American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

“It was a pretty lonely job for a period of time. … I was getting criticism from other Republicans, from my supporters, from people that had known me my whole life that were calling and saying, Kristi, get in line with these other governors. This is going to be political destruction for you.” South Dakotan governor Kristi Noem is the only governor to never lock down any businesses during the COVID pandemic. In her new book, “Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland,” she reflects on her life, her faith, and how she arrived at some of the most difficult decisions of her career. Why did she choose to not lock down any businesses in her state? And where does she actually stand on transgender athletes in women’s sports? In this up-close-and-personal interview with Governor Noem, we discuss her hopes, her regrets, and what she sees as the path forward for America. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0702KristiNoem ⭕ Independence Day 50%OFF 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0630SethDillon ⭕ $1 for 2 months 👉https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ "Rationality itself is under attack. It's not just free speech. There are people who have abandoned rationality on purpose and are trying to get you to go along with agreeing with them that 2 and 2 make 5." In this episode, we sit down with Seth Dillon, CEO of the satire website The Babylon Bee.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0630SethDillon ⭕ $1 for 2 months 👉https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ “There's no bigger sign of insecurity in your ideas and your values and your positions if you're saying, look, they're off-limits. … You can’t oppose them, and you can't joke about them.” In this episode, we sit down with Seth Dillon, CEO of the satire website The Babylon Bee.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0628PelosoRegoto 🔵 $1 for 2 months 👉 https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ “The honest truth is that if we were not there, the truth wasn't going to get captured the way that it did." We sit down with Andrew Peloso and Jeremy Regoto, directors of the new docuseries Trucking for Freedom. They take us inside what they witnessed and captured at the frontlines of the Freedom Convoy trucker protests in Canada.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0628PelosoRegoto 🔵 $1 for 2 months 👉 https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ “You could tell they were fighting for something bigger than just becoming a viral hit overnight or trying to take power. They were fighting for their families. They didn't have a job to go back to so this was their last shot. … They really meant it when they parked on those streets of Ottawa.” We sit down with Andrew Peloso and Jeremy Regoto, directors of the new docuseries Trucking for Freedom. They take us inside what they witnessed and captured at the frontlines of the Freedom Convoy trucker protests in Canada. Chapter One of the series is now streaming on EpochTV and Chapter Two will come out soon.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0628PelosoRegoto 🔵 $1 for 2 months 👉 https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ “You could tell they were fighting for something bigger than just becoming a viral hit overnight or trying to take power. They were fighting for their families. They didn't have a job to go back to so this was their last shot. … They really meant it when they parked on those streets of Ottawa.” We sit down with Andrew Peloso and Jeremy Regoto, directors of the new docuseries Trucking for Freedom. They take us inside what they witnessed and captured at the frontlines of the Freedom Convoy trucker protests in Canada in 2021. Chapter One of the series is now streaming on EpochTV and Chapter Two will come out soon.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0625DavidStilwell 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan Why is China engaging in dangerous aerial intercepts? What’s fueling the Chinese regime’s “zero-COVID” policy? And how is Beijing weaponizing our media and information systems against us? I sit down with retired brigadier general David Stilwell. From 2011 to 2013, he served as the Defense Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 2019.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0625DavidStilwell 🔵 $1 for 2 months 👉 https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ “When we say war, the first thing Dave Stilwell thinks of is my F-16 with bombs, kinetics, killing people and breaking their things. … That's not how the PRC thinks of war.” I sit down with retired brigadier general David Stilwell. From 2011 to 2013, he served as the Defense Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 2019. Why is #China engaging in dangerous aerial intercepts? What’s fueling the Chinese regime’s “zero-COVID” policy? And how is Beijing weaponizing our media and information systems against us?

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0623JodiShaw 🔵 $1 for 2 months 👉https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ "The hired facilitators said any white person who displays discomfort or distress when asked to discuss their race is not actually feeling distress. What they're exhibiting is a power play. And that is white fragility." Today I sit down with Jodi Shaw, who has become an influential figure in the growing movement opposing training based on critical race theory, in academia and beyond. She made waves when she started speaking out in 2019 about the increasing illiberalism she saw at her then-employer and alma mater, Smith College.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0623JodiShaw 🔵 $1 for 2 months 👉https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ "I am asking the court to decide…Are we still interpreting civil rights law in the manner in which it was written, which does include white people?" CRT training is discriminatory and violates civil rights law, says former Smith College employee Jodi Shaw. She made waves when she started speaking out in 2019 about the increasing illiberalism she saw at her then-employer and alma mater, Smith College.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0621SiyamakKhorrami 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan "Sometimes you see people walking into a store with a calculator, calculating & adding up how much they're stealing. If it's below $950…they won't take you to jail." I sit down with Siyamak Khorrami, host of California Insider, to discuss his new documentary California’s Crime Wave, which is now streaming on EpochTV.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0621SiyamakKhorrami ⭕ $1 for 2 months 👉https://ept.ms/1For2Months-Jan_ “If it's below $950, it's a misdemeanor. … There is no accountability. You can go and steal whatever you want and walk out of the store and do it again the next day.” I sit down with Siyamak Khorrami, host of California Insider, to discuss his new documentary California’s Crime Wave, which is now streaming on EpochTV. What’s causing the sharp rise in crime in California? And why are official statistics grossly inaccurate?

“Law schools have, for many years, been graduating the sorts of people who believe that long-standing legal norms perpetuate oppression and that we are justified in suspending them in order to solve various moral emergencies." Was the Supreme Court draft ruling leak indicative of a broader shift in America’s legal institutions? Today, I sit down with Aaron Sibarium, a writer for the Washington Free Beacon and the former opinion editor of Yale Daily News. He’s been researching how law schools have been impacted by woke ideology. How will this ideological shift impact America’s legal systems long-term? 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0618AaronSibarium 🔵 Father's Day: 50% OFF👉https://ept.ms/FatherDSale-Jan_

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0618AaronSibarium 🔵 Father's Day: 50% OFF👉https://ept.ms/FatherDSale-Jan_ “The whole premise of the American legal system is that everyone—no matter how unpopular—deserves legal representation. John Adams famously defended the British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre. And he said it was one of the greatest things he ever did for the fledgling Republic that he helped found. And that ethos is just not there to the same degree today.” Today, I sit down with Aaron Sibarium, a writer for the Washington Free Beacon and the former opinion editor of Yale Daily News. He’s been researching how law schools have been impacted by woke ideology. “Law schools have, for many years, been graduating the sorts of people who believe that long-standing legal norms perpetuate oppression and that we are justified in suspending them in order to solve various moral emergencies,” Sibarium says.

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0616MattiasDesmet 🔵 Father's Day: 50% OFF👉https://ept.ms/FatherDSale-Jan_ “No matter how absurd the narrative becomes, people will continue to buy into it—at least the 20 or 30% of the population that is really in [its] grip and that is really hypnotized.” Mattias Desmet is one of the world’s leading experts on the phenomenon known as “mass formation,” which can occur when people are isolated from one another and free-floating anxiety is prevalent. Tonight, he breaks down what it is, what causes it, and how he’s seen it manifest during this pandemic.

Why did large swaths of society suddenly buy into masking toddlers or restricting people from visiting their loved ones, even as they lay on their deathbeds? I sit down with Mattias Desmet, a professor of clinical psychology and author of “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.” Desmet is one of the world’s leading experts on the phenomenon known as “mass formation,” which can occur when people are isolated from one another and free-floating anxiety is prevalent. “The real reason why they buy into the narrative is always because it leads to this new social bond, because it frees them from their anxiety, because it enables them to direct their frustration and aggression at something,” Desmet says. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0616MattiasDesmet 🔵 Father's Day: 50% OFF👉https://ept.ms/FatherDSale-Jan_

"History tells us that whoever controls the textbooks, controls the future." Kirk Cameron says much of the public school system is "grooming" kids "towards sexual chaos." We discuss his new film "The Homeschool Awakening." 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0614KirkCameron 🔵 Father's Day: 50% OFF👉https://ept.ms/FatherDSale-Jan_

"In most places, the public school system has gotten so bad, they're doing more grooming than they are educating, grooming toward sexual chaos & leftist politics than any real educating toward truth & beauty & goodness." Today I sit down with actor Kirk Cameron, who’s most well-known for his role in the 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains.” He is the executive producer and star of the new documentary “The Homeschool Awakening.” 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0614KirkCameron 🔵 Father's Day: 50% OFF👉https://ept.ms/FatherDSale-Jan_

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0611NaomiWolf 🔵 Father's Day: 50% OFF👉 https://ept.ms/FatherDSale-Jan_ The pandemic “provided cover and a pretext for a handful of bad actors ranging from the Chinese Communist Party to the World Economic Forum to tech companies…to re-engineer our free, democratic, open societies." Dr. Naomi Wolf, author of “The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human”

“It's not just the vaccine. It’s a little bit of cruelty, a little bit of inequality, a little bit of discrimination, a little bit of masking children, so they can't breathe, a little bit of accepting the sacrifices of people that we don't sacrifice back for, a little bit of complete alienation of the classes from one another…just an injection, just another injection, just losing your job. … And now a CCP-style cruelty is something that we tolerate.” I sit down with author and columnist Dr. Naomi Wolf, author of “The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human.” #VaccinePassports are just one part of a broader new digital tyranny we are facing, argues Dr. Naomi Wolf. “These technocratic elites really do believe that they can order the world better than you and I and that they have the right to.” 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0611NaomiWolf 🔵 Father's Day: 50% OFF👉 https://ept.ms/FatherDSale-Jan_