American Thought Leaders

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0919JillLongThompson 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Greetings everyone! Over the last year, I’ve become increasingly concerned about the polarization that’s tearing apart America and the dehumanizing rhetoric on both sides that has become commonplace. Jill Long Thompson is a former U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana who served in the 1990s. She represented a heavily Republican district as a Democrat and a fiscal conservative and frequently worked with other legislators across the aisle. Now, extreme polarization and gerrymandering, the redrawing of district lines for partisan benefit, has made people like her few and far between in Congress, she says. In this episode, she makes the case for a return to bipartisan cooperation and civil discussion across the political aisle. She’s the editor of the new book “Across the Aisle: Why Bipartisanship Works for America." It features essays from a number of current and former members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, and opens with an essay sounding the alarm that is co-written by two former Senator Majority Leaders, Trent Lott, a Republican, and Tom Daschle, a Democrat. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

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🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0917MartyMakary 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Dr. Marty Makary is a surgeon, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and author of "Blind Spots: What Medicine Gets Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health." "We've got to recognize now the best practices are exactly opposite of what the medical establishment pounded into pediatricians for 15 years," he says. In this episode, we explore the culture of medical groupthink and cases where health recommendations have produced disastrous results, looking at diabetes, peanut allergies, opioids, C-sections, and the low-fat diet. "The medical establishment created a dogma in 1955 that fat was bad for your health. It was based on one guy: Dr. Ancel Keys," says Dr. Makary. How can America reverse the trend of chronic disease and poor metabolic health? Is there any hope? "The foundation of the medical profession is not to have a one-size-fits-all. It's always to consider nuance and to consider scientific detail," says Dr. Makary. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0831GeorgeGilder 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "Israel was transformed by the Jews. And it was the transformation - the water galore that was supplied with the desalinization & the drip irrigation, starting with 538 wells drilled in a massive effort [with] bridges & waterworks, all launched in Israel - that made it a magnet for Arabs around the region, and resulted in a massive migration of Arabs to take part in the suddenly blooming desert phantasmagoria that the Jewish imagination and vision and creativity fostered. So, that's the Israel test. How do you respond to this amazing achievement in the face of six invasions - six wars attempting to completely obliterate Israel? You know, these neighbors didn't disguise their goal. Their goal was to exterminate Israel. And they don’t talk about two state solutions. They want one state. They somehow believe that wealth springs from the land rather than from the mind. And this is the great Jewish gift to the world. They show that our opportunities are really unlimited because we live in an infinite universe of mind." - George Gilder

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0914SarahCook 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter From fake online personas to manipulated audio and deep fakes to artificial amplification networks, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more creative about how they manipulate Americans, Canadians, Taiwanese, and other targets online. Independent China researcher Sarah Cook has been studying the Chinese regime’s online campaigns for years. She says there are five key tactics the regime uses to influence our media and the global information space. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0829StarParker 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "The way that it's designed, current workers paying for current retirees, it cannot work over time. You just mentioned what kind of debt we're in. Most of the reason we're in that kind of debt is because we keep this Ponzi scheme going. We keep it going, even though, when it was first established, you had 40 workers for every retiree. Today we have three workers for every retiree. You also have people living longer, and you have all people forced into the system that they don't own…and they can't transfer it to their heirs." Star Parker, founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), argues social security in America has major flaws. In this episode, she lays out her vision for social security reform.

🔴Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0827ClareMorell 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "I'm arguing, and pleading actually, with parents to push these technologies out of childhood entirely - to say that the smartphone and social media, these technologies are too dangerous and too harmful to children. The harm-reduction measures that big tech and their libertarian allies and even pediatricians have told parents is that you can mitigate these harms with screen time limits and parental controls. And I'm trying to say, that is actually not possible, that the levels and the nature of the harms can't be effectively mitigated by screen time limits and parental controls. And so, I'm really urging parents to not accept this kind of premise that these technologies are an inevitable part of childhood. Actually, you can give your child a childhood free of social media and smartphones and other interactive screens, and protect their childhood and their brain development, so that they can enter adulthood as a successful, independent adults with agency and freedom and self-control and delayed gratification, and that we don't need to just accept that these technologies are part of childhood if we know that they're inherently harmful for kids. And they're harmful for adults. But again, there's a deeper concern with children, which is that their brains and bodies and habits and everything are still being developed. And we really want to protect this period of special vulnerability, so that they can develop into mature and healthy adults. And so, I try to explain to parents that this actually is possible. Parents and families have done this and they are flourishing because of it. And so, the book really tries to actually hold out a positive vision of what childhood can look like, and what's possible when we leave these technologies behind,” says Clare Morell.