American Thought Leaders

By The Epoch Times

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 Oct 11, 2025

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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
He Ran the World’s Biggest Payment Processor; Now He’s Taking on Social Security | Frank Bisignano
Mar 28, 2026
How ‘Brain Rot’ and the Escapist Virtual World Is Harming Our Youth | Adnan Alkhalili
Mar 27, 2026
The Many Hidden Fronts of CCP Unrestricted Warfare | Casey Fleming
Mar 21, 2026
The Feminization of Society and the Stigmatization of Normalcy | J.D. Haltigan
Mar 20, 2026
Has Xi Jinping Unified His Own Enemies? | Robert Suettinger
Mar 14, 2026
The Harvard Astrophysicist Searching for Extraterrestrial Life | Avi Loeb
Mar 13, 2026
How the CCP Dehumanizes Christians in China | Pastor Bob Fu
Mar 07, 2026
Why the Iran War Is All About China | Zineb Riboua
Mar 06, 2026
From Iran to Venezuela—How Trump Is Neutralizing Beijing’s Allies | Gordon Chang
Mar 04, 2026
Matched and ‘Killed to Order’: Inside the CCP’s Dark Organ Industry | With Guest Host Rob Schneider
Feb 28, 2026
Treating the Root, Not Just the Symptoms: The Power of Integrative Medicine | Dr. Daniel Monti
Feb 27, 2026
I Talked to 50 California Mayors. What They Told Me Was Surprising | Elaine Culotti
Feb 21, 2026
‘I Want My Dad Back:’ Inside the CCP’s War on Underground Churches | Grace Jin Drexel
Feb 20, 2026
Most Americans Agree: You Can’t Change Your Sex | Jonathan Butcher
Feb 18, 2026
The Arctic Chessboard: Why Greenland and Canada Are Critical to US Security Against the CCP | Alex Gray
Feb 14, 2026
A Century of Misjudgment: How the US Helped the CCP Survive, and Become Its Greatest Adversary | Xi Van Fleet
Feb 13, 2026
Exclusive: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on How the NIH Is Rethinking Autism, DEI, China Ties, and Gain-of-Function
Feb 11, 2026
Inside Beijing’s Darkest State Crime—And Those Fighting to Expose It | Raymond Zhang
Feb 07, 2026
The Forgotten Wisdom of the Declaration of Independence | Matthew Spalding
Feb 06, 2026
CCP Exploiting Birth Tourism in America on an ‘Industrial’ Scale | Peter Schweizer
Feb 04, 2026
How Xi Jinping Broke All the CCP’s Rules | Heng He
Jan 31, 2026
The False Promise of Antidepressants | Dr. Joanna Moncrieff
Jan 30, 2026
In Some States, Parents Risk Losing Custody for Rejecting Child’s Transgender Identity | Erin Friday
Jan 28, 2026
Why Steak Is at the Top of the New Food Pyramid | Dr. Shawn Baker
Jan 24, 2026
A New Approach to Alzheimer’s? | Lou Reese
Jan 23, 2026
The Failures of the Mental Health Drug Revolution | David Cohen
Jan 21, 2026
Dr. Mehmet Oz: Up to $4 Billion in Health Care Fraud in California
Jan 17, 2026
The Evidence of Harm: What the Data Really Show About Pediatric Transgender Procedures | Leor Sapir
Jan 16, 2026
The Untold Story Behind Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ Speech | Producer Mark Joseph
Jan 14, 2026
Devin Nunes on Ending the Politicization of America’s Intelligence Agencies
Jan 10, 2026
Exclusive: Inside SBA’s Crack Down on Loan Fraud Nationwide | Administrator Kelly Loeffler
Jan 09, 2026
Why Maduro’s Capture Is a Major Blow for Beijing | J. Michael Waller
Jan 07, 2026
Link Between Antifa and Homelessness Nonprofits | Jonathan Choe
Jan 03, 2026
Alex Berenson: What Teens Should Know About Cannabis and THC
Jan 02, 2026
Chloe Cole Breaks Down Major HHS Shift on Gender Medicine—and Why It Matters
Dec 31, 2025
The Woke Movement Has Peaked. What’s Next? | Andrew Doyle
Dec 27, 2025
How Overdiagnosis Turns Healthy People Into Patients | Alan Cassels
Dec 24, 2025
Rob Schneider: Here’s What’s Wrong With Our Culture Today
Dec 20, 2025
The Reagan-Era Strategy That Could Reignite America’s Technological Power | Michael Sekora
Dec 19, 2025
What Americans Aren’t Told About Psychiatric Medications | Robert Whitaker
Dec 17, 2025
Former US Army Pacific Chief Reveals What’s Missing in US Taiwan Strategy | Gen. Charles Flynn (Ret.)
Dec 13, 2025
Future of European Security and Russia-Ukraine Peace Efforts: Latvia Foreign Minister Baiba Braze
Dec 12, 2025
Former CDC Director Calls for Removal of mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19 | Dr. Robert Redfield
Dec 10, 2025
Robert Kiyosaki: Why America’s Middle Class Keeps Getting Poorer
Dec 06, 2025
Does the Soul Exist Outside the Brain? Insights from a Neurosurgeon | Dr. Michael Egnor
Dec 05, 2025
From Statins to Paxil, Here’s What’s Wrong With a Lot of Medical Research | Maryanne Demasi
Dec 03, 2025
Exclusive: Kash Patel Talks China Fentanyl, Violent Networks, ‘Burn Bags,’ and More
Nov 29, 2025
Why These 9 Institutions Must Be Reformed Post-COVID | Jeffrey Tucker
Nov 26, 2025
How a Little Known Technology Can Break China’s Rare Earths Stranglehold | Dr. James Tour
Nov 22, 2025
How Your Private Data Is Packaged, Sold, and Deployed to Target You | Joe Weil
Nov 21, 2025
From Gene-Edited Babies to ‘Bodyoids,’ the Brave New World of Modern Medicine | Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
Nov 19, 2025
He Refused Billions From China. Now They’re Trying to Destroy His Company | Declan Ganley
Nov 15, 2025
How School Closures Irrevocably Harmed a Generation | Natalya Murakhver
Nov 14, 2025
How I Discovered a Possible Cure for My Son’s Incurable Disease | Patrick Girondi
Nov 12, 2025
The Myths We’re Told About Climate Change | Michael Shellenberger
Nov 08, 2025
It’s Time to Ban Transplant Tourism to China | Rep. Neal Dunn
Nov 07, 2025
Canning, Compost, and Chickens: How to Stop Relying on Others for Food | Special Episode
Nov 05, 2025
New Evidence Shows SSRI Antidepressants Can Cause Permanent Harm to Sexual Function | Dr. Irwin Goldstein
Nov 01, 2025
David Green and Bill High: How One Family Built a Billion-Dollar Company That Gives Away Half Its Profits
Oct 31, 2025
Here’s How Trump Can Leverage the CCP’s Greatest Vulnerability | Ambassador Sam Brownback
Oct 29, 2025
What Doctors Often Don’t Tell You About Antidepressants | Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring
Oct 29, 2025
Charles Murray: I Thought Religion Was Irrelevant to Me. I Was Wrong.
Oct 25, 2025
CCP Power Plays in Tariff Talks Explained | John Moolenaar, Chairman of the House CCP Committee
Oct 23, 2025
Against the Grain: The NBA Player Who Refused to Kneel or Get the Shot | Jonathan Isaac
Oct 22, 2025
The CCP’s Gloves Are Off in Trade War—What’s Next? | Lee Smith
Oct 18, 2025
Andy Ngo: I Was Nearly Killed by Antifa. This is What I Learned.
Oct 17, 2025
How Wikipedia Turned Into an ‘Engine of Defamation’ | Co-Founder Larry Sanger
Oct 15, 2025
How Tariffs Once Paid America’s Bills–And Why They Could Again | John Gardner
Oct 12, 2025
What to Know About Raw Milk, Seed Oils, and the Food Pyramid | Sally Fallon Morell
Oct 10, 2025
From Vegan Star Chef to Regenerative Rancher | Mollie Engelhart
Oct 09, 2025
Secretary Doug Burgum: Inside Our Strategy to End China’s Stranglehold on Critical Minerals
Oct 08, 2025
Dr. Joseph Ladapo Breaks Down Decision to Remove All Vaccines Mandates in Florida
Oct 04, 2025
How the CCP Monetizes the Bodies of Its Prisoners | Matthew Robertson
Oct 03, 2025
Why Small Farmers Are Disappearing | Joel Salatin
Oct 02, 2025
From Cultural Revolution to Cultural Revival: Spencer Klavan on ‘How to Save the West’
Oct 01, 2025
Eric Trump Opens Up About How Relentless Attacks Impacted Him and His Family
Sep 27, 2025
Dr. Ryan Cole: NIH Should Fund Research into Rise in Cancer
Sep 26, 2025
How Race-Based Policies Are Harming South Africa: Ernst Roets
Sep 24, 2025
Why Charlie Kirk’s Approach Matters Now More Than Ever | Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer
Sep 20, 2025
The Battle Over Alligator Alcatraz, the US Census, and CCP Surveillance | Florida AG James Uthmeier
Sep 19, 2025
Xi and Putin’s Hot Mic Moment on Immortality and Why It Matters | Joshua Philipp
Sep 17, 2025
‘We’re at an Inflection Point’: What’s Next for America? | Robert George
Sep 13, 2025
Smartphones Are Rewiring Our Brains—Here’s How Parents Can Say No | Clare Morell
Sep 12, 2025
How Gut Bacteria Shape Your Brain, Immunity, and Mental Wellness | Dr. Sabine Hazan
Sep 10, 2025
Jeffrey Tucker: Everything You Need to Know About the Fed
Sep 06, 2025
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