American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"All educational gains since 2000 around the world were wiped out with the school closures... ...Public health has always had this tension between the authoritarian positions, and then the more classical liberal, civil society, philosophy… …We're interested in using the COVID years and the lessons to reform the way that public health thinks about itself and the way that it acts in the world. So, we have a big job ahead of us." Kevin Bardosh, Medical Anthropologist and Director of Collateral Global 🔴 PREMIERE 10/31, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1031KevinBardosh

"Effectively, the overwhelming majority of people in the UK who are adults, and in the US, are far from being healthy. And the primary driver…is poor diet. Now, what does a poor diet mean? It means eating predominantly ultra-processed foods. So, 57% of the calorie consumption in the UK comes from ultra-processed foods...Certainly above 60% of the calories in the US diet come from ultra-processed foods. So, what does that mean? It's what's being done to food that changes it significantly from its original form." - Dr. Aseem Malhotra 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1012AseemMalhotra

"Politics is not about debate anymore. It's about being correct and imposing the correct way on everyone else. …Science becomes no longer a scientific process of determining truth. It becomes: how are we going to administer the correct scientific truth through our institutions?" - N.S. Lyons, author of "The China Convergence" essay 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1029NSLyons

"Isaiah Berlin, talking about Russia, said that the most important knack any citizen can have in a communist system was the ability to follow the party line wherever it was moving." "The party line functions…as a measure of loyalty to the system." - N.S. Lyons, author of “The China Convergence” essay 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1029NSLyons

"The latest polling I've seen on this shows that 81% of Americans think [requiring voter ID] is a common sense requirement…It doesn't matter whether they're Democrats or Republicans or Independents, it doesn't matter whether they're black or white or Asian or Hispanic, they all think this is a good idea." - Hans von Spakovsky, former FEC member and senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1022HansvonSpakovsky

"Even if there was a .1% chance that [COVID] came from a lab, the fact that it killed millions of people & caused trillions of dollars of economic damage should provide some pause, that we should do what we can to prevent that from happening again. …We all have the potential to do really bad things if we're put into situations where the incentives are to do bad things. This is a committee that removes the incentives to make bad decisions." - Bryce Nickels 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1026BryceNickels

"What we're talking about is bio risk management. It's the evaluation of 'should the project be performed,' not 'can the project be done safely,' which is another thing that the virology community likes to conflate. …They believe that what they're doing is so important that it's okay to lie. ...We want to make there be incentives to tell the truth, not to hide the truth." - Bryce Nickels 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1026BryceNickels

"2025: I believe that Bolivia will probably be the number one humanitarian crisis in Latin America, because the numbers don't add up. It's the same story as Venezuela, in terms of the same kind of external support [and] the same kind of socialist movement, with one difference. They didn't nationalize their industries the way that Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela, which has led to the economic calamity that they became. In the case of Bolivia, they were able to somewhat have stable macroeconomic indicators, but they were camouflaged with the large amount of public spending. So, people didn't realize that Evo Morales was spending pretty much the future of Bolivia by depleting his foreign reserves. And so now...they come back with this new socialist president named Luis Arce, who's actually the former economic minister, and they don't have [anywhere] near the foreign reserves.” - Joseph Humire 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1010JosephHumire

"Postponed gratification is the single biggest predictor of success or failure in life." Boys who grow up without fathers often are not learning postponed gratification, with detrimental effects for themselves and society, says Warren Farrell, co-author of "The Boy Crisis.” "Postponed gratification comes from a parent who's good—not at boundary setting—but at boundary enforcement," says Warren Farrell. It’s a skill that typically comes more naturally to dads than moms. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1024WarrenFarrell

It's been 6 years since Warren Farrell and John Gray published their groundbreaking book “The Boy Crisis" detailing how boys have been falling behind in many key metrics. Boys drop out, commit suicide, and end up in jail at much higher rates than girls. In this episode, we get an update from Warren Farrell on how things have progressed, especially in our post-pandemic world. What is much of society failing to understand when it comes to our boys and men? 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1024WarrenFarrell

"About half the states allow 3rd party strangers to come to your house and offer to pick up & deliver your absentee ballot. That's a mistake…If you look at the election fraud database that we maintain at @Heritage, you will find there are a lot of absentee ballot fraud cases." In this episode, Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow and former FEC member Hans von Spakovsky breaks down the key vulnerabilities he sees in U.S. elections. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1022HansvonSpakovsky

"The biggest problem across the country is that we have an honor system for registering. So states are not doing anything to verify that you actually are a U.S. citizen." Hans von Spakovsky is a former FEC member and Heritage senior legal fellow. In this episode, he breaks down key vulnerabilities in U.S. elections. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1022HansvonSpakovsky

"In 2500 years of literacy, there were possibly 300 million people who considered themselves to be authors to an audience…In the last 40 years, we have 5 billion. This has just exploded exponentially…When you have 5 billion people in a room, what happens? Well, it's gigantic noise. …How do you get attention in this enormous, gigantic room with 5 billion people in it all talking at the same time? Number one, you want to talk louder than anybody else, so yelling and screaming is favored by the structure. Number two, if I can get you to start yelling at me, and then people start leaning up behind me saying, 'oh yeah, he's a bad guy. He's one of those guys,' and suddenly I'm a leader of my tribe, I get way more attention." Media analyst Martin Gurri explains how the information landscape has radically transformed how we communicate. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1008MartinGurri

"70% of these crop care products or pesticides are produced in India and China—mainly in China…What happens if they want to hit the kill switch? Think about the productivity loss that will occur." “Any nation that's not food secure is only three meals from chaos. And I think Xi Jinping knows that very well,” says Kip Tom, a former US ambassador to the UN agencies for food & agriculture and a 7th generation Indiana farmer. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1019KipTom

America is less food secure than we think, says Kip Tom, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. agencies for food and agriculture. Over half of all US agrochemical imports are from China. Chinese firms now own major entities like Syngenta, a global leader in agrochemicals and seeds, as well as Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer when it was acquired in 2013. There are also concerns that the Chinese regime could launch potentially crippling cyber attacks on U.S. agricultural infrastructure and data systems, he says. 🔴 PREMIERE 10/19 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1019KipTom

"China, all at the same time, is moving to a position where it could soon achieve nuclear superiority, not just over the United States, but also over Russia. China is building a navy that is today larger than the American Navy, and by the mid 2030s could have the ability to, on its own, invade and take over a country like New Zealand, help a country like Argentina win a second war over the Falklands Islands, definitely will be able to invade, conquer, and massacre the democracy of Taiwan, or help the dictatorship in North Korea To conquer and destroy the democracy in South Korea.” - Richard Fisher 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader:https://ept.ms/S1005RickFisher

"I know that there was something missing from my education. I didn't exactly learn table settings or how to sit down or how to greet people. That kind of education has disappeared. So, I'm kind-of interested to bring back the eight hours of an etiquette course." Mikhaila Fuller is a podcast host, and the co-founder and CEO of Peterson Academy. "There's a veil of wokeness that has infiltrated most of the courses taught in university.” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1017MikhailaPeterson

"We're getting top professors from institutions and we're not telling them how to teach. We're saying, 'teach this course if it was exactly the way you'd want to teach it, without guidelines from somebody else put on you'" says Mikhaila Fuller, co-founder of Peterson Academy. “We have chosen professors carefully that don't have a political bent. So, it's mostly trying to avoid woke ideology & politics in courses that shouldn't necessarily be political." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1017MikhailaPeterson

“If you look at countries in Europe, I don't know that a single country there encourages these new mRNA boosters for children or for young people…They're really focused on people who are older and/or have comorbid conditions. …In this country, it's completely insane. There's no data - literally, there is zero data for these boosters, in terms of clinical data, showing that they will do even a drop of good. And they're being promoted like everyone should get them.” - Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo explains why he made the controversial decision not to recommend the new boosters. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1003JosephLadapo

"I believe regenerative agriculture - healthy soil - is the best pathway forward for humans, animals and the planet," says regenerative farmer and entrepreneur Mollie Engelhart. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1015MollieEngelhart