President Donald Trump returned to Washington in January with a mandate from the American people to end mass migration. That same month, however, the foreign-born population living within America’s borders hit a record high, in an echo of the Roman empire.
Is it too late to save America from mass migration? Even if America is saved, will it be fundamentally changed in the process?
Here, Victor Davis Hanson asks: Is the age of American Empire over or just beginning?
FBI Director Kash Patel is shutting down the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C.—a decision originally made under the Biden administration’s FBI. Symbolically, the closure speaks volumes.
Victor Davis Hanson walks us through the troubling legacy left behind at the FBI HQ on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
Says Hanson, “ Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, was the head of the Special Counsel’s Office. Remember that? And he had the dream team—the all-stars, a hunter/killer team—with the Left. He was almost giddy about that they were gonna get Donald Trump on Russian collusion.”
Hanson continues, “ That same office then gave us Christopher Wray. Why was he spying on parents at school board meetings? Why was he spying on what they called ‘radical-traditional Catholics’? Why did they go after abortion protesters, but not in the same way people who were protesting pro-life?”
Why did Joe Biden let 10-12 million people into the U.S. illegally?
The Good News: We’ve gone from over 120,000 people a month coming across the border illegally in April 2024 to fewer than 10,000 in April 2025.
The Bad News: The Left operates under a simple principle: “It is lawful to be unlawful if you’re Joe Biden—according to the courts—but it is unlawful to be lawful if you’re Donald Trump.
And the result is that we’ve got these 10 to 12 million people. Are we going to have an immigration hearing for each one of them? Or are we just going to pick people?” Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson on The Daily Signal.
Victor Davis Hanson isn’t just a historian — he’s a voice warning of patterns we’ve seen before, and where they lead. As a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, he connects the fall of past empires with the cracks forming in our own world today.
In this video, we reveal Hanson’s urgent message — one the media has mostly ignored. You’ll see why it matters now more than ever, and how it could impact your life sooner than you think. Among the topics he addresses: The Ukraine War, tariffs, J.D. Vance, transgenders in women’s sports and the leftists tearing down old statues. What President Donald Trump is initiating, says Hanson, is “a return to normalcy. It’s a return to common sense.” Here’s more from Old Soul.
In this video, Victor Davis Hanson exposes the left’s lies about tariffs. Hanson takes a deep dive into how progressive critics misrepresent tariffs as harmful, often portraying them as economic poison that hurts American workers and consumers. He argues that the left’s criticism of tariffs is rooted not in economic reality, but in a broader ideological opposition to Donald Trump’s policies.
Hanson reveals how tariffs, in many cases, are a strategic tool aimed at rebalancing trade and protecting American industries, rather than the disastrous tactic the left claims. Through careful analysis, Hanson shows how the left’s anti-tariff narrative is driven by political bias and a misunderstanding of global trade dynamics.
Ultimately, he contends that Trump’s tariff policies exposed deep flaws in both American trade practices and the global economic system. Here’s more from Inner Vision.
What is it going to take for universities like Columbia University in New York City to start protecting their Jewish students?
Having the President of the United States cut off $400 million in federal funding is a good start, says Victor Davis Hanson in today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“ It’s widespread in higher education and the country’s been appalled by it. But for some reason, higher education seems to equate Jewish Americans and, by definition, Israel with the white oppressor side of their Marxist binary, which is non-white oppressed versus white oppressor. “
Hanson continues, “ For a long time, the university has decided that it will make no more pretense that it’s disinterested. It’s partisan, and it’s political, and it’s left-wing, and it’s proud of it.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, was fired from his post last month, along with several other high-ranking military officials. Many of the Left rushed to say that President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were “politicizing” the Pentagon. However, “This is not the politicalization of the Pentagon. It’s the depoliticalization”, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“ They said, ‘This is reckless, it hurts morale, and it will depress recruitment.’ Let’s analyze that just for a second. Recruitment reached near-record levels after the election of Donald Trump. It’s on the way up. It was depressed prior to that.
Why would it be depressed? If you go through the Pentagon data, it’s very hard to decipher. “
More importantly, Leon Panetta signed this letter. He was one, also, of the 51 intelligence authorities that said, right on the eve of the election and on a few days before the 2020 debate, that Hunter [Biden’s] laptop, which was in the hands of the FBI and authenticated, had all the hallmarks of a Russian information, which meant disinformation, campaign.
“ Bottom line: We don’t need any more letters from so-called experts. They’re always partisan. And they’re to no effect.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the French foreign minister after the French Revolution, once remarked, “They have forgotten nothing and they’ve learned nothing.” Meaning, the same thing is going to happen again and again.
That’s applicable to today’s angry, almost addicted Left, argues Victor Davis Hanson in this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“We have suffered now from almost a decade of Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, five criminal and civil suits, 91 indictments, efforts to get [Donald Trump] off the ballot. I could go on and on in a nauseating fashion, but they all have had two results.
“One, the people are now bored and weary with all of these psychodramas and melodramas. And two, they’re starting to see them as substitutes for substantive criticism or substantive discussion …”
The U.S. Agency for International Development appears to have given $8.2 million to Politico, the digital website with an American political focus, based in Arlington County, Virginia. It’s unclear why a domestic news site received grants from an agency charged with international affairs.
But thanks to Anthony Brian Logan, we now know that some 236 separate payments were made to Politico. The vast majority of that funding came during the Joe Biden administration, with the bulk of it happening in 2024 as the presidential election campaign was under way.
Was this an attempt by Joe Biden to buy an election, using money collected from taxpayers to benefit his own leftist party? Much stricter laws are needed to govern against such blatant corruption. It doesn’t matter if it was $8,000, $8 million or $80 million. It stinks to high heaven, and must be rooted out and stopped forever.
Fortunately, it appears the Donald Trump administration plans to discontinue the practice. Meanwhile, the fake news purveyors of Politico will need to find a new scam to float their boat. Here’s more from ABL — Anthony Brian Logan’s shorthand for his video channel.
Also receiving more than $40 million from USAID was the Wuhan Virology Lab where the strands of Covid-19 were developed and leaked — to generate the worldwide pandemic. This money was transferred in a roundabout way to Wuhan through an outfit called EcoHealth.
Thus, it’s becoming clear now, Anthony Fauci openly lied to Congress about his involvement in the spread of the coronavirus. He might have only had $600,000 to give the Wuhan lab, but the USAID — the CIA front — stepped forward to magnify and accelerate the project. In the end, they brought death and destruction around the world, with individuals locked inside their own houses, unable to travel or communicate freely with even their closest relatives.
Victor Davis Hanson calls USAID a leftist “rogue organization.” He adds, “It’s been released that they were subsidizing everything from trans festivities overseas to gay comic books. But what was very interesting was there was a $40 million-plus grant to the Wuhan virology lab and channeled, apparently, through EcoHealth, Peter Daszak’s organization. This is important because under testimony, we were under the impression that Anthony Fauci only had his hands on $600,000.”
Here’s more from Hanson on The Daily Signal.
USAID earmarked billions of dollars for outrageous leftist causes. In the weeks and months ahead, we’ll bring you updates as we learn more about each project, who got the money, and what purposes were supposedly served. Pravda, the Russian newspaper, is already having a field day ripping into the United States for this glaring corruption. Pravda carried a news article, claiming that USAID spent between $8 billion and $12 billion promoting Ukraine in its war against Russia.
The highlight of the article? Dollar amounts were spilled for a variety of Hollywood stars who made trips to Ukraine to support President Volodymyr Zelensky and rally the citizenry. Among the highest paid visitors: Jean Claude Van Damme, $1.5 million; Ben Stiller, $4 million; Sean Penn, $5 million; and Orlando Bloom, $8 million. The queen bee: Angelina Jolie, supposedly netted a cool $20 million for a one-day trip to Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine!
Aparently, Hollywood’s liberal impulses aren’t so altruistic, but driven by cold, hard cash. Of course, Pravda could be lying and painting an outright fabrication. They are at war against the Ukraine, after all!
So we present Pravda’s claims, but we don’t necessarily believe them entirely. We await final word from Elon Musk’s DOGE auditors and hope they will ferret out the full truth about USAID’s grandiose excesses. In the meantime, here’s an excellent overview of this scandal from Man In America. The subtitle: “Your Taxes Fund Child Trafficking, Terrorism, Propaganda, Regime Changes & More.” The centerpiece of this report: Clips from Mikki Willis’ film Plandemic.
