Tag: American Thought Leaders

PART 2: Robert Destro: Is the West Starting to Adopt China’s Orwellian Social Credit System and Internet Firewall?

“If you allow people to say, ‘Oh, declaring an emergency means that rights don’t apply,’ then there’s going to be lots of emergencies.” With the spread of Big Tech censorship and lockdowns of the unvaccinated, are elements of China’s internet firewall and Orwellian social credit system now spreading to the West? In part two of…


China’s Communist Leaders Are ‘Traffickers’ Selling Human Organs—Robert Destro on ‘Genocides’ of Uyghurs, Falun Gong | PART 1

“The people you’re dealing with in China are human traffickers. … They’re committing genocide against their own people.” In this two-part episode, I sit down with Robert Destro, former assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. He is also a law professor at The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law….


Donald Boudreaux: The Deafening Silence of Economists During COVID-19 and the Abandonment of Logic

“People talk about long COVID. … I worry about long lockdown.” At the Brownstone Institute’s inaugural conference, I sat down with Donald Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University and a senior fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. In the age of COVID-19, most economists failed to do their jobs, he…


Soledad Ursua: Drug Addiction, Crime, and Mental Illness—The Tragedy Unfolding on America’s Streets

“Experts keep saying … it’s a housing crisis. But we see it every day with our own eyes. When you see somebody who is passed out in their vomit or someone who is covered in feces and urine—and there are needles and there’s filth on the streets—that’s not poverty. That’s mental illness. And that’s drug…


Josh Hammer: Building a Coalition to Combat Marxist Ideology and the Communist China Threat

At the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida, we sat down with Josh Hammer, the opinion editor of Newsweek and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, to discuss the values of national conservatism, how America has strayed from its original founding vision, and the two greatest threats that America faces today. Subscribe to…


Dr. Harvey Risch: Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Other Therapeutics Highly Effective in Early COVID Treatment

“These drugs have been suppressed… for reasons that have nothing to do with the science and the medicine.” In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. He says therapeutics, including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, can be highly effective…


John Fund: US Far Behind Mexico, Canada, and Europe in Election Safeguards

“Almost all [European nations], with one or two exceptions, require voter ID at the polls. … Mexico, which is our southern neighbor, has a very extensive biometric ID card and a very extensive voter registration system that’s constantly updated.” How prevalent is election fraud in the United States? And what explains the aversion in America…


Vivek Ramaswamy and Dave Rubin: Tackling the ‘Woke Industrial Complex’ and Building an Ideologically Diverse Tech Ecosystem

“When I look across America and see people who hungered and rallied behind the cry to make America great again, I don’t think they just hungered for a single man. … Part of what we hungered for is the unapologetic pursuit of excellence itself, because that is part of what it means to be American,”…


PART 2: Dr. Paul Alexander on the Politicization of Science and Why Healthy Children Shouldn’t Get COVID Vaccine

“If you say these vaccines are safe for my children…remove the liability protection.” Previously, in part one of our exclusive interview with Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Paul Alexander, an expert in evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology, we discussed booster shots, the data on natural immunity, and the failures of lockdown policies. Now in part two, he…


PART 2: Dr. Paul Alexander on the Politicization of Science and Why Healthy Children Shouldn’t Get the COVID Vaccine

“If you say these vaccines are safe for my children … remove the liability protection.” Previously, in part one of our exclusive interview with Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Paul Alexander, an expert in evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology, we discussed booster shots, the data on natural immunity, and the failures of lockdown policies. Now in part two, he…