American Thought Leaders

Frank Bisignano, a former fintech and banking executive now overseeing the Social Security Administration and the IRS. He discusses modernizing massive federal systems with digitization and data reconciliation. He explains cleaning up the Death Master File, improving payment accuracy, rolling out child savings "Trump accounts," and boosting tax-season benefits and system availability.

Adnan Al-Khalili, a Gen Z entrepreneur who founded Touch Grass Together to revive real-life rituals, talks about youth lost in immersive online worlds. He explains how excessive screen time, addictive diets, and virtual communities harm metabolic health. He describes a four-part framework — light, movement, nourishment, human connection — and how tech can be repurposed to pull young people outside.

Casey Fleming, a national security and cybersecurity strategist and CEO of BlackOps Partners, outlines the CCP’s multi-vector unrestricted warfare. He discusses cognitive tools like TikTok, drug and biological vectors such as fentanyl and COVID, supply-chain and tech vulnerabilities, and individual steps to protect your data and purchases.

J.D. Haltigan, a developmental psychologist and social science scholar, explores rising valorization of mental illness and a perceived feminization of institutions. He links sex differences in empathizing vs systemizing to social movements, social media’s role in normalizing sick‑role identities, and concerns about declining norms and discipline. Short, provocative, and wide‑ranging.

Robert Suettinger, former CIA and State Department analyst and China scholar, offers sharp, on-the-ground perspective. He discusses Xi Jinping’s sweeping military purges and the strange silence from military commands. He traces factional resistance inside the party, Beijing’s recalibration after U.S. strikes, and how economic woes and propaganda shape China’s fragile politics.

Avi Loeb, Harvard astrophysicist and founder of the Galileo Project, hunts anomalies and interstellar objects. He describes building observatories that use machine learning and triangulation. He debates government data versus independent science, revisits Oumuamua’s strange behavior, and outlines plans to intercept and analyze possible extraterrestrial artifacts.

Bob Fu, founder of ChinaAid and former house-church pastor imprisoned in China, recounts his journey and mission. He discusses rising dehumanizing rhetoric against Christians, the revival of Mao-era “black categories,” harsh torture and mind-transformation tactics, advanced surveillance tools used to target faith communities, and the international implications of tech and legal cases tied to China’s repression.

Zineb Riboua, a policy analyst at Hudson Institute and founder of the China in MENA Project, unpacks China’s strategic ties with Iran. She traces Chinese-built weapons, surveillance exports, and the 25-year pact. Short takes cover China’s use of Iran to shift U.S. influence, proxy networks like the Houthis, maritime disruption, and how recent operations aim to undercut that China–Iran axis.

Dozens of Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been killed in U.S.–Israeli joint strikes on Iran.In this episode, I’m sitting down again with seasoned China analyst Gordon Chang, author of “Plan Red,” to understand how this is changing the global geopolitical landscape—especially for Beijing.Including the Venezuela raid that captured regime leader Nicolás Maduro, this is the second time President Donald Trump appears to be neutralizing a key ally of Beijing.Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessari

Jan Jekielek, senior editor and investigator who spent two decades documenting forced organ harvesting in China. He recounts how pre-typed prisoners enable rapid scheduled transplants, traces the trade’s rise from the Falun Gong crackdown, reveals Project 981’s elite longevity ties, and details expanding targets including Uyghurs and a market for “halal organs.”