GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Shea Bradley-Farrell, Ph.D. is the President of the Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research, and Education (CIPRE) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Shea is an expert in foreign policy and aid, national security, international development, and women’s issues. She is the author of Last Warning to the West: Hungary's Triumph Over Communism and the Woke Agenda, published in December 2023 with a foreword written by Kari Lake and back cover reviews by Lou Dobbs, Tucker Carlson, Gen. Mike Flynn, and Rep. Paul Gosar.

​Dr. Shea worked directly with the Trump administration, including Sec. Mike Pompeo and Senior Advisor Ivanka Trump, on multiple issues, while serving as the VP of International Affairs for Concerned Women for America. Most recently she was professor and subject matter expert for the Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU) of the U.S. Department of Defense.

​She has frequently published Op-eds in RealClear Politics, Human Events, Newsmax, National Review, The Washington Times, and many others. She is a weekly contributor to SiriusXM Patriot Stacy on the Right and Victory News TV and a regular guest on multiple news and radio shows. Dr. Shea presents at conferences worldwide, such as the Wilson Center for International Scholars, the U.S. Department of State, the Heritage Foundation, CPAC Hungary 2022 and 2023, and the Gulf Studies Symposium.

She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Tulane University.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Mark Ramseyer, author of The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp, is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1982. He clerked for the Hon. Stephen Breyer (then on the First Circuit), worked for two years at Sidley & Austin (in corporate tax), and studied as a Fulbright student at the University of Tokyo. After teaching at UCLA and the University of Chicago, he moved to Harvard in 1998. He writes and lectures in both English and Japanese, and has also taught or co-taught courses at several Japanese universities (in Japanese).