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.
429 episodes transcribedNate Soares is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Wo...
Six years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still uncovering what was really happening behind closed doors.“What [Dr. Anthony Fauci] sa...
In this episode, I sit down with U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche to discuss the Department of Justice’s latest work to combat voting and registrati...
It’s been over five years since a California law came into effect that allows biological males to be sent to women’s prisons if they identify as trans...
Modern biology often presents Darwinian evolution as a settled explanation for the origin and diversity of life.Douglas Axe is chair of molecular biol...
Modern culture often treats popular consensus and media narratives as settled truth. Warren Smith, author of the new book “A Mind of Your Own: Indepen...
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Tom Homan. A career law enforcement officer, he’s served as a cop, border patrol agent, federal investigator, a...
What happens when AI agents stop acting like isolated tools and begin collaborating to trick the very systems that evaluate them?Daniel Kokotajlo, exe...
Ahead of the Trump–Xi summit in Washington this week, I’m sitting down with retired U.S. Marine Colonel Grant Newsham to understand what’s really at s...
I recently traveled to the Pacific island nation of Palau, home to one of the deadliest battlefields of World War II. And geography still matters: Tod...
Centralized agriculture insists that strict federal oversight is essential for food safety and market stability. Joel Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Fa...
In the remote Pacific, emergency medical transport is not a simple call away. Across hundreds of miles of open ocean separating island communities, su...
During World War II, America learned a hard lesson about the strategic importance of the small island nations scattered across the Pacific.Among them...
Rusty Reno is the editor-in-chief of First Things Magazine and author of “Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West...
Modern medicine in the West often treats chronic and autoimmune conditions as lifelong diagnoses that must be managed rather than cured. Sina McCullou...
Underground and urban warfare have become the decisive battlegrounds of modern warfare, yet for a long time, military doctrine has been built to avoid...
Modern American politics is commonly framed as a face-off between traditional conservative and contemporary progressive values.Bradley Thayer, author...
Many people have come to accept pervasive surveillance as the price of modern life: that our phones, browsers, messages, purchases, and movements will...
Modern biology often posits Darwinian evolution and natural selection as a settled explanation for the vast complexity of the natural world. Yet, look...
It’s rare to see large-scale bronze installations built today. In Washington, D.C., as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebration, Matthew Taylor...
