American Thought Leaders

As part of our special series on alternative models of education, I’m sitting down with Michael Fitzgerald, principal of Northern Schoolhouse, an upstate New York private school focused on classical literature and art, immersion in nature, and nurturing strong moral character based on time-tested virtues.

“This is the trend in education: ‘It doesn’t matter what you’re reading, as long as you’re reading.’ And I actually disagree with that. I think it’s very important what you’re reading,” Fitzgerald says.

“In the end, we want them becoming autonomous people who know how to move themselves well through the world, as truly good people who recognize beauty,” he says.

“If you recognize beauty, you can recognize what’s good. And those are highly correlated in the classical world, especially in the Socratic sense. They talk a lot about truth, beauty, and goodness.”

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

We’re launching a special “American Thought Leaders” series during this post-election transition period in which I will be interviewing topic matter experts and former and potential future Trump administration officials to understand what the incoming American administration’s policies in 2025 may look like—for America, Canada, and the world.

Today, I’m sitting down with David M. Friedman, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel under the Trump administration, one of the main architects of the Abraham Accords, and the author of “One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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Greg Scarlatoiu is the new president of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and a longtime expert on the Korean peninsula.

In this episode, he breaks down why North Korea has sent troops to fight in Ukraine, North Korea’s long history of involvement in foreign conflicts, what the current situation in this communist nation looks like, and what America’s long-term North Korea strategy should be.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

I recently had the pleasure of attending a Pandemic Planning conference at Stanford University. It was really the first of its kind, in that it brought together a wide range of voices on the topic in an academic setting, and it was held under the auspices of the new Stanford President Jonathan Levin.

“I think it’s expanded the range of things that are allowed to be said in polite society, if you will,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy and the lead organizer of the conference.

“The purpose of the conference was to essentially open the floodgates of these kinds of events taking place everywhere around the world,” he says.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

We’re launching a special “American Thought Leaders” series during this post-election transition period in which I will be interviewing topic matter experts and former and potential future Trump administration officials to understand what the incoming U.S. administration’s policies in 2025 may look like—for America, Canada, and the world.

Today, I’m sitting down with Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. He’s also a columnist at The Epoch Times, where he writes daily about economics, technology, and culture.

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“When a country or a state legalizes assisted suicide or euthanasia, it can no longer call itself anti-suicide, because it specifically approves some suicides. ... It’s a very dangerous movement that is normalizing this kind of approach to dying as opposed to natural death.”

In this episode, I sit down with Wesley J. Smith, a lawyer, public speaker, award-winning author, and chair of the Discovery Institute Center on Human Exceptionalism.

“We’re seeing in Canada also the beginning of a situation where patients who have a tough time getting an oncologist because of such a long waiting list, ask to be killed because they can’t get quality medical care,” Smith says.

We dive into his work on bioethics and euthanasia, better known today as “medically-assisted suicide.”

“Assisted suicide and euthanasia is a symptom, not a cause, and there’s a deep nihilism that seems to have infected society on many levels,” Smith says.

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“In the last four years, there has been an unprecedented surge in Chinese illegal immigration, so an over 1100 percent increase. … There is a large underground economy tied to this network,” says Philip Lenczycki, a senior investigative reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.

He has been investigating Chinese illegal immigration networks, in particular an online Telegram channel with thousands of users that has apparently served as a hub facilitating illegal crossings with travel guides, specific border crossing points, detailed routes, and scripts for interacting with Border Patrol agents and applying for asylum. Lenczycki discovered the channel was run by a self-identified Chinese cyber police agent.

Lenczycki has also found key figures in the network promoting prostitution and sex trafficking in the United States.

In this episode, he breaks down his key findings.

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In this episode, I sit down with scientist and physician Dr. Robert Malone to discuss his latest book, “PsyWar,” co-authored with his wife, Dr. Jill Malone.

“Someone is making a decision about how people should think, what they should think, how they should feel, how they should behave in the world without consulting them, and you’re using a technology that is so powerful and effective that you’re literally reprogramming their mind without their consent,” says Dr. Malone. “The battleground is your mind.”

How are powerful forces using technology to propagandize and shape behavior? And what effect is it having on society?

“We used to have salons, we used to read books, we used to discuss things with each other, and now we just kind of sit by the sidelines and shoot spitballs,” says Dr. Malone. “Everybody agrees that we’ve become more and more splintered and fragmented, and that’s not a good thing, and it mostly benefits our adversaries.”

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“The CCP is very smart at understanding the divides in American society, and it knows how to target both sides.”

In this episode, I sit down with Chris Chappell and Shelley Zhang, creators of the popular YouTube show “China Uncensored.”

They’ve been covering Chinese Communist Party propaganda efforts and narrative warfare for more than a decade.

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“The COVID response caused much more harm than good. That’s my position on that, and I came to it by analyzing and reviewing huge amounts of academic research on all sorts of issues: excess mortality, effects on medical services, mental health, effects on the economy, poverty, food insecurity, education.”

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Kevin Bardosh. He is a medical anthropologist and the director of Collateral Global, a London-based think tank focused on improving pandemic response around the world.

“Public health has always had this tension between the authoritarian position, and then the more classical liberal, civil society philosophy,” he says.

Four years on, what have we learned about our collective response to the COVID crisis? If another pandemic happened tomorrow, how would our societies react?

“There still is this very strong industry—a pandemic industry—that thinks that they did a great job, and that people that are criticizing them are spreading misinformation,” Bardosh says. “And I think that that really needs to change.”

We discuss the global fallout from the COVID lockdowns, from rising obesity to rising poverty.

“All educational gains since 2000 around the world were wiped out with the school closures,” Bardosh says.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.