American Thought Leaders

With Democrats sweeping the House and Senate in the midterms last night, I’m sitting down with classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson to get his take on the results and what they mean for the Trump administration, the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, and the 2028 elections.

Hanson is the author of multiple bestselling books, including most recently, “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement.”
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Is Beijing trying to meddle in the 2026 midterm elections in America? How has Beijing’s strategy against America changed in recent months? How have China’s economic woes and military purges altered the political landscape in Beijing? And will these change Xi Jinping’s calculus around Taiwan?

In this episode, I sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang, author of “Plan Red” and “The Coming Collapse of China.”
From Chinese biolabs found in California and Las Vegas to increasing Chinese provocations in the South China Sea and East China Sea, Chang believes the world is growing more dangerous—and Americans are not prepared.
Follow Gordon Chang on X: @GordonGChang
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At FreedomFest, I spoke with actor Kelsey Grammer about why he believes the American founding remains a living source of wisdom. With the nation celebrating its 250th anniversary, he has been building The American Revelation, a project aimed at making American history more accessible, personal, and compelling.
What happens when a society teaches its children primarily to see their country through guilt and failure, rather than through the achievements and principles that made reform possible in the first place? What does it mean to be grateful for a country while still recognizing that it is, as Grammer puts it, “a process,” one that depends on each generation choosing to understand, defend, and improve it?
Join us for this conversation about history, freedom, and whether Americans can rediscover what made the American experiment worth fighting for.
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There have been eight deaths—six killings and at least two suicides—linked to a radical group known as the Zizians.
Investigative journalist Andy Ngo, who has been at the forefront of studying far-left violence, reveals how an extreme version of Silicon Valley rationalist philosophy and effective altruism gave rise to a death cult.
His latest book is titled “The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.”
Ngo believes there’s a “clustering” effect at the most extreme fringes of transgender ideology, where psychiatric vulnerabilities, easy access to cross-sex hormones, and a persistent activist narrative of a “trans genocide” have combined to create a deadly feedback loop.
In this episode, Ngo unpacks a disturbing landscape. How can online networks recruit and radicalize vulnerable youths? How did the Zizians form, and what have they done across the United States? And why have there been no trials?
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“When you see the recent riots, destruction of stores, looting, burning [of] historic buildings, including churches ... you have to realize these things do not happen spontaneously,” says investigative journalist and bestselling author Richard Miniter.

What is the link between what’s unfolding on the streets of France and the Iranian regime?
Why might Iran be interested in influencing events in Europe—and is there a broader connection to the Iran war?
And what is U.S. President Donald Trump’s end game for the region?
“What hasn’t been explained—and is non-obvious to the American public—is that Iran is the gas station of Xi Jinping,” Miniter says. “What’s going on in Iran is designed to prevent a war off the coast of China in Taiwan.”
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