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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A Harvard professor made a prediction in the 1990s that sounded almost rude at the time: the Cold War didn’t end history, it just cleared the stage. Twenty five years after 9/11, we take that prediction seriously and ask what Samuel P. Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations gets right about identity, religion, and culture as forces that shape politics and war. We walk through Huntington’s core ideas in plain language: what a “civiliz...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Somebody flipped a switch and more than a hundred hours of work disappeared. That’s not a metaphor. Our Mojo Academy YouTube channel gets terminated with a single email citing “impersonation,” no warning, no specific video, and no clear explanation and it forces a blunt question: if a platform can erase your work instantly, what do you actually own? We walk through what the ban feels like, why the appeal process matters, and why t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A single moment at Abbey Gate still captures a whole era of American foreign policy: a Marine identifies a threat, asks for permission to act, and is told no until the danger disappears into the crowd. Hours later, the Kabul evacuation turns into a massacre that kills 13 American service members and scores of Afghan civilians. Five years on, we slow down and tell the story with the weight it deserves, because remembrance means more...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A 94-year-old cardinal walking into a Hong Kong courtroom might be the clearest sermon you’ll hear all week. Cardinal Joseph Zen sits beside Jimmy Lai’s wife as Lai, a 78-year-old Catholic and pro-democracy publisher, is sentenced to 20 years under Hong Kong’s national security law. Then a reporter asks Pope Leo XIV about Lai, and the answer is chilling in its restraint: “I cannot comment on that.” We sit with the contrast, because...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Ninety hours of World War II history sounds like a stunt until you realize what it does to your perspective. I just finished Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy on Audible, spread across six years, and I can’t stop thinking about what it means to “walk” from North Africa to Sicily, up the Italian campaign, and into the final push across Western Europe. This isn’t a cheerleading tour of victory. It’s a clear-eyed account of how the U...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Seventy percent is not a fringe. If you have ever swallowed your words while someone called basic common sense “radical,” this Liberty Minute is for you. We start with a blunt claim: you are being sold a fake 50-50 story, and it is designed to make you doubt what you already know is true. We walk through why we created the free Crazy vs. Common Sense newsletter on Substack and what it is actually for: giving you receipts before th...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message They told Richard Nixon his career was over. Then they told him again. He proved them wrong twice and, for a moment, he looked unstoppable. I walk through Nixon’s political exile after 1960 and 1962, then his return to win the presidency in 1968 and dominate in 1972. The point isn’t nostalgia or hero worship. It’s a hard look at how comebacks really happen when political elites rush to declare a leader finished, but the “lun...

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...