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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Something snapped in American life and it didn’t start yesterday. We rewind to a question so many of us have asked at kitchen tables, over beers, and at our kids’ games: what happened to our country? Then we walk back through three books that, taken together, offer one diagnosis: America is in the middle of a cultural revolution, and the battleground is institutions, education, and the stories we tell about ourselves. We connect K...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A signature can look like safety, right up until the day it becomes worthless ink. We take you back to 1933 Germany to watch a deal get made with Adolf Hitler and then dismantled piece by piece, revealing why legal guarantees cannot protect anyone when an authoritarian regime treats law as theater. We set the context most people miss: German Catholics had lived through decades of hostility stretching back to Bismarck’s Kulturkampf...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A 78-year-old man sits in solitary confinement in Hong Kong with a 20-year sentence hanging over him. He could have left. He could have said the words that would have set him free. Jimmy Lai refused to lie, and that single act of conscience explains why authoritarian power reacts so fiercely to one person who won’t be bought or frightened into agreement. We trace Lai’s story from his rise as a self-made publisher and founder...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message America just hit a milestone that should make all of us pause: 250 years of self-government. We’re not doing a victory lap or a doom spiral. We’re making a case. Do the principles that built the United States still hold up, and if they do, why does it feel like we’re struggling to live them? We walk through three “nuggets” that tie the whole America 250 series together, drawing on Brett Baier’s The Case for America along with the ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Where do your rights come from, and what happens to a country when it gets that answer wrong? We tackle the most radical political claim baked into the American founding: unalienable rights don’t come from the state, they come from God, and government exists to protect what you already have. That single idea flips the usual power equation and draws a hard line around conscience, belief, and the limits of political authority. We le...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message America starts as a broke, debt-soaked upstart with a near-worthless currency and almost no industrial muscle, then turns into a nation that produces a massive share of what the world makes. That’s not a trivia fact to us. It’s a question worth wrestling with, because the answer points to what actually drives prosperity and what quietly kills it. We pull three “nuggets of wisdom” from John Steele Gordon’s An Empire of Wealth and l...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message He told America judges are umpires, not lawmakers. Two decades later, Chief Justice John Roberts is still calling balls and strikes, but sometimes it sounds like he’s redrawing the strike zone. We dig into the irony and the real-world consequences of Roberts’ “institutionalist” approach, starting with one of the most debated Supreme Court decisions of our time: the Obamacare individual mandate in *NFIB v. Sebelius*. We walk throug...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A name can hide your mission or it can tell the truth. We’re choosing truth, which is why Team Mojo Academy becomes the Mojo Book Academy. This is not a logo swap. It’s us saying out loud that books are not a hobby on the side, they’re the method of formation, the way tradition is carried, and the way a serious person can still learn from Aristotle, Aquinas, Burke, and Chesterton when modern schools, universities, and even parts of...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message “These are the times that try men’s souls” still lands like a hammer and we use it as a mirror for the hardest civic question a free country faces: when is war truly necessary? As America nears 250 years, we go back to December 1776, when Washington’s army is collapsing and Thomas Paine writes The American Crisis. Washington has Paine’s words read aloud before the Delaware crossing and the Battle of Trenton, and that moment sets th...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A leader can denounce the system all day and still end up defending it with their decisions. We take a sharp look at what we call Donald Trump’s “Fauci moment” during COVID: elevating Dr. Anthony Fauci as the public face of “the science,” then publicly turning on him while keeping him in place. That choice, we argue, didn’t just create confusion. It made Trump own parts of the lockdowns, the shifting guidance, and the sense that no...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is a video and audio podcast: click here for video Maduro in a New York City jail cell makes for a clean headline, but we can’t rebuild a country with headlines. We zoom out from the drama and ask the harder question: what comes next for Venezuela when the man is gone but the machine remains? I’m David Kaiser, and this Mojo Minute connects today’s crisis to a book that saw these problems coming decades ago: Hernando de S...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is a video and audio podcast: video here The loudest take on the U.S. China summit was that it went nowhere. We see something else: a negotiation structure being built in real time, with the next high-stakes round already scheduled in Washington just 90 days out. Using Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred-Year Marathon as our guide, we break down what matters beneath the ceremony and why patience, timelines, and leverag...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A billion dollars a year. Hundreds of shell companies. And a program designed to help people stay at home that can be exploited with little more than an NPI number and an LLC. That’s the allegation at the heart of today’s Mojo Minute, sparked by an investigation into Ohio’s Medicaid home health waiver billing and the uncomfortable math hiding in plain sight. We walk through the reported mechanics of the scheme: “providers” cluster...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is a video and audio podcast. here's the video: The headline said “The First American Pope,” and within hours the storyline hardened into something neat, political, and overly confident. I didn’t buy it, so I went to the source that most commentators skipped: Paul Kengor’s new biography, American Pontiff. What I found is a much sharper, more interesting profile of Pope Leo XIV (Robert Francis Prevost) than...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message this is a video and audio podcast. the video is here https://youtu.be/VWaZzR9zlJ8 A mass invasion doesn’t have to look like soldiers crossing a line. Sometimes it looks like paperwork, policy, and perfectly legal pathways that can be scaled by governments who think in decades, not news cycles. We pick up Peter Schweizer’s The Invisible Coup and read three passages that frame the border crisis and immigration system as a set ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is a video and audio podcast. for the video click here A President calls the Pope weak, the Pope fires back, and the internet lights up with memes, clickbait, and an AI Christ image that somehow makes the whole moment feel even more unreal. But the real question we wrestle with isn’t who landed the better punch. It’s what happens to leadership when two global offices trade public insults while the biggest moral and geopo...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Iran’s nuclear clock isn’t measured in election cycles or think-tank white papers. It’s measured in days. That’s the premise driving this Liberty Minute as I respond to Cardinal Robert McElroy’s homily calling U.S. action in the U.S.-Iran war “immoral” and “needless.” I take the claim seriously and do the one thing our public arguments rarely do: I run the Catholic just war theory criteria all the way through, using the facts and t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Dan Hurley is famous for sideline fire, technical fouls, and an all-consuming drive to win, but *Never Stop* reveals a different story underneath the noise. We walk through the moments that make his memoir so much bigger than college basketball: the burned-out Seton Hall chapter where he admits how dark things got, the counseling that helped him climb back, and the long fight to become someone separate from a family legacy that mad...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A lot of us meet Fulton Sheen in fragments: a quote card, a grainy clip, a meme. But when you actually sit with his work, something steadier happens. During Holy Week, I reflect on three books that quietly re-ordered my interior life: Peace of Soul, The World’s First Love, and Life of Christ. They feel like three doors into one home, leading from a restless conscience, to a stronger Marian devotion, to a real encounter with Jesus C...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Replacing a legend usually breaks a program, not because the new leader is “bad,” but because the old standard was built on rare chemistry, authority, and time. That’s why John Scheyer's rise at Duke basketball feels so unusual: he’s stacking wins, stacking trophies, and doing it while resisting the easiest trap of all, trying to become Coach K 2.0. We walk through a simple three-pillar blueprint for coaching succession and leader...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A coaching legend leaves and the program is supposed to wobble. Duke doesn’t. We dig into the story behind Duke basketball’s stubborn ability to stay on top, from the risky decision that once brought Coach K to Durham to the new reality of John Scheyer taking the keys and winning right away. We talk honestly about why so many college basketball fans resent Duke: blue blood power, huge valuation, stacked recruiting classes, and the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message March Madness doesn’t just create upsets, it exposes pressure. When a Blue Blood full of NBA-bound freshmen meets an older underdog with nothing to lose, the scoreboard can lie and the clock tells the truth. I’m David Kaiser, and this Mojo Minute breaks down the anatomy of the NCAA Tournament upset so you can see Cinderella coming before the final buzzer. We start with the real advantage most fans ignore: expectation weight. Favor...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A Berlin classroom TV in 1989 flickers back to life as we open with a personal “Liberty Line” on what happens when people lose their fear—and why that matters for the courage we see across Iran today. From that human spark, we move straight into the hard edges of policy: why the United States chose to act, why the timeline narrowed, and how nuclear math—not rhetoric—drove urgency. We unpack Mark Halperin’s clear framing of continu...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What if a single covert operation rewired the modern Middle East? We revisit the 1953 CIA–MI6 coup that toppled Mohammad Mossadegh and restored the Shah, then follow the consequences forward: repression, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and a foreign policy defined by proxies and confrontation. Drawing on Stephen Kinzer’s research, we explore a hard question with fresh urgency: did the quest for short-term stability seed decades of blo...