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Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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April 3, 2020Updated: April 4, 2020

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In this episode of American Thought Leaders ??, we sit down with Dr. Karlyn Borysenko, an organizational psychologist and avid knitter, who came to notice some disturbing trends in her knitting community. In February, she penned an article on Medium titled, “After Attending a Trump Rally, I Realized Democrats Are Not Ready For 2020.”

We discuss cancel culture, why she decided to rethink her own politics, and how to have difficult conversations with people on the other side of the political spectrum.

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