American Thought Leaders

American Thought Leaders


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Shelby and Eli Steele: How Black Victimhood Became Black Power [20201020]
October 23, 2020

“The tragedy of America's history is that now in freedom, we embrace slavery; we embrace subservience; we embrace victimization—even as we're free,” says Shelby Steele. The shooting of Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri prompted a...

Curtis Bowers: How the Marxist Agenda Is Taking Over America Today [20201017]
October 19, 2020

A decade ago, Curtis Bowers made the documentary “Agenda: Grinding America Down” detailing a communist agenda to corrupt American institutions—from education to Hollywood to media—and subvert America and its values from within. The main...

M.A. Taylor: How the Electoral College Empowers Minorities [20201015]
October 16, 2020

There are growing calls to eliminate the electoral college and criticisms that it’s racist. But what many do not realize is that the electoral college actually amplifies the voices of ethnic minorities in America. So argues M.A. Taylor, the director...

Daniel Allott: 3 Years on the Ground in Swing States, the Real Story [20201013]
October 14, 2020

Three years ago, Daniel Allott left his job to travel around America talking to voters across the political spectrum, from farmers to students to refugees. He went to America’s most politically interesting areas, including America’s most racially...

Conrad Black: Will COVID-19 Help or Hurt Trump? [20201010]
October 13, 2020

Conrad Black says President Trump is a “president like no other” for a multitude of reasons beyond temperament. Is there a silver lining in the President contracting coronavirus, beyond what the President himself has described? Do the polls...

Tom Fitton: the Durham Probe, Flynn Case Misconduct & New Appointment [20201009]
October 10, 2020

Irregularities in the Mueller investigation keep coming to light, including 22 Mueller team phones that were wiped before having been examined for records, and a guilty plea secured by US Attorney John Durham. Now, Director of National Intelligence...

Wilfred Reilly: Breaking Down the Illusion of Systemic Racism [20201006]
October 07, 2020

“Every system you could possibly think of produces some kind of racial or sexual or class discrepancy. And this allows the radicals to be radicals eternally, and to claim that everything is racist,” says Wilfred Reilly. Headlines tell us that...

Garnett Genuis: ‘Invisible' Threat: How Communist China Subverts Institutions & Freedoms in the West [20201003]
October 04, 2020

Last year, a Tibetan-Canadian student received a torrent of hate mail, harassment, and death threats after she was elected president of her university’s student union. In 2018, an official running for local office received a letter inviting him to...

Brandon Weichert: How China, Russia Could Cripple US Satellites & Paralyze the US Military & Economy [20200929]
September 30, 2020

Russia and China have weaponized space and pulled far ahead of America in the space race, says geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert. “The Americans had better start playing catch up, otherwise, we will face a space Pearl Harbor,” Weichert said....

Mike Gonzalez: BLM Co-Founder’s Ties to Pro-Communist China Group [20200926]
September 28, 2020

The Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, has long sought to subvert America. While a number of the groups involved in recent riots have ideological ties to Beijing, what are the deeper connections? Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez...