American Thought Leaders

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.”

Dr. Daniel Monti, physician who founded the first integrative medicine department and studies mind-body techniques. He discusses combining Western care with nutrition, NET mind-body therapy, NAC antioxidant research for Parkinson’s, advanced testing like genomics and microbiome, and a live NET demonstration exploring trauma-linked sleep blocks.

Elaine Culotti, entrepreneur and founder of the Mayors Matter project, traveled California to interview 50 mayors. She highlights that most of the state is purple and mayors focus on two priorities: public safety and economic development. She argues Sacramento’s centralization, unfunded mandates, and tax shifts undermine local control and strain cities trying to deliver results.

Grace Jin Drexel, daughter of detained Pastor Ezra Jin and an advocate against religious persecution in China. She recounts mass detentions of underground churches, the 2018 crackdown on Zion Church, online‑offline worship shifts, portraits of Xi replacing crosses, medical and communication limits for her father, and transnational harassment of her family. She urges international attention and reunification.

Jonathan Butcher, acting director at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy and author of The Polarization Myth, discusses survey findings showing surprising majorities on hot-button issues. He covers public views on biological sex and gender in schools, opposition to racial preferences in college, the pushback against DEI, and the idea that loud minorities, not most Americans, drive the culture-war narrative.

Alex Gray, former National Security Council chief of staff and Arctic security expert, explains why Greenland and Canada are pivotal to U.S. strategy against China. He traces 150 years of interest, maps Arctic chokepoints and submarine routes, and warns of a Solomon Islands style Chinese playbook in Greenland. He also flags Canada’s defense gaps and urges proactive security compacts and planning.

Xi Van Fleet, survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and author, offers a historian’s view of how U.S. decisions helped the Chinese Communist Party endure. She recounts propaganda, United Front tactics, Nixon’s rapprochement, and how reform-era economics failed to democratize China. Short, sharp takes on ideological control, historical blind spots, and why understanding this hidden history matters.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, physician, former Stanford professor and NIH director reforming biomedical research. He discusses reshaping NIH priorities toward health impact, rethinking China partnerships and audit rules, pausing suspect gain-of-function grants, confronting replication failures, and shifting funding away from politicized DEI programs to reproducible, high-impact science.

Raymond Zhang, an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for exposing forced organ harvesting, discusses making State Organs. He recounts chilling whistleblower testimony, uncovering Yun’s last recording, and following families’ searches. He also covers a policeman’s repentance and threats against screenings in Taiwan.

Matthew Spalding, a Hillsdale College professor and author on the American founding, explains why the Declaration of Independence is a claim of lasting truth rooted in natural law. He traces founders’ ancient Greek, Roman, and Judeo-Christian influences. He contrasts natural-rights thinking with modern historicism and shows how the Declaration philosophically anchors constitutional government.