American Thought Leaders

American Thought Leaders


Latest Episodes

Bob Woodson: Slavery Was America’s “Birth Defect,” But It Doesn’t Define America [20200226]
March 06, 2020

“The 1619 Project” published by New York Times Magazine has been described by several Civil War scholars as historically inaccurate. But In the eyes of Bob Woodson, who has devoted the past several decades to helping people in troubled, low-income...

Curtis Ellis: Coronavirus Fallout Shows Dangers of Over-Reliance on China [20200223]
February 27, 2020

Just how is the coronavirus outbreak in China affecting global supply chains? How does this inform decisions and risk associated with offshoring manufacturing to China? And will the COVID-19 outbreak impact the phase one China trade deal? In this...

Brent Bozell: On Media Bias, the Death of Local News, and the 30-Year Decline of the News Industry [20200220]
February 26, 2020

How has the media industry changed over the last 30 years? Can media bias be empirically measured? Despite the information revolution, how are people actually getting less information instead of more? How have social media and big tech transformed the...

Gordon Chang: Coronavirus in China, Its Economic Impact & Chinese Influence Operations [20200219]
February 24, 2020

What does the coronavirus outbreak reveal about the priorities of the Chinese communist regime? How are US companies in China being impacted? And how does all this intersect with the Chinese regime’s extensive influence operations in the US? This is...

Casey Fleming: China’s Communist Party Uses All Sectors to Wage War on the US; The US Must Respond [20200217]
February 23, 2020

How has the Chinese Communist Party used unconventional tactics to wage war on the US for the past several decades? And why did almost nobody notice? What is asymmetric hybrid warfare, and how is it central to the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy...

Epidemic Reporter Laurie Garrett: China Coronavirus: Tough Realities & Possibility of Global Pandemic [20200216]
February 18, 2020

Through the eyes of a reporter who has worked in over 30 epidemic zones, including SARS in China and Ebola in West Africa, just how big a threat is the current coronavirus outbreak? How can coronavirus be transmitted? How virulent is it, and how does...

Sec. Ben Carson: Fighting Homelessness: HUD Program Helps Foster Youth With Housing Like Family Would [20200216]
February 17, 2020

Just what is it like to suddenly have no place to live when you turn 21? Every year, roughly 5,000 such foster care youth end up homeless. But a new program is poised to completely change all that, and change it as early as this year. This is American...

Matt Stoller: Crisis of Democracy - Monopoly Power, From Big Tech to China [20200207]
February 11, 2020

In the eyes of Open Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller, how has the rise of monopolies and corporate centralization in America led to a crisis of democracy? How did government policy contribute to this? And, how has the Chinese Communist Party used...