Tag: American Thought Leaders

Maajid Nawaz: The Levers of Ideological Warfare—From Islamist Extremism to Covidian Dogma | PART 1

“I was anti-democracy. I was an Islamist revolutionary that wanted to establish a caliphate. And I was imprisoned in Egypt and sentenced to five years … because I was attempting to overthrow the Egyptian government.” A former Islamist revolutionary, Maajid Nawaz would later become a leading anti-extremism activist, founding the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam. In…


Vivek Ramaswamy: How to Dismantle the Woke-Industrial Complex

“We want the people who run the government to be the people who we actually elect to run the government—not the managerial elites who ultimately pull the strings from behind the scenes,” says entrepreneur and commentator Vivek Ramaswamy. Appointed leaders and bureaucrats—from the executives of Google and Blackrock and Facebook to the heads of “alphabet…


Vivek Ramaswamy: How to Dismantle the Woke-Industrial Complex | CPAC 2022

“We want the people who run the government to be the people who we actually elect to run the government—not the managerial elites who ultimately pull the strings from behind the scenes,” says entrepreneur and commentator Vivek Ramaswamy. Appointed leaders and bureaucrats—from the executives of Google and Blackrock and Facebook to the heads of “alphabet…


PART 2: Wokal Distance: How Woke Ideologues Rig the Rules of Debate

In our previous episode with Wokal Distance, released on February 10th, Wokal Distance explained the underpinnings of woke ideology, including its assertions that there is no absolute truth, and that all claims to truth are warped by power. Now in part two, he breaks down the concept of intersectionality and how woke ideologues rig the…


Grant Newsham: Beijing ‘Taking Notes’ on Russia-Ukraine War As It Plans Taiwan Takeover | CPAC 2022

“If it turns out that Putin is able to take all of Ukraine or even a huge chunk of it and get away with it, the Chinese will take note,” says Grant Newsham, a retired U.S. Marine Colonel and Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy. “The Chinese are going to be emboldened to…


Resistance and Suffering—Preparing Ourselves to Stand for Truth in a Time of Lies

“The key to resilience in the face of persecution is the willingness to suffer,” says Rod Dreher, “not just to bear it stoically, but to find a way to transform it and purify it into something good.” In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek speaks about soft totalitarianism, “wokeness,” and ways to…


KT McFarland: Putin Aims to ‘Rebuild Greater Mother Russia’; Ronald Reagan’s Playbook to Counter Russian Aggression | CPAC 2022

“[Putin’s] goal is to break the back of NATO and to separate Europe from the United States, and in his mind, rebuild greater Mother Russia.” At the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we sat down with former Trump deputy national security adviser KT McFarland, author of “Revolution: Trump, Washington, and ‘We the People.’” We…


Larry Kudlow: How the US Could Gut Russia’s War Chest | CPAC 2022

“When oil prices are low, you don’t hear from Putin. When oil prices are high, that’s how they make their money. That’s all they have. … We’re at $100 a barrel and rising, so Putin has got the money to go into Ukraine.” At the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we sat down with…


Richard Grenell: How American Weakness Emboldened Putin to Invade Ukraine

“This is a disaster … We didn’t have to have this situation unfold,” says former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. The Russian military has reached Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, with fighting and heavy bombing in the city, and Vladimir Putin has urged the Ukrainian army to overthrow their government. At the 2022…


LIVE: CPAC 2022 Day 2 With Marco Rubio, Jim Banks, Mike Pompeo, Ben Carson, Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek, and More

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest gathering of American conservatives of the year, is taking place in Orlando Feb. 24–27, featuring Republican Party heavyweights, including former President Donald Trump. Agenda for Friday, Feb. 25 8:45 a.m. Mercedes Schlapp Welcomes Harrison Rogers with Tito Ortiz and Frank Mir Mercedes Schlapp, Harrison Rogers, Tito Ortiz,…