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 o…
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 t…
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 n…
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 …
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 ma…
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 …
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 l…
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 bl…
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A map doesn’t just change with borders; it changes when the rules do. We trace a straight line from the Abraham Accords through October 7, the region-wide June escalation, and the strike that removed Iran’s Supreme Leader to explain why the Middle East just entered a new era. The thread is simple but profound: normalization unsettled the status quo, terror tried to reverse it, and a coalition responded by targeting not just fighte…
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A single game can change the national mood. From the Miracle on Ice to overtime golds and record-shattering routines, we unpack how sports moments break through cynicism, quiet the noise, and remind us we’re still capable of feeling like one country. We talk about the power of unscripted drama, why visible excellence cuts across lines, and how simple stories—our team versus the world—reconnect neighbors who can’t agree on anything…
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A speech in Munich rattled the furniture of polite consensus, and we had to unpack it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t just talk policy; he drew a bright line around what the West is and why it’s worth defending—faith, history, art, science, and a shared way of life. We dig into that message, the reaction it sparked, and the practical path it implies for America and Europe if we truly want a new Western century. We start wit…
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Lent doesn’t open with a pep talk; it starts with ashes and the hard grace of honesty. We map a clear, three-step journey that trades vague resolutions for substance: Dante’s Inferno to see sin in sharp relief, Father John Burns’ Lift Up Your Heart to walk into repentance with trust, and Thomas à Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ to practice quiet, durable holiness. Along the way, we sit with unforgettable Dante scenes that act like…
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A frail voice shouts “Nay,” an old man falls, and the House of Representatives freezes. That image of John Quincy Adams collapsing at his desk in 1848 isn’t just a dramatic opening—it’s a window into a life spent turning dry procedure into a living defense of liberty. We trace Adams from child witness to revolution and master diplomat to a president hobbled by the “corrupt bargain,” then into the most improbable chapter of all: a …
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Feeling overwhelmed isn’t a personal flaw; it’s often the predictable outcome of how we’ve redesigned childhood and campus life. We trace the surge in teen anxiety and sadness to safetyism—the belief that emotional safety should trump all other goods—and show how that lens reshaped parenting, schooling, and university culture. When we treat discomfort as harm and words as danger, we smother the very friction that builds judgment, …
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A secret code to the Hall of Justice, only the hall is the Ohio State facility and the heroes wear scarlet and gray—that’s the childhood doorway that sets this story in motion. We unpack Kirk Herbstreit’s memoir to explore how a life steeped in Buckeye lore can shape a dream, test an identity, and ultimately reveal a role you never knew you were built to play. If you’ve ever chased the picture-perfect ending and found a different …