Wallbuilders Live! With David Barton & Rick Green

A pastor jailed, newsrooms warned, and global power pressing in—when we sat down with Bill Federer, the story out of South Korea sounded less like headlines and more like a playbook. We walk through raids on churches, lawfare against dissent, and how technology vendors, rare earths, and diplomatic gaps create a pressure cooker most outlets won’t touch. The pattern will feel familiar: intimidate the press, criminalize opponents, and move fast before anyone can organize a response. That’s why we talk openly about leadership pipelines and why equipping young people and citizens with constitutional literacy and moral courage isn’t optional—it’s survival.From there, we pivot to a Columbus most people have never met. Not a caricature, but a navigator shaped by Marco Polo’s Travels, a misread of Arabic miles, and the closing of overland routes after 1453. Bill takes us from the Mongol court to a Genoese prison cell, from hurricanes that destroyed fleets to a slow gold ship that changed a reputation, from Arawak hosp