engelhart
Oct 17, 2024
Beating Heart Disease: Dr. Aseem Malhotra on What Doctors Don’t Tell You
Oct 12, 2024
The New Sino-Iranian Alliance Taking Over Latin America: Joseph Humire
Oct 11, 2024
Welcome to ‘Post-Journalism’: How Polarization Became the Business Model–Martin Gurri
Oct 09, 2024
China’s Hegemonic Ambitions, From Taiwan to the Moon: Richard Fisher
Oct 07, 2024
Florida Surgeon General Ladapo: Why I’m Not Recommending the New Boosters
Oct 04, 2024
Gordon Chang on Chinese Agents, Clashes With Philippines, and ‘Momentum Towards War’
Sep 30, 2024
Sharyl Attkisson: My Investigations of Medical Cover-Ups and Pharma Scandals
Sep 30, 2024
How Marxism Exploits Crises and Division: Mike Gonzalez and Katie Gorka
Sep 26, 2024
The Real Battleground With China Is Ideological—And America Needs to Counterattack, Says John Lenczowski
Sep 23, 2024
Reclaiming the Middle Ground: Jill Long Thompson’s Vision for a More Collaborative Congress
Sep 20, 2024
Dr. Marty Makary: When Medical Consensus Fails—From Low-Fat Diets to Peanut Bans to Overuse of Antibiotics
Sep 19, 2024
From Deep Fakes to Impersonation Networks, Inside China’s Aggressive Campaigns to Manipulate You: Sarah Cook
Sep 15, 2024
Why Government Statistics Are Not Matching Up With Economic Realities: EJ Antoni
Sep 14, 2024
What the First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Reveals: David Matas
Sep 09, 2024
Inside the Fentanyl Supply Chain: Michael Brown
Sep 06, 2024
How a Tiny Country Launched a Tech Revolution: George Gilder
Sep 02, 2024
Is Social Security Reaching a Dead End?–Star Parker
Aug 30, 2024
Venezuela’s Flawed Elections and Latin America’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Eric Patterson
Aug 27, 2024
China’s Step-by-Step Takeover of the South China Sea: Grant Newsham
Aug 21, 2024
America’s Debt Is Growing Faster Than Its Economy. Is This Sustainable?—W. Bruce Lee
Aug 21, 2024
What the Media Is Leaving Out of Its Reporting on Crime: John Lott
Aug 17, 2024
Here’s What a Chinese EMP Attack on Taiwan Could Look Like: Greg Autry
Aug 15, 2024
Elon Musk Has Been Sounding the Alarm on Birthrates. Is He Onto Something?–Catherine Pakaluk
Aug 15, 2024
Recession Frenzy Is Missing the Point: Jeffrey Tucker on Skewed Data and the Root Causes of Our Economic Woes
Aug 12, 2024
Deep Dive Into Venezuela’s Disputed Election and the Power Players Behind the Scenes: Joseph Humire
Aug 10, 2024
Karl Marx and the Mythology Surrounding His Rise: Phillip Magness
Aug 08, 2024
How Free Societies Fall for Totalitarian Temptations: Ryszard Legutko
Aug 05, 2024
The Libertarian View: Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver on China, the Border, and the Economy
Jul 31, 2024
How Impoverished Nations Become Prosperous: Dr. Rainer Zitelmann
Jul 29, 2024
Honoring Those on the Front Lines: Singer Five for Fighting on Writing Music With Morals
Jul 26, 2024
Inside China’s Largest Civil Disobedience Movement, and Why You Haven’t Heard of It: Larry Liu
Jul 25, 2024
Slavery Still Exists Today–And Here Is Living Proof: Simon Deng and Charles Jacobs
Jul 22, 2024
How Communist China Outsmarted Hollywood, the NBA, and US Businesses: Chris Fenton
Jul 19, 2024
We Are Treating Each Other as ‘Political Abstractions,’ Chloe Valdary Has a Way to Fix That
Jul 16, 2024
Why Many Scientific Findings Don’t Hold Up Under Scrutiny: Emily Kaplan
Jul 12, 2024
How Landmark SCOTUS Ruling on Chevron Deference Curbs Federal Agency Power: Philip Hamburger
Jul 09, 2024
Communist China’s ‘Backdoor’ Into America: Cleo Paskal
Jul 05, 2024
Hard Truths of the Foster Care Crisis: Neal Harmon and Demetrius Grosse on New Film ‘Sound of Hope’
Jul 01, 2024
Mark Skousen: America Has Been in a State of Permanent Inflation Since WWII
Jun 27, 2024
Here’s How America Can Win the New Cold War: Matthew Kreonig and Dan Negrea
Jun 25, 2024
Dr. Ben Carson: There Is a War on the American Family
Jun 25, 2024
Is Hungary a ‘Democratic Backslider?’ Shea Bradley-Farrell Explains
Jun 20, 2024
The CCP’s 7 Pressure Points and How the US Can Leverage Them: Michael Sobolik
Jun 17, 2024
How to Recover From the ‘Crisis of Meaning’ in the West: John Vervaeke
Jun 17, 2024
We Are Waging War Against Our Own Nature: Mary Harrington
Jun 14, 2024
Sen. Roger Marshall: US Must Stop Funding Dangerous Research with Communist China
Jun 09, 2024
Daryl Davis: Why I Befriend Neo-Nazis and the KKK
Jun 05, 2024
How Modern Medicine Abandoned Healing: Mihai Nadin
Jun 04, 2024
Scientists Opened Pandora’s Box, What Now? | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
May 31, 2024
The Secret Ratings Agencies That Control Media Advertising: Freddie Sayers
May 31, 2024
Behind America’s Mental Health Disaster: Carrie Sheffield
May 27, 2024
From Rock Star to Dissident: Winston Marshall
May 24, 2024
Infertility After Vaccination? Dr. Kimberly Biss Explains the Data
May 23, 2024
Leaked Files Reveal Trans Medicine Harms to Children: Mia Hughes
May 20, 2024
Premier Danielle Smith on CCP Subversion: We Shouldn’t Be ‘Playing Into Our Own Demise’
May 15, 2024
James Lindsay and Logan Lancing Expose the Truth Behind Queer Theory
May 13, 2024
The Giant UN Agency Hijacked by Hamas: Asaf Romirowsky
May 09, 2024
RFK Jr. Takes on Trump and Biden Over Four ‘Existential’ Issues
May 06, 2024
How Western Europe is Copying Communist China’s Policies: MEP Cristian Terhes
May 04, 2024
How the Green Tech Industry Is Empowering Communist China: Steve Milloy
May 02, 2024