“They claim to be attacking white supremacy, but really, they’re attacking meritocracy,” says Kenny Xu, author of “An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy.” Asian Americans are penalized for working hard and held to much higher standards than their non-Asian peers in the admission processes for America’s elite…
Kenny Xu on ‘An Inconvenient Minority’ and How the Push for Equity Is Dumbing Down America
How to Challenge Big Tech Censorship–Rep. Buck, Rep. Steube, Mercedes Schlapp, and Harrison Rogers
From Trump’s recent class-action lawsuits to antitrust legislation, what are the different legal avenues currently in play to challenge Big Tech? And what can the average person do to deal with big tech censorship? At the CPAC conference in Texas, American Thought Leaders sat down with ACU Foundation Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp, Rep. Ken Buck…
Kash’s Corner: A Blueprint for Durham and Accountability for the Crossfire Hurricane Scandal
In the investigation into the Crossfire Hurricane scandal, what powers does Special Counsel John Durham have that the Inspector General did not? What might come out of Durham’s investigation—which is still ongoing? If Kash Patel were Special Counsel, what would he do? And what declassified materials have still not been released? Subscribe to the American…
Rep. Brian Babin: The ‘Shell Game’ on the Border and the End of Title 42
“Processing and facilitating the release of illegal immigrants into the United States—that’s what they consider to be progress,” says Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) in reference to the Biden administration. He describes a “shell game” on the border in which crowds of immigrants are shuffled from one facility to another without solving the root problems. We…
Gordon Chang on Chinese Drug Warfare, Military Buildup on the China–India Border, and the Crackdown on Didi
The Chinese regime “is intentionally killing tens of thousands of Americans each year with fentanyl,” says China analyst Gordon Chang. In this episode, we discuss the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy of drug warfare, the military buildup on the India–China border, the likelihood of an invasion of Taiwan, and what the Chinese regime’s crackdown on Didi…
Kyle Bass: The ‘Cancer’ of China’s New Digital Currency
“Imagine a currency that almost has a mind of its own … It knows your account data, knows your birthday, your social security number, where you live” and exactly what you like to buy. And all of this knowledge would be sitting in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. In this episode, Kyle Bass,…
Heather Mac Donald on the Black Lives Matter Paradox and the ‘Poison’ of Identity Politics
“The only black lives that matter to the press is [the] handful that are taken by a cop,” says Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald, author of “The War on Cops” and “The Diversity Delusion.” In this episode, we discuss the rise in crime, the demoralization of police across the nation, and the “poison” of…
Dr. Robert Malone, mRNA Vaccine Inventor, on the Bioethics of Experimental Vaccines and the ‘Ultimate Gaslighting’
“What would happen to the entire vaccine enterprise—I’m talking about pediatric vaccines, the fundamental bedrocks of public health—if we basically validate the criticisms of those that have been labeled anti-vaxxers?” In this episode, we sit down with mRNA vaccine pioneer Dr. Robert Malone to discuss questions surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines and repurposed drugs, as well…
Dr. Bret Weinstein: ‘Perverse Incentives’ in the Vaccine Rollout and the Censorship of Science
“We are exposing a huge fraction of the population to what is in effect a scientific experiment, except that it isn’t a scientific experiment because we are deliberately avoiding collecting data that would allow us to evaluate the impact,” says Dr. Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist and co-host of the DarkHorse podcast. In this deep-dive…
‘You Can’t Kill the Idea of Freedom’—Mark Simon, Former Apple Daily Exec, on Its Forced Closure
Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s largest independent paper, was recently forced to shut down. What will this mean for the future of Hong Kong? And why is killing press freedom in Hong Kong actually a bad move for the CCP? Today, we sit down with Mark Simon, righthand man to Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, and…
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