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Theory 2 Action Podcast

David Kaiser

586 episodes

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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soaked graft—to understand how power, patronage, and public appetite shaped what’s possible in City Hall. That backdrop sharpens the stakes of today’s race, where frontrunner Zoran Mandani pitch...

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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soaked graft—to understand how power, patronage, and public appetite shaped what’s possible in City Hall. That backdrop sharpens the stakes of today’s race, where frontrunner Zoran Mandani pitch...

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Theory 2 Action Podcast

MM#444--From Tammany Hall To Today: The Long Shadow Over New York’s Mayor’s Race

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soaked graft—to understand how power, patronage, and public appetite shaped what’s possible in City Hall. That backdrop sharpens the stakes of today’s race, where frontrunner Zoran Mandani pitch...

1 day ago

23 minutes

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MM#443--Christian Nationalism? No, Christian Patriotism!

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Debates over “Christian nationalism” are loud, confusing, and often heated. We cut through the noise by defining the term, tracing its historical footprints, and then asking a better question: what kind of political love do Christians owe their country? From Constantine’s Roman empire to Spain after the Reconquista to the paradoxes of American civic religion, we map how faith has shaped law, identity, and public symbols—and where t...

4 days ago

21 minutes

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America's Story- The Rise and Fall of the Fire-eaters

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Gaslight flickers over polished wood, a packed hall hums with dread and ambition, and a single voice promises safety through rupture. We take you inside Charleston’s Hibernian Hall in 1859, where Robert Barnwell Rhett—“the father of secession”—braids grievance, fear, and political theater into a call that helps set the country on a path to civil war. Guided by newspaper power, party fractures, and the myth of Southern chivalry, Rhe...

1 week ago

30 minutes

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MM#442--pt 3, The preamble to our debate in the House Dividing Series

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Politics feels hotter than ever, but the real danger is how quickly heated words become guiding rules. We unpack what a “cold civil war” looks like, why it resonates right now, and how the United States has navigated similar standoffs before. From the Nullification Crisis to federal enforcement of school integration, from Reconstruction’s contested peace to the open wounds of the Civil War, we draw a clear map of escalation—and a p...

2 weeks ago

18 minutes

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MM#442--The House Dividing, pt 3--The Debate

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The temperature of American politics keeps rising, and the comparisons to the 1850s are getting louder. We step into the heat with a focused debate: do today’s progressive radicals echo the antebellum fire eaters in their tactics, or is that a misleading frame that obscures fundamental moral differences? Our goal isn’t to chase outrage; it’s to test the claims with history, examples, and clear standards for what actually drives nat...

2 weeks ago

38 minutes

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MM#441--A House Dividing Again, pt 2---The Road to Disunion of 1860: The Fire Eaters and The Rhetoric of Ruin

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Words can move nations—and sometimes they move them off a cliff. We dive into the antebellum South to examine the Fire Eaters, the radical pro‑slavery leaders whose speeches, platforms, and media campaigns turned sectional tension into a secession movement. With William W. Freehling’s and Eric H. Walther’s research as our guide, we unpack how mainstream Democratic moderates once contained extremism, why that buffer failed, and how ...

2 weeks ago

30 minutes

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MM#440--A House Dividing, Again, part 1: A Cold Civil War

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A nation does not tumble into crisis overnight; it drifts, argues, hardens—and then stumbles. We open the pages of David Potter’s A House Dividing to read the 1850s not as distant history but as a mirror for today’s tensions. From the Compromise of 1850 to the Fugitive Slave Act, Potter shows how moral shocks can force ordinary citizens into a confrontation with their own values. That’s the thread we follow into 2025: when people f...

3 weeks ago

19 minutes

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MM#439--Watergate & Woodward Rewritten

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The Watergate story most of us learned feels cinematic: fearless reporters, shadowy parking garages, and a presidency brought to heel by truth-tellers. We take a different path—back through court records, publishing timelines, and the motives of the people who leaked—so we can separate what happened from what we were sold. Drawing on Jeff Shepard’s deep archival work, along with Max Holland’s and Jim Hougan’s challenges to the cano...

3 weeks ago

27 minutes

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MM#438--Fifty Years After Watergate: Crime, Lawfare, and the Battle for Due Process

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Forget the tidy Watergate script. We dive into a sharp, good‑faith debate that tests whether Nixon’s fall was inevitable because of crimes and a collapsing cover‑up—or whether a biased legal apparatus and quiet coordination with the bench turned a scandal into a manufactured constitutional crisis. We walk step by step through the break‑in, the inner‑circle misconduct, and the public narrative that took hold, then hold it up against...

1 month ago

31 minutes

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MM#437--Inside the Crumbling January 6 Narrative & The Comey Indictment

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The story we were handed about January 6 sounded complete—until the paperwork started talking. We unpack a newly surfaced FBI after-action report, why it arrived on Capitol Hill years late, and what rank-and-file agents say about a lopsided response compared with the 2020 summer riots. Along the way, we examine the operational oddities—274 plain-clothes agents deployed with firearms for “crowd control” after violence began—and ask ...

1 month ago

25 minutes

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MM#436--Reason and Revelation = Become a life long learner

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What does it take to create a truly flourishing life in today's distraction-filled world? Charlie Kirk's powerful challenge to read 50 books yearly and eliminate "soul-depraving" content offers a compelling answer that few of us want to hear but all of us need to consider. This episode explores the twin pillars of reason and revelation that built Western civilization—from the monotheistic foundations of Judaism through the rationa...

1 month ago

11 minutes

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MM#435--Erika Kirk's Divine Act of Grace: Forgiving the Unforgivable

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The stunning power of forgiveness takes center stage as we explore three extraordinary stories that changed the course of history. Through vivid storytelling, we journey back to other pivotal moments of forgiveness that transformed our world. We revisit Pope John Paul II's extraordinary meeting with his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca in 1983, where the Pope offered forgiveness to the very man who nearly took his life. The...

1 month ago

39 minutes

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MM#434--The Radical Threat: How Antifa's Violence Undermines American Democracy

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Former President Donald Trump's recent designation of Antifa as a "major terrorist organization" has sent shockwaves through political circles. Speaking from Truth Social during his UK visit, Trump announced plans to investigate Antifa's funding sources—a move that coincides with disturbing revelations about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. Investigators have discovered Antifa-related engravings on the s...

1 month ago

20 minutes

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LM#67--The Battle Cry of a Widow Echoes Across a Nation in Crisis

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Three devastating weeks of violence have left America reeling. From the senseless murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train to the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis to the shocking assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, our nation stands at a crossroads where political division, mental illness, and spiritual decay threaten to tear apart the fabric of society...

1 month ago

31 minutes

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MM#433--The Forgotten Toll: Civilian Deaths in WWII

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The staggering scale of World War II's devastation remains difficult to comprehend even decades later. In just six years and one day, humanity's deadliest conflict claimed between 60-65 million lives—roughly 3% of the world's 1939 population and more deaths than occurred in three centuries of warfare combined. Drawing from Victor Davis Hanson's masterful "The Second World Wars," this episode explores the uncomfortable truth that m...

1 month ago

24 minutes

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MM#432--From Blitzkrieg to Defeat: How Nazi Germany Lost World War II

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Germany's defeat in World War II wasn't merely a matter of battlefield losses but rather a predictable outcome rooted in fundamental strategic, economic, and leadership failures. Drawing from Victor Davis Hanson's masterful analysis in "The Second World Wars," this episode reveals the three decisive factors that sealed Nazi Germany's fate from the beginning. The first fatal flaw was Germany's profound economic weakness. Despite cr...

1 month ago

24 minutes

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CC#43--What Tertullian Knew: Modern Martyrdom in Minneapolis

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The wisdom of Tertullian echoes through centuries: "The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church." These words, penned around 200 AD, have found tragic relevance in our modern world where Christian persecution continues unabated. Startling statistics reveal a disturbing reality—over half of the estimated 70 million Christians martyred throughout history lost their lives in the 20th century alone. And the 21st century shows no si...

2 months ago

10 minutes

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MM#431: The Fatal Miscalculation: How Japan Lost WWII

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What catastrophic miscalculations led to Japan's defeat in World War II? This episode dives deep into the strategic blunders, economic impossibilities, and cultural misunderstandings that sealed Japan's fate long before the atomic bombs fell. Drawing on historian Victor Davis Hanson's meticulous research from his book "The Second World Wars", we explore how Japan's military planners fundamentally misunderstood American resolve and...

2 months ago

24 minutes

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MM#430--The Good & Flourishing Life

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Have you ever considered that your happiness might be something you can learn rather than simply experience? This eye-opening exploration of Martin Seligman's work reveals one of psychology's most transformative findings: individuals can choose how they think. We dive deep into the remarkable shift in psychological thinking that occurred in the late 1960s—moving from environmental determinism to individual choice and control. As t...

2 months ago

12 minutes

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MM#429--80 Years Later...The Hard Truths of 1945: How the Atomic Bombs Prevented Greater Tragedy

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The darkest moments of history often involve impossible choices between terrible options. Such was the case in August 1945, when President Harry Truman authorized the use of atomic weapons to end World War II. In this compelling episode, we examine Richard B. Frank's definitive account "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire" to understand why those bombs, despite their horrific toll, likely saved millions of lives. Wha...

2 months ago

29 minutes