Tag: American Thought Leaders

Michael Shellenberger: The Root Cause of America’s Homelessness Epidemic and Why the Term ‘Homeless’ Is Misleading

“We’re literally paying people in the form of cash welfare, housing, and other services to live in tents on the street, use hard drugs, defecate publicly, and commit crimes,” says Michael Shellenberger, author of “San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities.” In this episode, he breaks down the root causes behind the sprawling homeless encampments found…


Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff: Hospitals Should Hire Nurses with Natural Immunity, Not Fire Them

“Since the Athenian plague in 430 B.C. … we have known about natural immunity. So it’s strange that suddenly people are questioning that,” says Dr. Martin Kulldorff. Nurses and caregivers who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection have “stronger, longer-lasting immunity” than vaccinated individuals who have not been infected before, Dr. Kulldorff says, making these…


Christopher Balding: Inside China’s Evergrande Crisis, the Buildup Against Taiwan, and the Inner Workings of China’s Financial System

“The risk is not Evergrande itself … This is metastasizing into other areas.” We sit down with China expert Dr. Christopher Balding, a former professor at Peking University’s HSBC Business School and the Fulbright University Vietnam. We discuss the Evergrande debt crisis, the hidden inner workings of the Chinese economic and financial system, and Beijing’s…


Gabrielle Clark: My Son Is Not an Oppressor Just Because He Looks White

“You can’t just tell people, ‘Well, you’re a racist because you’re a white,’ or ‘You’re a victim because you’re black.’ That is completely and totally asinine.” In this episode, we sit down with Gabrielle Clark, a Nevada mom who is suing her son’s school. She says a sociology class forced her biracial son to identify…


Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Era of Intimidation,’ Tribalism, and Elite Contempt for the Middle Class

“A very dangerous pre-civilizational pathology is tribalism…I hire my first cousin—and not the other person who’s better qualified—because he’s part of the tribe,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. Now, “we’ve gone back in a retrograde fashion to a pre-civilizational mentality,” Hanson says. In this episode, we discuss his latest book, “The Dying Citizen:…


Nicolas Chaillan, Former Pentagon Software Chief, on What the US Must Do to Win China AI Battle Before ‘Point of No Return’

“We’re losing this battle.” The United States is losing the AI race against communist China, says Nicolas Chaillan, who recently resigned from his position as the chief software officer for the U.S. Air Force. U.S. companies still lead in technological advancements, but they are unwilling to share their technology with the Department of Defense. “If…


CCP Poses ‘Insider Threat’ to American Companies: Former Pentagon Official

A former Pentagon official has warned that the Chinese Communist Party is sending people to infiltrate American businesses. In addition, the Department of Defense needs to do a better job of working with the tech industry to prevent China from achieving dominance in the field of artificial intelligence, the former official said. “The fact is, the…


Kalev Leetaru: Update Section 230 to Legally Compel Big Tech Transparency

“How can you have a digital society where you don’t even know what the rules are?” In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kalev Leetaru, a media fellow at the RealClearFoundation and senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. Instead of repealing Section 230, he argues for an…


Virginia Mother Who Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution Sees Parallels in America

The communist political movement that devastated China decades ago is unfolding in America, warned Xi Van Fleet, a parent-turned-activist who made national headlines after speaking out against critical race theory (CRT) at a school board meeting. “When the Cultural Revolution started, I was a first grader,” the Virginia mother told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.” She…


‘I Want to Wake People Up’—Xi Van Fleet, Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

“The result of the Cultural Revolution…is the total destruction of society.” In this episode, we sit down with Xi Van Fleet, a Virginia mom from China who made headlines after she compared the rise of critical race theory to China’s Cultural Revolution at a Loudoun County school board meeting. Just as people in China were designated…