American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

“The joke is that with the new wokeness you might get a women’s studies degree, but you can’t define what a woman is.” Karol Markowicz uprooted her family to Florida after what she viewed as “Soviet patterns” across American culture. https://ept.ms/Y0518KarolMarkowicz

The Defense Department announced that China can and probably will go to 1500 warheads by 2035, says Michael Pillsbury. Pillsbury is the co-author of the new report: “Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China.” https://ept.ms/S0504MichaelPillsbury

“When you have something like a smartphone which can be smuggled into a bedroom, it’s very difficult for a parent to control.” Adam Candeub is involved in several major First Amendment cases, which will likely shape the future of Big Tech’s impact on society. https://ept.ms/S0427AdamCandeub

“I think that the prophets and the propaganda were all part of a plan that had already been in place, and it was just waiting for Sars-CoV-2 to happen.” Brownstone Institute fellow Debbie Lerman discusses the origins of America’s pandemic policies. https://ept.ms/S0415DebbieLerman

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0601PeterBoghossian We have ideologues that have a set or a suite of propositions that they forward at the expense of all else." DEI bureaucracies consist of "extraordinarily intolerant people," says Peter Boghossian

"Ideological capture is - by definition - corruption....You can either have free speech at a university or you can have DEI bureaucracies. It is literally impossible to have both." - Peter Boghossian 🔴PREMIERE at 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0601PeterBoghossian

"The #CCP…went to find my sister and my mother and threatened them. They would say, 'Your son is abroad with Shen Yun. You must tell us everything about his activities.'" The Chinese regime has long targeted Steven Wang's family members in China for practicing the spiritual discipline of Falun Gong. And the persecution only worsened after he joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as a principal dancer. They said he was a "threat to national security." Wang's mother was recently sentenced to four years in prison. 🔴WATCH on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0529StevenWang

“If you want to destroy a person, if you want to dehumanize them, the first thing that’s always done is to attack language.” Jeff Myers, co-author of “Exposing the Gender Lie,” discusses protecting children and teens from transgender ideology. https://ept.ms/S0502ShowalterMyers

“If we don’t have people marrying and forming love relationships and having children, it’s the end. We are looking at civilizational collapse.” Adam Candeub, professor of law at Michigan State University, shares his thoughts on the effects of pornography on society. https://ept.ms/S0427AdamCandeub

“Not only is it false that you can become the opposite sex, it preys upon those who are already having a really hard time in life with their mental health.” Brandon Showalter, co-author of “Exposing the Gender Lie,” discusses gender identity ideology. https://ept.ms/S0502ShowalterMyers

“There are a lot more CCP spies in this country. I'm sure there's more arrests coming." Two suspected CCP agents were recently indicted after giving thousands in cash bribes and promising a total of $50,000 to what turned out to be an undercover FBI agent posing as an IRS official. The goal was to target the faith group of Falun Gong, according to the indictment. This was just the tip of the iceberg, says Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center. 🔴WATCH on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0530LeviBrowde

"Mao openly taught, for example, to hate the enemy. …Deplorables, unvaccinated…those are the people preventing society from—as Mao phrased it—achieving unity on a new basis." James Lindsay, author of “The Marxification of Education,” on the new variants of Marxism 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0530JamesLindsay

"It's one thing to say, oh, we got a feminist theory journal to believe in feminist AI…But these same kinds of articles are now being published in the New England Journal of Medicine." We're seeing the "Sovietization of our knowledge production” where there are right and wrong answers, says James Lindsay, author of “The Marxification of Education.” 🔴PREMIERE at 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0530JamesLindsay

"This is the unraveling of civilization if we allow for the full-scale corruption—political & ideological corruption—of our knowledge-producing sector." James Lindsay, author of “The Marxification of Education,” breaks down the Marxist underpinnings of woke radicalism. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0530JamesLindsay

​​“The concepts of feminism prevent us from asking these questions because then it’s misogyny.” Adam Coleman, founder of Wrong Speak Publishing, discusses feminism, growing up without a father, the importance of family planning, and more. https://ept.ms/S0110AdamColeman

“The fact that there are 6,500 cataloged biological differences between males and females is set aside.” Jeff Myers is the co-author of “Exposing the Gender Lie: How to Protect Children and Teens from the Transgender Industry’s False Ideology.” https://ept.ms/S0502ShowalterMyers

“That’s my issue when it comes to modern feminism. It’s female empowerment by means of discarding men or slandering men,” says Adam Coleman, author of “Black Victim to Black Victor.” This exists in the black community because it’s promoted, Coleman adds. https://ept.ms/S0110AdamColeman

Two suspected CCP agents were indicted after giving thousands in cash bribes to try to get the IRS to target Falun Gong. They promised a total of $50,000 to what turned out to be an undercover FBI agent posing as an IRS official. What’s going on? This is just the tip of the iceberg, says Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center. “Stay tuned. There are a lot more CCP spies in this country. I'm sure there's more arrests coming.” 🔴 PREMIERE 1pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0530LeviBrowde

"After the #CCP figured out I had joined Shen Yun Performing Arts, they put my sister and mother under constant surveillance and threatened them to try to force them to share details about me,” says Shen Yun principal dancer Steven Wang. Steven Wang's mother was recently sentenced to 4 years in prison. 🔴 PREMIERE 7pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0529StevenWang

"I haven't seen my mother since my law school graduation 19 yrs ago. I lost my father last April & because I have been sanctioned by Xi Jinping's #China, I could not even go home to pay respect to my late father." Nury Turkel, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, breaks down the Chinese regime's war on religion. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0527NuryTurkel