Tag: American Thought Leaders

COVID-19 Originates from a Chinese Laboratory, Australian Journalist Says

Award-winning Australian investigative reporter Sharri Markson said there are convincing pieces of evidence to show that the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a Chinese lab with ties to the communist regime’s military. Markson’s findings are published in her new book “What Really Happened in Wuhan,” and evidence suggests that Beijing knew about the…


COVID-19 Originates from a Chinese Laboratory, Investigative Reporter Says

Award-winning Australian investigative reporter Sharri Markson said there are convincing pieces of evidence to show that the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a Chinese lab with ties to the communist regime’s military. Markson’s findings are published in her new book “What Really Happened in Wuhan,” and evidence suggests that Beijing knew about the…


Mike Gonzalez: The Marxist Underpinnings of the BLM Organizations

“The concept of black lives matter is unimpeachable… but the concept is very different from the movement, very different from the organizations, very different from the founders.” In this episode, we sit down with Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez to discuss the Marxist ideology underpinning the major Black Lives Matter organizations. Gonzalez is the…


Mike Gonzalez: The Marxist Underpinnings of the BLM Organizations

“The concept of black lives matter is unimpeachable… but the concept is very different from the movement, very different from the organizations, very different from the founders.” In this episode, we sit down with Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez to discuss the Marxist ideology underpinning the major Black Lives Matter organizations. Gonzalez is the…


Curt Jaimungal: The Extreme Left’s Common Thread, from Communist China to America

What ideologically separates the rational left from the extremist left? What ideas lead to violence? And why are censorship and redefining language both central to leftist extremism? In this episode, we sit down with Curt Jaimungal, who explores these questions about political extremism in his documentary, “Better Left Unsaid.” He’s also the host of the…


Sharri Markson: Unmasking the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Origins of COVID-19

In this episode, award-winning journalist Sharri Markson takes us inside her groundbreaking research into the origins of COVID-19 and how events really unfolded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Her findings are detailed in her new book and documentary of the same name “What Really Happened in Wuhan.” Markson is the Investigations Editor at The…


Maud Maron on NYC Schools Pushing Critical Race Theory; the Assault on Merit; and the Emerging ‘Community of the Canceled’

“You can teach kids how to treat each other with respect and dignity without trying to racially essentialize kids.” Today, I sit down with Maud Maron, an elected New York public school council member and public defender who was fired from her job at the Legal Aid Society after speaking out against race essentialism in…


Rabbi Abraham Cooper on Christian, Yazidi Persecution in Middle East; the Recent Rise in Anti-Semitism; and the Abraham Accords One Year On

If the United States decides to remove all remaining troops from Iraq and Syria, it would spell the end of the Yazidis and the Syrian Christians, says Rabbi Abraham Cooper. “They would essentially disappear.” In this episode, we sit down with Rabbi Cooper, the associate dean and director of Global Social Action at the Simon…


Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Vaccine Mandates, Herd Immunity, and Why Zero COVID-19 Is Impossible

“The vaccine does not stop disease spread after a certain number of months,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine and public health at Stanford University. Even if children were all vaccinated, COVID-19 would continue to spread among the population. In this episode, Dr. Bhattacharya explains herd immunity, current data on vaccine safety—especially for…


Wikipedia Co-founder Larry Sanger: Why Wikipedia Has Failed and What to Do About It

“Wikipedia made a real effort at neutrality for, I would say, its first five years or so. And then … it began a long, slow slide into what I would call leftist propaganda,” says Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. What was the original vision for Wikipedia? And why did its neutrality policy collapse? Sanger says he’s…