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The post The Unitary Executive: Scalia’s Dissent, Morrison v. Olson (1988), Part 5 with Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Confessions of a Republican Professor with Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. and Jon Schober 30 Dec 2020 FB appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Ethics of AI in Education, Law and Politics, Preliminary Issues with Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Biblical Themes in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address 4 March 1865 — The First Republican President appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Current Affairs Special: Dr. Michael M. Uhlmann, LLB, PhD on Congress and the Welfare State appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post The FBI Violation of Fourth Amendment Civil Liberties Under the Guise of Administrative Law: The Case of Snitko v. United States (2024) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Christianity as Ethnicity Part 2 and First Amendment Free Exercise: the Case of Jessica Tapia and Prop 3 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Is Hunter Biden Above the Law ? A Brief Comment on the Pardon Power and the Nature of Law and Politics appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Pride and the Bible with Psychologist Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D., former president of Denver Seminary appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Mr. James A. Mather, Mr. Steak Inc Founder and Chairman of the Board, World War 2 Navy Fighter Pilot appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Tender Mercies (Psalm 51:1ff) Post-End of Election Week Message From TRP Bunker appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Prayer Walk Through an “Inessential” Lockdown Church — Thursday 19 March 2020 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post What I Saw In LA Today — 13 March 2020 on FB LIVE appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Why the CDC Mask Mandate Was Ruled Arbitrary & Capricious Under the APA 5 USC §706 by a Trump Judge appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post What America Is, Spirit Over California, Republicans v. Democrats on Civil Rights, Southern Strategy appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post “God, Guns and America” by Mike Austin Book Review, Part 2 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Dr. Paul Kengor, Ph.D. on Megan Basham’s Book “Shepherds for Sale” in Claremont Review of Books Summer of 2024 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post “The Socialist Threat” by the late MSgt. Dr. John W. Boswell, Ph.D. with Dr. Kent Duncan, FB LIVE 7 March 2021 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post CDC Mask Mandate v. Trump, Part 2: Deep Dive into Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Biden, April 2022 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post “God, Guns and America” Book Review, Comments on Christian Democrats, FB LIVE 17 March 2021 w Kurtis appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Remember Why A Trump-Appointed, Republican Senate-Confirmed Judge Struck Down the CDC’s Mask Mandate appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post The Citizen’s Amendment by the late Msgt. Dr. John W. Boswell, Ph.D. on FB LIVE 1 March 2021 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post South Central LA Phone Convo on Paper Ballots and Term Limits: FB LIVE with Wasabi, Kurtis 24 June 2021 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post When Kamala Harris was a Defendant in California She Violated Civil Rights, According to a Democrat Judge appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post MSgt Dr. John W. Boswell, Ph.D.’s (Army 1 SFOD Delta) “Essay 2 Understanding Consolidation” LIVE w/ Kurtis 12 Feb 2021 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Whataboutism w/ Prof. Adam Stowell, California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona, CA LIVE 31 Jan 2021 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post MSgt Dr. John W. Boswell, Ph.D.’s (US Army 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment, Delta, Ret.) “Mostly Peaceful” LIVE w/ Kurtis Olson 5 Feb 2021 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post Part 2 of California’s 10-Day Waiting Period and the Second Amendment with Senior District Court Judge Anthony Ishii (Central Calif) presented by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., TRP appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post California’s 10-Day Waiting Period and the Second Amendment with Senior District Court Judge Anthony Ishii (Clinton Appointee) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Hatred and the Normative Christian Tradition with Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D. Psychology, Freud Scholar appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Anger, Hatred and the Bible w/ Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D., author: Emotional Problems and the Gospel appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Explication and Critique of Communist Ideological Eschatology with Prof. Helmut Thielicke, D.Theol., University of Hamburg appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Easter and Individual Liberty w/ Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Professor of History, The Sorbonne (Paris) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Butterfly Knives, Billy Clubs and Guns on the Beach in Hawai’i with Alan Beck, JD, RTKBA 2a Attorney appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Excursus on What is Left? What is Right? A Study of Political Extremism w/ W. Cleon Skousen, LL.B./FBI/BYU appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post The Totalitarian State: National Socialism and Communism w/ Helmut Thielicke, University of Hamburg in Germany appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Theological Reflection on the Divine Mandate of the State with Helmut Thielicke, University of Hamburg appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Theological Reflection on the “Authority” of Government with Helmut Thielicke, University of Hamburg appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Sensitive Places versus the Right to Bear Arms with Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, US District Court (Florida) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Religious Liberty Versus a Vaccine Mandate w/ Judge James Ho, 5th Circuit: The Case of Brett Horvath (Jan. 2020) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post “Assault Rifles” and the Second Amendment w/ the Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, former D.C. Circuit Court Judge appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Police Power v. Individual Liberty w/ the Hon. Rufus Peckham, Former Assoc. Justice, U.S. Supreme Court appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Scrutiny-land and the Second Amendment w/ Judge Laurence VanDyke, 9th Circuit Appeals Court (US) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Public Health and the Constitution w/ the Hon. Laurence VanDyke, 9th Circuit Appeals Court (US) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post COVID, California, and the Constitution w/ the Hon. Laurence VanDyke, 9th Circuit Appeals Court (US) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Part 4: Magazine Capacity and the 2nd Amendment w/ the Hon. Roger T. Benitez, US District Court, So. Cal. appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Part 3: Magazine Capacity and the Second Amendment w/ the Hon. Roger T. Benitez, U.S. District Court, So. Cal. appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post 11+ Round Magazines and the 2nd Amendment w/ the Hon. Roger T. Benitez, US District Court (S.D., CA) Part 1 appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post The Bible and Anxiety, Part 4 with Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D., author of “Emotional Problems and the Gospel,” Former President of Denver Seminary appeared first on The Republican Professor.
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The post The Bible and Anxiety w/ Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D., Former President of Denver Seminary appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Medicine, Liberty, & K-12 Calif. Public Education w/ Dr. Jeff Barke, M.D., Instagram’s @RxForLiberty appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post Remembering Hawai’i State Senator (R, 1996–2016, East Honolulu) Sam Slom w/ Second Amendment Foundation Founder Alan Gottlieb (TRP Ep. 144) appeared first on The Republican Professor.
The post The Virtue of Prudence in U.S. Foreign Policy: Lessons for Today w/ Dr. Robert G. Kaufman, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M. appeared first on The Republican Professor.
"No one talks to us like this," the young men on campus say to Dr. Anthony Bradley, Ph.D., long time professor of Religious Studies at Kings College in Manhattan, NYC, & now Distinguished Research Fellow at Acton Institute. https://www.acton.org/about/staff/anthony-b-bradley
In Part 1, he talks about the loss to New York City of all of its Christian colleges, including Kings College, and begins to talk about his process for writing his books, including being motivated by anger.
In Part 2, Dr. Bradley talks about being motivated by anger as a Christian scholar, that young men are hungry for models of virtue, and the basis for his hope for the future.
We had a few technical difficulties, which we overcame with Dr. Bradley's quite remarkable patience and kindness.
Part 2 picks up the speed with the rest of the interview where we cover the struggles that men have in today's American culture, the basis for his hope for change, what makes him the most angry, and how he goes about his work, and a bit about his family life.
He's written such scholarly books as "Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Hope from Civil Society" (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
His latest we discuss at length is called : "Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America" (Wipf & Stock, 2023).
The Republican Professor is a pro-rightly-using-anger, pro-inculcating-virtue-in-men, pro-saving-America podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Anthony Bradley, Ph.D.
The Republican Professor (TRP) Podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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"No one talks to us like this," the young men on campus say to Dr. Anthony Bradley, Ph.D., long time professor of Religious Studies at Kings College in Manhattan, NYC, & now Distinguished Research Fellow at Acton Institute. https://www.acton.org/about/staff/anthony-b-bradley
In this interview, he talks about the loss to New York City of all of its Christian colleges, including Kings College, and begins to talk about his process for writing his books, including being motivated by anger.
We had a few technical difficulties, which we overcame with Dr. Bradley's quite remarkable patience and kindness. Part 2 picks up the speed with the rest of the interview where we cover the struggles that men have in today's American culture, the basis for his hope for change, what makes him the most angry, and how he goes about his work, and a bit about his family life.
He's written such scholarly books as "Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Hope from Civil Society" (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
His latest we discuss at length is called : "Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America" (Wipf & Stock, 2023).
The Republican Professor is a pro-rightly-using-anger, pro-inculcating-virtue-in-men, pro-saving-America podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Anthony Bradley, Ph.D. The Republican Professor (TRP) Podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. To financially support this work, comment on today's episode, or to make a suggestion for a topic or guest for the podcast or Substack newsletter, send an email to therepublicanprofessor@substack.com . We'd love to hear from you. Thanks for subscribing. Warmly, Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack
In this episode, professor Mather shares the story of when he only had one student , and what he learned about Higher Education from the experience.
The Reason Magazine Facebook post referenced in the opening is here .
The Republican Professor podcast is a pro-teaching-your-heart-out podcast.
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Should there be age limits on candidates for election ?
We say no, and here's why.
This is the second "office hours" chat with fellow liberty-lover @ChartingLiberty's Dale Fincher.
The Republican Professor is a pro-rightly-contemplating-Representation-in-Elections podcast.
Welcome, Mr. Dale Fincher of @ChartingLiberty !
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She's had access to such luminaries as President Bill Clinton and the Washington Post's Kay Graham for her biographies of them, but her very first book was on the woman that seemed to split the country in half, Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly is most notorious (or famous, depending) for nearly single-handedly stopping the Equal Rights Amendment from most certainly being ratified in my lifetime. How she did that -- and the fact that it is probably only her that could have done something like that -- is an issue in American Politics not many understand. Though it seems you have to at some point grapple with it.
But Schlafly was sui generis in every rich nuance of the term. She was more comfortable debating detente with the Soviets and nuclear throw weights. She had a lot of kids, was a serious Catholic, and went to Law School in her fifties. She homeschooled all of her children up to a certain age, taught them all how to read herself, wrote books that were self-published and sold millions of copies, spoke all around the country, sometimes multiple times in one day, traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, and yet answered her own telephone.
One could make the argument that she was the most important woman in American Politics in the latter half of the twentieth century -- perhaps the entire twentieth century.
Is this real ? Her critics thought she was a phony. And she had millions of critics.
My recent thoughts about this topic began in Scottsdale , Arizona, in 2023 at a used bookstore. In the section called "Conservativism," I found a copy of Carol Felsenthal's 1981 Doubleday biography of Schlafly . The book is called "The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schalfly" by Carol Felsenthal. It began with a story that Schlafly gave her biographer the cold shoulder because of something very critical that Felsenthal had written about Schlafly years prior. Yet this copy had of all things Phyllis Schlafly's signature on it, inscribed for a couple , with best wishes.
Now Schalfly had not signed most of the books she herself had written -- copies in the many, many millions. To think that she had signed this one written by someone whom she herself had dissed at some point for being highly critical. This, I had to see.
So I reached out to Carol while reading it, and made the offer that she could easily refuse.
But she didn't. And we ended up talking for 2 hours about Phyllis Schlafly and Carol's life as a biographer and a writer.
Here's an example of the writing she has done for Chicago Magazine, a quite moving piece she did about her brother, an obituary of sorts, the man who had done the title sequences for such famous films as Superman (1978), Alien (1979), and The Untouchables (1987), who had recently died : https://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/June-2018/On-the-Life-and-Death-of-My-Brother-Dickie/
The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-correctly-Phyllis Schlafly podcast.
Therefore, welcome, Mrs. Carol Felsenthal, 1981 Doubleday biographer of Phyllis Schlafly.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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The author of the most thorough, clear, interesting and persuasive academic textbook on Constitutional Law of the Second Amendment is today's guest. That book is "America's Rifle: The Case for the AR-15" and the scholar's name is Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D.
Get it today and buy a copy for a friend or family member. Share this book, and read it carefully yourself -- you will not regret it for a second.
Guest co-hosting this episode today is Instagram's @highcalibernc , Heather Allen, a firearms educator and concealed carry instructor, and candidate for city council in North Carolina.
For a brief review of the book and a link to buy it, see TRP Substack's write up at https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/p/the-best-second-amendment-academic
The Republican Professor is a pro-rightly-contemplating-the-Constitution, pro-correct-understanding-of-the-Second-Amendment, pro-taking-productive-action-to-defend-liberty podcast.
Therefore, welcome Constitutional legal scholar and attorney Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D. & conceal carry instructor @highcalibernc, Heather Allen of North Carolina.
Please subscribe here and at TRP Substack. It helps us cobble together the resources necessary to continue in this vitally important work.
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Dr. Jonathan Fuqua, Ph.D. teaches full time with Benedictine monks in Missouri, but before that he was a jock, played football, and majored in PE as an undergraduate. He has five kids and has been married for 20 years. And he sensed a calling to do a Ph.D. dissertation in Philosophy at Purdue University on Common Sense Epistemology. He is an expert, a legit expert, in the philosophy of Common Sense. And yes , there is such a thing to be an expert in, and he's one of them.
He's publishing a co-authored academic paper on the rationality and morality of Trump voters (2016, 2020) where he argues that the demonization of Trump voters is not properly based in justification, evidence, knowledge or common sense morality.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Common-Sense-Morality, pro-Common-Sense-Epistemology podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Jonathan Fuqua, Ph.D., colleague of Benedictine monks and expert in the Common Sense philosophical tradition.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Please subscribe here and at TRP Substack, linked below.
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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It's wonderful to listen to Mr. Jeffrey Tucker opine on anything, and here he does in some detail on what he thinks of RFK, Jr. and anything related to the recent public health panic and civil and economic liberties.
Mr. Jeffrey Tucker writes for the Epoch Times and is founder of Brownstone Institute, and joins us to talk about what we like and don't like about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s run for 2024 President of the United States. I have some serious concerns about him, but Jeffrey is a fan.
There's very helpful writing featured at Jeffrey's website. Check out Brownstone Institute here: https://brownstone.org/ and subscribe to The Epoch Times to read Jeffrey's regular writing there on economic issues and civil liberty.
Guest co-hosting this episode is Jonalyn Fincher Art Studio out of Exeter, New Hamsphire, who has been featured on local TV for her current watercolor exhibit on Masks & Lockdowns -- art as a way to deal with the trauma of the public health panic in recent years. You can see the TV interview here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l3KegrbUEWbq7tMgZV1_3cfe4crk6k8T/view?pli=1
The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-clear-about-civil-liberties, anti-censorship podcast.
Therefore, welcome again Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone Institute and co-host Mrs. Jonalyn Fincher Art Studio of Exeter, New Hampshire.
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/articles/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRepublicanProfessor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRepublicanProfessor Twitter: @RepublicanProf Instagram: @the_republican_professor
Office hours are shorter segments where an idea is unpacked and tested.
This one is postmodernism and Marxism with @ChartingLiberty's Dale Fincher. First in a series called "Office Hours"
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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/articles/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRepublicanProfessor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRepublicanProfessor Twitter: @RepublicanProf Instagram: @the_republican_professor
After retiring as a former Navy enlisted LCDR and former police officer in Honolulu and San Diego, Mr. Chris Tighe became an entrepreneur. He owns and operates Elevation Construction.
Elevation Construction is a service disabled veteran owned business headquartered in Houston, Texas with an office in Tacoma, Washington. Elevation Washington specializes in apartment complex renovations while Elevation Houston specializes in kitchen/bathroom remodels, new additions, and new construction.
Mr. Tighe's company website is https://www.elevationconstructionteam.com/ Find him on Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/elevationconstructionteam/
The Republican Professor is a pro-Navy, pro-entrepreneur-mindset podcast.
Therefore, welcome my shipmate Chris Tighe
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/articles/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRepublicanProfessor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRepublicanProfessor Twitter: @RepublicanProf Instagram: @the_republican_professor
Our guest today is Matias Perttula, author of a recent piece on Religious Liberty and International Relations for the America First Policy Institute, a non-profit educational organization.
The piece is called "ISSUE BRIEF: Religious Freedom Challenges Transcend the International and Domestic Divide" available here : https://americafirstpolicy.com/latest/issue-brief-religious-freedom-challenges-transcend-the-international-and-domestic-divide
It discusses the issue of religious liberty both here and abroad.
The bilingual (Finnish and English) Mr. Pertula was born in Australia but grew up in Finland before coming to Lost Angeles. At the college level he studied Political Philosophy and Symbolic Logic at Moorpark College (as a student of the TRP host) in Southern California before transferring to UCLA for his bachelors. He later finished an MBA at Southeastern, working in higher education before transitioning into international politics at Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. for several years.
Matias is now the Director of the Center for American Values at America First Policy Institute.
The Republican Professor is a pro-religious-liberty-properly-understood podcast.
Therefore, welcome Mr. Matias Perttula !
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack
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For many years he was @VoiceoftheSecond on Instagram, writing about the queen of the liberties, as it were : The Second Amendment. TRP Podcast hosted him twice last year on the topic of spiritual abuse and gun control.
Mr. Dale Fincher, in preparation for going to sea with his family next year, has begun @ChartingLiberty. This is the first part of our first conversation. We talk about taxes and Jesus and rendering unto Ceasar and all sorts of stuff like that.
This is the first in a new weekly series.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Charting-Liberty podcast.
Therefore, welcome author, speaker Mr. Dale Fincher.
The Republican Professor (TRP) is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Subscribe here and on the substack for more information,
TRP is also on Rumble and Vimeo backing up things YouBoob claims are , and I quote, reminiscent of the first minute of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, "egregious harm."
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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For many years he was @VoiceoftheSecond on Instagram, writing about the queen of the liberties, as it were : The Second Amendment. TRP Podcast hosted him twice last year on the topic of spiritual abuse and gun control.
Mr. Dale Fincher, in preparation for going to sea with his family next year, has begun @ChartingLiberty. This is the first part of our first conversation. We talk about taxes and Jesus and rendering unto Ceasar and all sorts of stuff like that.
This is the first in a new weekly series.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Charting-Liberty podcast.
Therefore, welcome author, speaker Mr. Dale Fincher.
The Republican Professor (TRP) is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Subscribe here and on the substack for more information,
TRP is also on Rumble and Vimeo backing up things YouBoob claims are , and I quote, reminiscent of the first minute of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, "egregious harm."
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Mr. Phil Little is not the first guest on TRP Podcast who's been shot at by terrorists, but it's a fairly small group of guests that "enjoy" that distinction. Our guest today is the long-time chief of West Coast Detectives, originally an LA-based private investigative and counter-terrorism agency with offices in several foreign countries that is several decades old.
Mr. Little was a special guest speaker in Dr. Mather's Pepperdine University School of Business course "Business Ethics and Public Policy", Fall 2009 in Malibu, California. He's also the father of one of Dr. Mather's Logic-in-Practice students at Pierce College (Woodland Hills in the Valley, LA) in Fall 2009.
Mr. Little is the author of "Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself From Terrorism," about his life as an investigator and head of a growing, private intelligence gathering firm working with public entities on counter-terrorism since the 1970s.
Enjoy !
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Jonalyn Fincher is a New England-based painter who has taken on the challenge of commenting on Covid-19 and the response to it as a way to process grief and trauma. Jonalyn invites dialogue as a part of the exhibit for her Exeter, New Hampshire Community.
She uses carefully thought-out , expertly crafted watercolor to prompt reflection, healing, and dialogue. She’s aiming for a deeper community solidarity than existed prior to the lock-downs and mask mandates.
Jonalyn is a gentle soul attentive to the power of beauty to bring healing and community out of trauma and destruction.
Check her out at her website, https://jonalynfincher.com/ or on Instagram at @Jonalyn_Fincher and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JonalynFincherArtStudio .
The free show starts in July so if you’re in or near Exeter, New Hampshire, take a look in person. No matter what your experience , you’re welcome there for dialogue.
Warmly,
Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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This is Part 4 of The Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics.
Dr. Mather presents parts from his paper "Two Types of Marriage Equality: A Normative Analysis of Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)".
It takes a look at Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and Reynolds v. United States (1879). Specifically, Dr. Mather provides a theoretical framework by which to understand the essence of Obergefell, including a distillation of the legal rule the Court relied on but never explicitly stated: what Dr. Mather calls "the contemporary 'marriage' equality assumption": The Essence of Marriage must become malleable to allow for the expression of minority sexual orientations within marriage.
At the time of the decision, according to friend of the Court briefs, Bisexuality is a minority sexual orientation. Homosexuality is a minority sexual orientation. Therefore, according to this legal rule, both must be expressible in a marriage definition, and any necessary condition of marriage from classical marriage equality must give way.
Prior to this set of cases leading up to Obergefell, marriage was like the Rock of Gibraltar, unchanging in its essence, and against it, the waves of sexual orientation were dashed. That essence was protected and recognized in law for millenia as a natural-law relationship, accorded respect in the Common Law and before, a special, univocal, coherent, sui generis definition of a type of relationship that not everyone was interested in or wanted to participate in: A union between a man and a woman, typically recognized by Law, by which a they become husband and wife for life. That concept matured into seven necessary conditions (discussed here), what Dr. Mather calls the necessary essence of Classical Marriage Equality.
But no one was punished for not being married.
Marriage took on a famous status recognized in the Goodrich Court (Massachusetts, 2003), as we saw in prior episodes, as "a vital social institution." And not by accident. Not arbitrarily. (How could something so vital be at the same time arbitrary ? The Goodrich Court (and Obergefell) never seemed to see that question was posable but not answerable by their analyses.)
But some wanted the fame associated with the mere spelling and were willing to shank the lexical essence to get that spelling to apply to something they were interested in. The secondary definition of the same spelling, what Dr. Mather calls M2, "any close union," is in very old dictionaries right along side what he calls M1 (classical marriage equality), has now replaced M1 in law across the nation in Obergefell. That's because the Court invented, and then used the legal rule, what Dr. Mather calls "the contemporary marriage (M2, not M1, equivocating on the spelling "marriage", begging the question against M1) assumption." Now the Rock of Gibraltar isn't marriage, the concept or the mere spelling of the syllables. The Rock of Gibraltar, according to Goodrich through Obergefell, is Sexual Orientation, and upon that Rock, the definition of marriage is dashed.
The Republican Professor is a pro-True-Marriage-Equality podcast.
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It's been one year since Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and so alternatives to abortion, such as adoption, is on our minds here at The Republican Professor podcast.
Today's special guest is Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children Services in Alabama. He has seen young women in blue states, not just red states, reach out for support in choosing continued Life for their unborn children. It's a great time to reflect on the importance of the support young, vulnerable families face now that abortion has become, thankfully, unthinkable for so many.
We discuss the importance and historical, classically understood design of the family and how we can best match that in the United States when vulnerable young women are faced with the tremendous stress and challenge of seeking care for her unexpected, precious child.
Mr. Newell takes us through some of the options available through his organization, including other options as well by comparison, for any families that sense the call for care and concern for children in need.
Check out https://lifelinechild.org/ for more information, or
@LifelineChild on Twitter https://twitter.com/LifelineChild , Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lifelinechild , and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifelinechild/
The Republican Professor is a pro-life, pro-Roe-reconciliation, pro-healthy-family podcast
Therefore, welcome Herbie Newell, President of Lifeline Children Services, Birmingham, Alabama
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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This is Part 3 of a multipart series on The Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics, Dr. Lucas J. Mather takes us through criteria for evaluating arguments by analogy in Iriving Copi's Introduction to Logic, 10th ed., chapter 13.
We look at the analogy between between inventing a new definition of marriage under the guise of progress and desegregating marriage .
The Republican Professor is a pro-defining-marriage-correctly, pro-analogies, pro-comparing-things, anti-alethophobia podcast.
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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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This is part 2 of the series on The Definition of Marriage in Public Law & American Politics.
Dr. Mather provides introductory instruction on the concept of a logical fallacy. Professor Mather then focuses on specific instruction in 3 informal logical fallacies from Irving Copi's 10th Edition of Introduction to Logic:
1) Ad Hominem, Abusive 2) Begging the Question 3) Equivocation
He provides a brief introduction on their relevance to the legal materials (e.g., judicial opinions) in the definition of marriage in public law and American politics.
The Republican Professor is a pro-nailing the Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics podcast.
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In this first episode of a multi-part series, Professor Mather introduces us to the nature of definitions as he covers it in Introductory Logic courses, and their theoretical and practical relevance to the legal materials in the so-called "marriage equality" debate in American Law and Politics.
Dr. Mather takes us through several dictionary definitions of marriage, and through Irving Copi's "Introduction to Logic" section on criteria for lexical definitions, covering some technical terminology. He also answers some preliminary objections students and faculty have had to his covering this material at all in any depth, detail, or rigor . Throughout, Dr. Mather cites his sources and illustrates how students can follow along in the legal materials as they seek to find their own well-thought-out positions on the matters related to this topic of The Definition of Marriage in American Law and Politics.
Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. is producer and host of The Republican Professor Podcast. Dr. Mather has designed and taught 188 college and university courses as a professor from Malibu to Gangland, USA over nearly 20 years, a huge portion of which have been Logic courses applied to public policy and Constitutional Law. He holds 7 earned degrees, including 4 masters degrees in disciplines as diverse as Chinese Mandarin to Bio-Medical Ethics, culminating in a Ph.D. in Public Law & American Politics from The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California.
Before he spent 6 years in seminary, he served in the United States Navy for seven years as a Naval Aircrewman, Linguist, Analyst, Special Operations intel operator, and later support staff for foreign language education and training for the National Security Agency.
He serves on staff at his local church in Orange County, California.
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This blue collar worker has a Ph.D. His name is Dr. John Ferrer, Ph.D., and he studied Logic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Church History, Theology, Advanced Apologetics and some of the highest levels of academic Philosophy. He has an M.Div. under the Apologetics giant Dr. Norm Geisler (Ph.D., Philosophy, Loyola Chicago). He has advanced work as well in a Th.M. and Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. (All my exes live in Arkansas, one state over). The Republican Professor is a pro-Ph.D., pro-blue-collar , pro-Apologetics podcast. Therefore, welcome Dr. John Ferrer, Ph.D., blue collar extraordinaire. The Republican Professor Podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., who is also blue collar. If you liked this episode, subscribe and share with a friend. Warmly, Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. The Republican Professor PodcastThe Republican Professor Newsletter on Substackhttps://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/articles/YouTube channel: The Republican ProfessorFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRepublicanProfessorTwitter: @RepublicanProfInstagram: @the_republican_professor
Heather Allen is a Second Amendment activist and female firearms instructor originally from Orange County, California. She recently relocated to North Carolina.
Heather hosts a function called "Sips and the Second" which is geared toward firearms training outside of the range with a cup of coffee or tea with ladies and a firearm or fake firearm. They sit around a table and learn about the purpose and function of the weapon in a safe, emotionally supportive environment.
I really enjoyed my time with Heather Allen and you can follow her on Instagram @highcaliberoc .
The Republican Professor is a pro-reaching-ladies-with-firearm-training, pro-safe-effective-and-thoughtful-Second-Amendment-activism podcast.
Therefore, welcome North Carolina's Heather Allen !
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Strap in.
For Thanksgiving 2022 we are joined today by Dr. Daniel Dreisbach, JD, D.Phil. (Oxford, Rhodes Scholar), author of Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers published by Oxford University Press.
Dr. Dreisbach is professor of law and politics at American University in Washington, D.C. His law degree is from the University of Virginia. His book started out as a Sunday School class at his church over 20 years ago.
This book and this episode will blow you away.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Biblical-literacy, pro-American-Founding-literacy podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Daniel Dreisbach !
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Dr. Douglas Groothuis is Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary, where he has taught full time since 1993, when Dr. Gordon R. Lewis, Ph.D., Senior Professor of Christian Philosophy and Systematic Philosophy, retired. Dr. Lewis had been my high school mentor and later, my professor of Logic, History of Philosophy (Ancient and Medieval), as well as Method in Apologetic Reasoning. I also had Doug Groothuis as a professor. He taught me Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophical Ethics.
Dr. Groothuis is the author of many books. His most recent is an object of conversation here. It's called "Fire in the Streets: How You Can Confidently Respond to Culturally Incendiary Topics," and you can find it at your local book dealer or on Amazon .
The book is an ambitious attempt to equip readers to understand the times of recent events and gain a sturdy footing in conversation with those who may have radically different understandings of these events.
Dr. Groothuis is an enormously valuable resource and I hope that you give him some time.
The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-the-times, pro-growing-in-confidence-on-incendiary-cultural-topics podcast.
Therefore, welcome my former philosophy professor at Denver Seminary, Dr. Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., author of "Fire in the Streets" !
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We are joined by Dr. Chad Bogosian, Ph.D., a California Community College Professor. We discuss character development, virtue, and moral knowledge.
The Republican Professor is a pro-moral-knowledge, pro-Community-College-teaching, pro-character-development-and virtue podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Chad Bogosian, Ph.D. !
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I enjoyed my conversation with LCDR John Doyle, USN (ret.), at the time of the recording, a Defense Intelligence Agency contractor.
John and I deployed together back in the day and served in some of the same classified units. He was awarded the Air Medal for operations in the War on Terror and many other awards and citations. He started out his Navy career as an enlisted man, studying Chinese Mandarin language and culture (official Beijing accent Mandarin) 10 to 12 hours a day, going through all the training required for that .
Late in his career he developed a little bit of a speech impediment during his active service. Yet the impediment is not an indication of a lack of mental sharpness. I knew him before new speech cadence that he has now and to me he seems just as sharp as he was back then. It was good to reconnect.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Veteran's-Day, pro-Navy podcast. Therefore, welcome Lt. Commander John Doyle, qualified in multiple warfare platforms, Air Medal awardee, United States Navy, retired.
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I really enjoyed my wide-ranging discussion with Republican State House Candidate Savvy Wolfson, who is running for the state legislature from a rural, mountainous district there in my home state of Colorado.
Savvy is the real deal. She's puts her feet to work knocking on doors and puts her phone to her own ears. She has her own views but puts a high priority on listening to her district.
The Republican Professor is a pro-everyday-person-State-House-candidate, pro-having-your-views-but-listening-well podcast.
Therefore, welcome Colorado's Savvy Wolfson !
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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This is the third of three parts with David Frankel, (JD, NYU School of Law), survivor of a public mass-shooting, or public set of several murders and attempted murders in his office building in San Fransisco in the summer of 1993.
David was a gun control advocate at the time. In fact, many of the attorneys who survived processed the horrific event solely and exclusively through the gun-control lens, founding a gun-control advocacy group that became something well known in gun control circles now.
After the event, David experienced a slow political transformation about the meaning of the event. He describes his conversion from pro-gun control advocate to Second Amendment advocate in his short, substantive book, "Coming to Terms: A Mass Shooting Survivor's Story."
The book is available on Amazon.
The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms-with-vulnernability, pro-coming-to-terms-with-personal-responsibility, pro-Second-Amendment, pro-Constitutional-Law-rightly-understood, pro-lawful-self-defense podcast.
Therefore, welcome Mr. David Frankel (JD, NYU Law School), author of Coming to Terms.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Dr. Mather teaches Constitutional Law and American Politics at Azusa Pacific in Lost Angeles County, California.
This is the second of three parts with David Frankel, (JD, NYU School of Law), survivor of a public mass-shooting, or public set of several murders and attempted murders in his office building in San Fransisco in the summer of 1993.
David was a gun control advocate at the time. In fact, many of the attorneys who survived processed the horrific event solely and exclusively through the gun-control lens, founding a gun-control advocacy group that became something well known in gun control circles now.
After the event, David experienced a slow political transformation about the meaning of the event. He describes his conversion from pro-gun control advocate to Second Amendment advocate in his short, substantive book, "Coming to Terms: A Mass Shooting Survivor's Story."
The book is available on Amazon.
The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms-with-vulnernability, pro-coming-to-terms-with-personal-responsibility, pro-Second-Amendment, pro-Constitutional-Law-rightly-understood, pro-lawful-self-defense podcast.
Therefore, welcome Mr. David Frankel (JD, NYU Law School), author of Coming to Terms.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Dr. Mather teaches Constitutional Law and American Politics at Azusa Pacific in Lost Angeles County, California.
This is the first of three parts with David Frankel, (JD, NYU School of Law), survivor of a public mass-shooting, or public set of several murders and attempted murders in his office building in San Fransisco in the summer of 1993.
David was a gun control advocate at the time. In fact, many of the attorneys who survived processed the horrific event solely and exclusively through the gun-control lens, founding a gun-control advocacy group that became something well known in gun control circles now.
After the event, David experienced a slow political transformation about the meaning of the event. He describes his conversion from pro-gun control advocate to Second Amendment advocate in his short, substantive book, "Coming to Terms: A Mass Shooting Survivor's Story."
The book is available on Amazon and through your local book dealer.
The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms-with-vulnernability, pro-coming-to-terms-with-personal-responsibility, pro-Second-Amendment, pro-Constitutional-Law-rightly-understood, pro-lawful-self-defense podcast.
Therefore, welcome Mr. David Frankel (JD, NYU Law School), author of Coming to Terms.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Dr. Mather teaches Constitutional Law and American Politics at Azusa Pacific in Lost Angeles County, California.
Baylor University Professor Dr. Perry Glanzer, Ph.D., is Editor of Christian Scholars Review and a former student of the late, great Dr. Dallas Willard of University of Southern California.
Our wide-ranging conversation covers issues ranging from Communism to Title IX Due Process violations to what it was like to be a student of Dallas Willard at USC to the possibilities and prospects of quality Christian Higher Education.
The Republican Professor is a pro-student-of-Dallas-Willard, pro-discerning-what-Christian-Higher-Education is podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Perry Glanzer, Ph.D., former student of Willard, Editor of Christian Scholars Review, of Baylor University, Texas !
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I really enjoyed my time with the young artist and budding business woman Ysabeth Sweet. Although I am much older (27)(I turn 27 again every year)(I'm special), I am better grounded by listening to the young and hearing what they're dealing with, how they see the world.
The Republican Professor is a pro-young-people-who-give-you-hope podcast.
Therefore, welcome Ms. Ysabeth Sweet.
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Dr. Chris Kaczor, Ph.D. is the author of "The Ethics of Abortion: Women's Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice" published by a standard academic publisher, Routledge Press, recently out in its 3rd edition (Sept 2022).
Dr. Kaczor joins TRP podcast from his office at Loyola Marymount University, Lost Angeles, California, to walk us through prominent scholarly arguments for abortion choice, finding them wanting. Without resorting to religion as a basis for argument, Professor Kaczor presents a case for fetal personhood based on evidence, reasons, and considerations that are available to pretty much anyone.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned at the US Supreme Court, the issue has remained relevant to local and state legislative debate throughout the country.
The Republican Professor is a pro-thinking-carefully-through-the-abortion-debate podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Christopher Kaczor, Ph.D., of Loyola Marymount University's Philosophy Department in LA.
The Republican Professor Podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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There's no one quite like Jonalyn Fincher.
The New England water colorist, follower of Jesus, and Second Amendment advocate is also an author, a popular public speaker, a mother, and wife. She can skin an elk, defend her kids from bears, and knock out a simple and elegant greeting card line, and write about some of the most interesting and compelling controversial topics in America. And she listens carefully and observes. It's part of what makes her a great artist.
For a long time, Jonalyn ran a non-profit with her husband, Dale. They wrote books and did public speaking all around the country to large and small audiences. They ran several blogs.
One day, she began painting seriously. After years of discipline, sacrifice of everyone in her family, and dedicated hard, smart, careful work, she has a line of impressive water color greeting cards selling in stores.She also does commissions for pieces.
Each one is a gripping, elegant study of some aspect of our world.
And, as you'll see, she wants the legal right to carry a gun for self-defense. She's humble, but not shy about it.
Though she has had mountain lion, bear, moose and elk on her property, including bear cubs who have snuck up on her children, she wants the legal right to carry a firearm for self-defense in the city. Some of the most dangerous parts of creation are found there, as well.
Though this need for effective self-defense, she emphasizes, is a cause for sadness, not celebration.
View her artwork, books and blog at : https://jonalynfincher.com/
Enjoy !
The Republican Professor is a pro-art-done-well, pro-lawful-self-defense, pro-Jesus-follower, pro-dedicated-hard-smart-disciplined-work-pays-off, pro-gripping-and-elegant-studies-of-our-world-through-art podcast.
Therefore, welcome dearest Jonalyn Fincher, otherwise known simply as Jonalyn.
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Dr. Justin Capes, Ph.D., teaches Philosophy at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, and has for a long time pondered questions about Free Will from every conceivable angle.
Here, Dr. Capes dialogues with us about the field of metaphysics within contemporary philosophy, and specifically, the metaphysics of the human person and of human agency.
Commonsensically, this brings up questions about moral responsibility and free will, namely, what is Free Will ? Given a correct definition, do we have Free Will ? How is Free Will properly and accurately defined ?
Even asking these questions seems to presuppose that we have it, because otherwise we wouldn't freely ponder such things in the first place. If we are freely pondering, what are we doing ? (Can one ponder unfreely ?)
Is there a point to asking such questions ? And could we do (or have done) otherwise ? Does that matter ? Why ?
Justin takes us through some thorny issues in neuroscience and philosophy, trying to move the ball forward in coming to terms with what Free Will is, and what difference it makes to understand this and to be able to articulate it well.
These discussions also help us to try our hand at these questions if for no other reason than to realize just how hard some of these issues are to master well, as well as how inescapable they are if you're paying attention.
The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms-with-basic-metaphysics, pro-hearing-philosophers-speak-to-scientists, pro-free-will-understood-well, pro-getting-precursors-to-moral-responsibility-right podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Justin Capes, Ph.D., of Flagler College in Florida.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., who couldn't help but do this episode. He couldn't not do it.
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This is the US Navy's birthday. Retired Navy Command Master Chief Larry Wilkse joins The Republican Professor Podcast to talk about his 30 year Navy career, which took him from the Navy's wrestling team to OS A-School to Surface Warfare qualification on the way to BUDS to a host of commands and deployments after becoming Special Warfare Sea Air and Land (SEAL) qualified. He deployed 14 times, had a couple changes of ratings, including multiple combat deployments where he was awarded multiple Bronze Stars and many other Navy and Joint service citations. He ended his career with the rating of Command Master Chief, having been a Plank Owner and Command Master Chief of the then-new SEAL Team 7 (new at the time 20 years ago).
Our discussion is wide-ranging, covering everything from combat to his view on teaching firearms to inner city youth and women to what he thinks about the so-called "assault weapon" ban for civilians to one of my favorites, the art and science of taking naps (Larry can time his naps exactly to the minute, ahead of time, and wake spontaneously) (lots of suffering in order to get to that point). He has also run for office, getting 43% of the vote in a +29 D district in California. Dude.
Larry is a fascinating individual and an absolute delight to shoot the bull with. He's a man's man with a heart of gold. He clearly wants to leave the world a better place than how he found it and is willing to sacrifice to see that happen.
Master Chief Wilkse (who would rather be called just "Larry") spent 30 years in the United States Naval Service, rising to the top of the enlisted ranks as well as to the apex of the operational capacities of the naval service, but Larry is still serving America.
Now he does so in a private capacity as president of Vanguard Training and Consulting, a firearms training group that brings quality small arms and situational awareness training to civilians, especially women, with appropriate sensitivity and effectiveness.
Check out https://femalefirearmsinstructor.com/about/ for more information.
Happy birthday, United States Navy.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Navy, pro-serving-America, pro-getting-the-bad-guys, pro-let-me-tell-you-what-I-really-think-about-the-"assault-weapon"-ban, pro-man's-man, pro-female-firearm-instructor, pro-let's-reach-the-inner-city-youth, pro-art-and-science-of-taking-naps podcast.
Therefore, welcome Command Master Chief Larry Wilkse (SEAL, SW, AW), USN (ret.), 30 year combat veteran and now president of Vanguard Training and Consulting (bringing situational awareness and firearms instruction to women across the country) or in other words, welcome Larry.
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Happy birthday, United States Navy.
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In TRP YouTube Episode 93, Dr. Shannon Holzer, Ph.D., a First Amendment Religion Clause scholar at Houston Baptist University joins TRP podcast today to discuss Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (decided 27 June 2022, US Supreme Court).
The case involved a football coach who had been fired for praying on the football field after the game.
The case is significant because it appears that the Court got rid of the infamous “Lemon” test that it sometimes had used in the past to resolve cases of this type. We discuss the “Lemon” test and some of the history and tradition of First Amendment Religion Clause jurisprudence as a part of our discussion.
The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-the-First-Amendment-right podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Shannon Holzer, Ph.D., First Amendment Religion Clause scholar at Houston Baptist University for his 3rd TRP episode.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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People like Amanda Spiers exist. She is 22 years old, went into the work force right out of high school.
She works for Leadership Institute and works to make America better, one task at a time.
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Dr. Scott Wenig, Ph.D. is a professionally trained historian, specializing in the history of the Church (which would include all branches of Christianity). Dr. Wenig's day job is the Haddon W. Robinson Chair of Biblical Preaching at Denver Seminary, but since his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder is in Church History (with original research for his dissertation in Europe), he also teaches Church History for the Seminary.
In fact, Scott was my (Dr. Mather's) Church History professor when I took the year-long M.Div. sequence (as an M.A. Academic track student) over 20 years ago.
Scott was my Early and Medieval Church History professor , as well as the history scholar on the Path of Paul trip to Greece and Turkey and the Mediterranean world back in 2001 in the months before 9/11 (along with Dr. Bill Klien, Ph.D., a New Testament scholar and my Greek teacher, and Dr. Ralph R. Covell, Ph.D., a specialist in Church History in China and Taiwan).
He's an interesting character. He has a wonderful sense of humor which isn't completely on display here (not as much as it was on the long bus-rides through Turkey in 2001). It's not normal to have a Preaching professor have such intense historical professional training in original archival research, or a Ph.D. in history. It enables Scott to have an interest in almost everything and to approach crisis situations with a measure of disciplined reflection on how the past shapes the meaning of the present.
Why? Because we're always searching for the appropriate historical analogues with which to understand accurately what we're facing, why, and what you can do productively about it. This helps us answer for ourselves the fundamental question: How we can be in the world.
Getting the appropriate historical analogues is not an easy task, though, and requires more training that you might have. You can't just snap your fingers, or look at some memes on social media, and have it right.
Studying more history may be the way forward for you. That requires a good mentor.
I took Church History with Dr. David Howle, Ph.D. as an undergraduate in Hawaii even though I didn't need it to graduate (and the Navy paid for most of it). I used that class to get out of the single semester Church History class for my MA program at Denver Seminary, but then decided I wanted to take the year long M.Div. track (M.Div. at the time was a year longer of study than the MA academic track). So I had 3 semesters, when I only "needed" 1. I did 3x the work. Why? In part because of people like Scott Wenig.
(My Reformation and Modern Church History professor was the late Dr. Bruce Shelley, Ph.D., author Church History in Plain Language).
The Republican Professor is a pro-historical-training, pro-having-the-appropriate-historical-analogues, pro-mental-well-being, pro-Haddon-Robinson-if-you-can-believe-that, pro-Church-History podcast .
Therefore, welcome Dr. Scott Wenig, Ph.D., Church History professor and travel companion extraordinaire .
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The co-author (with G.Z. Rodriguez) of three Christian "non-Hallmarky," "non-campy" Christian urban-fantasy-genre novels D.J. Vargas joins TRP for Episode 90 on YouTube. Father of two special needs children, a gun owner, a Caribbean-heritage black Hispanic whose mother tongue is Spanish but who talks with with a Jersey accent, Vargas is a versatile conversationalist, covering everything from how to raise children with Downs Syndrome and make sure they hear the Gospel, to contemporary Anglo-Analytic philosophical issues in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind, to socialism in his birth country of the once-prosperous Venezuela. Just to add to that, he makes a living with computers program stuff. "I make computers do things," he says. That's his definition of a real computer programmer.
Vargas and his childhood friend and co-author created a protagonist who is a Latina from the Bronx (not AOC). The book series features a fictional reflection, if you will, on the use of martial might and power from a Christian perspective. (Recall, in real life, he is a gun owner, a CZ pistol--we've been shooting together). The setting is like ours but with some fantastical elements. Not everything wraps up nicely in a bow, just like in real life. But that's the only preview you get.
Check the books out at https://www.amazon.com/D-J-Vargas/e/B09MZR67RT?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1663892596&sr=1-1
He's under contract for 3 more books published by LMBPN Publishing.
The Republican Professor is a pro-lawful-immigrant, pro-let's-create-something, pro-reflecting-on-fundamental-persistent-questions-in-fiction, pro-legal-self-defense, pro-it-doesn't-always-wrap-up-nicely-in-a-bow podcast.
Therefore, welcome my friend Danny Vargas, Christian novelist, gun owner, and father of special needs kids, man who makes computers do things.
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Dr. Keith Buhler, Ph.D., headmaster of a California K-12 school in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, doesn't even advertise for his school. They haven't needed to. Their private school has grown by leaps and bounds all by word of mouth.
Dr. Keith is the son of Southern California radio legend Rich Buhler. He earned his Ph.D. in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Kentucky and began his real estate journey while a student there. He now entirely or partially owns 22 doors (just the door, jk), having finished nearly a dozen deals, all on a very modest salary.
He walks us through the pitfalls and victories of this real estate journey, including mindset, discipline, having a mentor (and what do the mentors get out of it?), partnership with others, and the point of investing.
The Republican Professor is a pro-business, pro-marketplace, pro-figuring-it-out, pro-successful mentoring podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Keith Buhler, Ph.D., real estate investor, mentor, and headmaster.
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The concept of a "Mama Bear" needs no explanation. It instantly calls to mind a completely competent defender of the little bear cubs against whatever threatens those little ones.
Meet the founder of Mama Bear Apologetics, and the editor of the book "Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies," Hillary Ferrer. Like the branding, Hillary's aim is to help parents come to terms with the fact they are the first line of apologetic defense for their kids hearts and minds, and frankly, not many people are squared away for the task.
Mama Bear Apologetics seeks to meet the need by providing resources for parents to become the competent defender that the idea "Mama Bear" brings to mind.
We have a wonderful discussion especially about how you can track and handle manipulation of language. Dr. Mather shares his anecdotes of handling the manipulation of the term "Marriage" on college campuses in LA as an example.
Check the organization out at at https://mamabearapologetics.com/ and on the various social media platforms.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Mama-Bear, pro-Apologetics-done-well, pro-you-are-your-own-first-responder, pro-pay-attention-to-manipulation-of-language podcast.
Therefore, welcome Mama Bear Apologetics and Hillary Ferrer !
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TRP Podcast has been ranked #2 podcast that the devil hates (just behind EconTalk with Russ Roberts).
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Many say on 9/11 "never forget," but days later, on Constitution Day (9/17), they forget the Constitution. But Constitution Day is a much much bigger deal, a much bigger day, and for a much, much longer period of time.
That needs to change.
Our 2022 Constitution Day special guest here on The Republican Professor podcast is Dr. Lucas Morel, Ph.D., the John K. Boardman, Jr., Professor of Politics at Washington & Lee University in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, right where the Civil War happened.
Dr. Morel is the author of "Lincoln and the American Founding" (Southern Methodist University Press, 2020), a very nice slim volume packed with history, law, and wisdom. It's a book I myself am using this semester in my course on The American Founding at Azusa Pacific University in Lost Angeles County, a course originally designed by prof. Chris Flannery according to APU lore, and where our guest himself originally taught.
The volume can be found here : https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-American-Founding-Concise-Library/dp/0809337851/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E4JEGHO29WSN&keywords=lincoln+and+the+founding+morel&qid=1663195560&s=instant-video&sprefix=lincoln+and+the+founding+morel%2Cinstant-video%2C135&sr=1-1
Dr. Morel is originally from LA County and has black Hispanic heritage. Now he teaches at Washington & Lee University in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. So we have a black guest , Lincoln scholar, who teaches at a university named after 2 slave holders, including one who was, in our guests' words, "a traitor," Robert E. Lee. (Lee was not a Republican).
How to make sense of all this ?
Well, Dr. Morel is an open book. He walks us through this fact pattern as well as through some of his book, whetting our appetite for more on Lincoln and the Founding while at the same time quenching our curiosity today.
Dr. Morel helps us understand so many things about America, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.
This is an interesting episode and volume for many reasons, all having to do with how properly to contemplate the American Founding and later, the birth of the current Republican Party, which was founded in 1854, which led to the end of slavery in the United States.
Dr. Morel is a wealth of valuable information, insight, and wisdom about how to make sense of the Founding, race and slavery. He has studied and taught this stuff for decades and his material is worth consuming.
The Republican Professor podcast is a pro-correctly-contemplating the American Founding, pro-grasping-the-birth-of-the-Republican-Party, pro-abolishing-slavery, pro-best-of-American-statesmanship, pro-Abraham-Lincoln, pro-fundamentally-grasping-the-Constitution, pro-celebrating-Constitution-Day podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Lucas Morel, Ph.D., author of "Lincoln & the American Founding", John K. Boardman, Jr., Professor of Politics at Washington & Lee University, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, for TRP's 2022 Constitution Day episode.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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On this anniversary of a somber national trauma on September 11th, what better way to spend the day than with someone who understands how trauma can be stored in the body.
Our guest today is someone I've known for a long time: The Woman Behind Sarah Jackson Coaching has been through it.
Sarah learned the hard way, from the cumulative wisdom from long years of suffering how to resource the nervous system by releasing stored energy , allowing the body to return to a state of regulation, or rest and digest, which is the baseline God designed for us.
The woman behind Sarah Jackson Coaching on Instagram and Facebook is someone who is taking the heart of Jesus to the ministry of healing trauma and releasing it so that the nervous system can return to a baseline of "rest and digest." That's where we belong. It's what we were designed for by our Creator.
I personally think that the message here has some cultural ramifications. Much of politics involves trying to motivate people to do something by getting folks into a nervous system state of fight or flight.
That's not good for the nervous system. It may temporarily increase attention span to a narrow focus, but a perpetual cycle of this can wreck one's health, ultimately leading to brain fog and lower attention span. Many people become so overloaded that they go into dorsal vagal shutdown--they can't take it--or worse, freeze, which is a combination of fight or flight and shutdown.
Sarah spent 6 years in the prime of her young adult life in bed with chronic, invisible illness. I was writing colleagues with her at a non-profit at the time. During writer's meetings, I glimpsed first-hand what she was going through. She often did her writing from bed.
It seemed hopeless. She saw countless doctors. Sadly, there were multiple layers to this challenge, emotional, financial, social--she was deserted by friends and by the church when she was most vulnerable. She was gaslighted, because the medical people couldn't see anything wrong with her.
It was only when she began learning to release stored trauma with somatic, bottom up practices, that she began healing her system more holistically. Once that resourcing was in place, she began to heal in a more complete way than ever before.
Now she helps others to do the same.
I saw this transformation with my own eyes over the years. And I can speak from personal experience that her techniques work. She's not paying me to say any of this. I'm introducing you to her because I really believe in her.
It might seem like an odd topic for The Republican Professor, especially given the last 2 years. It's actually one of the most relevant topics we've ever covered on the podcast, because it gets to the heart of so many issues in our national, regional, and local culture that have relevance to education and learning. I think God designed us to be in a state of rest and digest for optimal learning. I think our politics work best if we develop a culture where people have an attention span, feel resourced and are indeed healthy. I know of no other way to do deep work necessary for long-term, healthy solutions for all problems, big and small.
You'll notice that Sarah is a lovely young woman and a joy to be around. Most impressive, though, from my perspective is the depth of her wisdom and life experience she has with suffering well. One of the spiritual forms she uses is lament. This is a deep teaching and will serve many millions well.
It's a strange topic, suffering well. Turns out, it's actually a thing. But she helps people move through the suffering to the other side.
The Republican Professor is a pro-resourcing-the-nervous-system, pro-rest-and-digest-baseline, pro-attention-span, pro-releasing-stored-trauma, pro-pursuing-health-by-suffering-well podcast.
Therefore, welcome dearest Sarah Jackson of Sarah Jackson Coaching on Instagram and Facebook.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D. is a research fellow at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point* (https://mwi.usma.edu/research-fellows/kerry-chavez/) but her day job is teaching quantitative methods, International Politics, Foreign Policy, and Politics of Military Force at Texas Tech University, where she is the Projects Administrator of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Laboratory.
Dr. Chavez is a quantitative methods scholar of International Security and Conflict, so she brings a her own collected data to the study of drones and violent non-state actors. She defines these terms for us, and we talk a little bit about how she collected those data.
Kerry is a co-author of a recent War on the Rocks article (with Ori Swed, former Israeli SF) called "Weak States and Loose Arms: Lessons and Warnings from Afghanistan to Ukraine" published July 12, 2022, which is the subject of much or our discussion here.
Here's a link to that article, here : https://warontherocks.com/2022/07/weak-states-and-loose-arms-lessons-and-warnings-from-libya-to-ukraine/
Dr. Chavez did some of her graduate work at St. Andrews University in Scotland, which I learned during this interview is not called "Street Andrews", like on a mailing address. And actually, I guess that makes sense.
Kerry has a rigorous, broad, classical education in her undergrad, as a graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University, and I think we talked about that enough to where Torrey now owes me 10% of any future revenue from their program, and Kerry should get 10%, too.
Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D., is a delightful person, has a charming and ironically disarming sense of humor, and our fun conversation (strange that this topic could be fun--I guess it was the person, not the topic per se), is wide-ranging and timely.
The Republican Professor is a pro-remembering-never-to-forget, pro-delightful-professors, pro-International-security-study-done-right, pro-having-fun-while-doing-serious-things, pro-someones-got-to-do-the-quant-stuff, pro-catching-up-with-old-friends podcast.
Therefore, welcome my good friend Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D., of Texas Tech and West Point.
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It's my personal pet peeve that we say Never Forget for 9/11, and yet days later, we forget Constitution Day, which is a bigger deal for a much longer time. That won't happen on The Republican Professor Podcast, at least not while I'm running it. Constitution Day should be as great, if not greater a day than July 4th, for without Separation of Powers, the Declaration would just be a piece of paper.
This year's TRP 9/11 memorial episode guest is a very special man, Senior Chief Gabe Morris, USN (retired). Senior Chief Morris spent over 22 years in the United States Navy working as a Linguist and Intelligence Analyst with the Tagalog and Arabic languages. (Why would we need Arabic linguists ? Hmmm).
His experience is as varied as very intense immersion-style academic training in the languages mentioned above, shore-based intelligence support, deployed special operations in the Middle East and elsewhere, but also includes time in Navy law enforcement, LEO special criminal investigations, and time as an instructor in support of Navy training, culminating in a highly specialized personnel billeting position for Navy linguists/intelligence orders which was a job for a Master Chief, which Gabe performed as a Senior Chief.
As impressive as his unique Navy career is and was, from my perspective, most impressive is that he stayed happily married for over 20 years of his active service, while in at times quite stressful operating conditions. I was at his wedding at Lover's Point, Pacific Grove , California in the early 90s, when California had a Republican governor (remember those times?). He's a humble servant of Christ, and he has been that way the entire time I've known him.
He's what we call in the business a true believer, and it was a pleasure catching back up with him.
The Republican Professor is a pro-true-believer, pro-Navy-linguist, pro-special-operations, pro-intel-analyst, pro-good-LEO, pro-staying-married-for-a-long-time-through-thick-and-thin, pro-awesome-example-for-the-kids podcast.
Therefore, welcome Senior Chief Gabe Morris, United States Navy, retired, for TRP 2022 9/11 Never Forget podcast episode.
(The kids never knew in the first place, never forget that you can't forget what you never knew). (That's why we need to tell them about it).
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Happy Labor Day weekend 2022: TRP Episode 85
TRP's Labor Day guest today is once again Dr. Arik Greenberg, Ph.D. He's writing a book. We talk at length about Dr. Greenberg's memoir that he's writing that gets into some detail of his family of origin. It mixes with Theology, which is his academic specialty.
Then we continue talking about Academic Labor issues, Unions, etc. from our earlier episode 23, published March 11, 2022: available here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmdTh2QiS9o and Episode 24 on Apple Podcasts available here : https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/03/12/episode-24-faculty-part-time-tenure-labor-issues-special-guest-dr-arik-greenberg-ph-d-of-loyola-marymount-university-la/
This is the second part of a multi-episode extended set of conversations on Faculty Labor Issues in Higher Education with our special guest today, Dr. Arik Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Lost Angeles.
Dr. Greenberg is a distinguished, seasoned faculty member on Lost Angeles college campuses and brings a wealth of experience not only in teaching and administration but also in union organizing and peace march demonstrations.
This topic of academic labor can get very complicated very quickly, but there is no other dialogue partner I can think of that can rise to that challenge with as much grace and humility as can Professor Greenberg. We are truly delighted that he stopped by to say a hi and stay awhile to continue into the weeds a bit on this topic.
And we do continue in some details, some specific numbers, so you can get a feel for what "part-time" professors get paid to teach college in Lost Angeles Ventura, and Orange County, California in recent decades.
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To move forward we have to listen carefully to each other and learn from each other, to forge relationships that are resilient enough to perdure through time.
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Happy Labor Day weekend from TRP
Here are links to the documents referenced by Dr. Greenberg at almost the 2 hour mark:
https://edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf and https://pullias.usc.edu/download/imperative-change-fostering-understanding-necessity-changing-non-tenure-track-faculty-policies-practices/?wpdmdl=13873&refresh=62bd03d0771fc1656554448
TRP Episode 82 on YouTube: Civil Rights attorney John Dillon, a prevailing attorney against California's so-called "assault weapon" definition and ban, reacts to the US Supreme Court's decision in NY Rifle & Pistol Assn v. Bruen (issued Thursday 23 June 2022).
His victory in federal trial court against the so-called California Department of Justice came last summer, June of 2021, in Miller v. Bonta decided 4 June 2021. Interesting for our purposes here, the Judge Benitez's (Cuban ancestry) reasoning in striking down the ban as a violation of the Second Amendment was essentially the same reasoning used by the high Court in Bruen. Benitez used the Heller test, as he called it, before, and in addition to the flawed reasoning that the 9th Circuit had developed to counteract Heller, because they don't like Heller.
You can and should read that very readable, well-argued Miller decision for yourself here : https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5854039725887452071&q=miller+v.+bonta&hl=en&as_sdt=2003
Feel free to tell me if I'm wrong in the comments. But make sure you base your argument in the text of Miller and in the text of Bruen. Cite those sources. (Good luck in that).
You can read the Bruen decision here : https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf
John goes into a little of his backstory, as well, of how he personally got into this topic. He did not grow up as a "gun guy." He was a normal undegrad a UCLA. It's possible he partied a little too much. But he majored in History. He did well in school.
He decided to go to Law School also in LA at Loyola. It was during law school there in LA that he went shooting at a club in LA and decided to buy his own firearm. There began his journey through the Alice in Wonderland type of web of irrational bureaucratic criminalization scheme that California and LA have enacted in the name of "public safety" and "police power." Police power, in these jurisdictions (like New York), could be symbolized with a fist in the air, power to the police, the police state. Innocence as a definition be damned. The once clear line between guilt and innocence in the California criminal law is now blurred, constantly moving, and sometimes not in line with anything approaching rationality or commonsense.
John Dillon began to take it as his mission in life to expose that to the world for what it is.
Referenced in this episode is also Justice Thomas's dissent from denial of cert in Sylvester v. Harris, here : https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-342_4hd5.pdf
^ It's short, read it . Get informed. It's also a delight to read because it's so well-written.
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The latest issue of Police State Magazine (Berkeley, Ca) has recently voted TRP #6th scariest publication for Statists who want to grow their Police State, behind the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, the corpus of Alexander Solzhenitzen, and Mila 18 by Leon Uris. We're honored. Thank you. Very humbling. #grateful
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For a time in his Ethiopian youth, Dr. Tedla G. Woldeyohannes, Ph.D., of Huntington University in Indiana, was a Marxist.
But gradually he was called out of that materialistic metaphysics , and out of scientism, into Biblical, historic orthodox Christian belief, and into classically rigorous Philosophy, the search for truth and love of wisdom.
Dr. Woldeyohannes has written a fascinating book in English (one of his 3 languages) just published called "A Philosopher's Testimony About the God Who Calls," which is worth every dollar and available for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Testimony-About-God-Calls/dp/B0B5KVD4K5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+philosophers+testimony&qid=1661750890&sr=8-1
The book is clearly and beautifully (and at times humorously) written. It describes that inner journey that led him into contact with the rock stars (for lack of a better term) of Anglo/American analytic Philosophy. If Alvin Plantinga, William P. Alston, & William Hasker were Bruce Springsteen, Bono, and Cher, Tedla was receiving signed copies of Born in the USA, Under A Blood Red Sky, and that one song from Groundhog Day, plus money, from these stars while he lived in Ethiopia !
Why did he receive these items ? Because he asked. He found their addresses, wrote letters, and asked for copies of books and articles unavailable to him otherwise.
It seems God was and is at work in Tedla's life.
Tedla joins us from Bill Hasker's old office there at Huntington University, which illustrates, perhaps even proves, the point.
Through dire poverty, through traumatic family challenges, including the death of his brother (his roommate at the time), through tumultuous economies and politics, through international visa bureaucratic BS challenges and hangups, through enrollments and missed assignments because he had , as Aristophanes said of Socrates, he had his head in the clouds, through failure, delay, and even family death, God called Tedla to study Philosophy, no matter what. God called Tedla, (Dr. Tedla, now) to a life of singular focus on a Christian search for truth.
This is a radical story. It's gripping.
HIs outer journey accompanies and is as dramatic as his inner journey, taking him from Africa to Lost Angeles County, California to study Anglo-American Analytic Philosophy from a Christian perspective at Biola University, then to Colorado to teach Philosophy for a time (where, as it turns out, the same school that my own parents met, in my hometown), then to Western Michigan to continue his skills in a purely secular Philosophy graduate program, and finally to a Ph.D. in Anglo/American Analytic Philosophy at a Jesuit school under the famous Medieval Scholar and Philosopher of Religion Eleanore Stump and the famous Epistemologist John Greco at Saint Louis University.
Through it all he was financially supported by Bill Alston and Bill Hasker, among some others, like for instance the philosophy celebrity equivalent of perhaps Johnny Cash, Dr. Peter van Inwagen, a famous Philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, who doesn't even think that money is real (see the 1 hour mark for detail of the metaphysics of ordinary palpable objects).
There are so many moving parts to this story, to this intellectual development, but final detail: Recall, Tedla was not a native English speaker. He had to work for it, and work hard. His first purchases were: a radio, and a good English dictionary. Both for the purposes of mastering English. It has paid off.
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Ms. Dezarae Payne is the director of a monthly firearms training clinic at the Ben Clark Sheriff's Training Center in Riverside County, California for Sheriff Chad Bianco (Riverside County Sheriff) to promote firearm safety and education for California citizens, typically women.
She is NRA, DOJ (California Department of Justice) and Riverside County Sheriff certified CCW (Conceal Carry Weapon) instructor.
In addition, she is the founder and CEO of FemaleFirearmsInstructor.com and develops curriculum for that company, Vanguard Training and Consulting, which teaches especially women how to safely handle and carry firearms.
You can check out her female-focused firearms training here : https://femalefirearmsinstructor.com/about/
Women don't necessarily want to be trained by another woman, according to Dezarae. Frankly, it might just be that they don't want to be trained by their husband or boyfriend.
Ms. Payne has a unique temperament perfectly suited to this kind of training.
Firearms education and training can be very intimidating to those who feel jolted by the loud noises, who are initially afraid of the weapon itself, who don't understand how it works, why it does what it does, how to clear jams safely (finger off the trigger, always aware and in control of where the muzzle is, that it's constantly at all times pointed in the best direction, a "safe" direction, etc), to load and unload and be aware of others (at all times), and to do so while having a great time, that all can be overwhelming to people new to firearms. If they feel shame or their nerves are in dorsal vagal shutdown, they won't take the information in.
Culture was such in my childhood first experiences with firearms that I was afraid of being unsafe, and that fear was reinforced by my social community (by everyone), I would have been shamed into oblivion for violating any of these safety norms, it's sometimes hard for me to remember that the newcomer to firearms safety and training doesn't have those deeply ingrained habits and intuitions. Somehow, the safe and strict firearms culture in my family and friends also allowed for freedom, responsibility, and fun with firearms at a very early age there in the Colorado of my youth. But not everyone has that background, and many can't even contemplate what that would be like for them.
That's why I'm so impressed with Ms. Payne's gentle, firm, disciplined, informed, safe approach to leveling women up (and some men, too).
She is the guardian of the best in American "gun culture," including the politics side of this equation. This stuff doesn't happen in a political vacuum.
Dezarae grew up in Montana and moved to California as an adult. She was carrying legally in her home state, having gone through the very simple process there of obtaining a carry permit. What she experienced when she got to California was a nightmare in terms of compliance. Innocent people can easily become accidental criminals in the intense matrix and web of irrationally complex, non-intuitive police state mentality of California law. Of course, as Dezarae notes, nothing changed as far as her safety and training with firearms when she moved from one part of America to another. Why the heavy-handed overreach in California ? It didn't and still doesn't make any sense, as it didn't seem to have any even minimal rationality attached to California's over-criminalization approach.
Most politicians start out local. That's the time to train and educate them into protecting the right to self-defense and everything necessary to support that right, culturally and politically. So, start locally in politics.
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We're joined today by Prof. Dr. Errin Clark (Ph.D., Medieval Philosophy, SLU), a current or former Adjunct Professor in Wisconsin, Missouri, and Ohio. He's taught Logic, Critical Thinking, Theology, Latin, World Religions, Medical Ethics, Business Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of the Human Person (Philosophical Anthropology), and high school as well.
Dr. Clark is a serious Catholic scholar, having been classically trained at the Jesuit school St. Louis University, not pronounced "street Louis University," which I found out during our interview.
Dr. Clark (not pronounced "drive Clark", which I also discovered during our interview)(awkward) is a gun owner, training his six kids in firearms safety fundamentals. This despite the fact that he grew up near Santa Cruz, California.
We cover a host of topics related to Philosophy, like philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, Plato versus Aristotle, Medieval Philosophy (which he specialized in under the famous medievalist scholar, Eleonore Stump at SLU), teaching college, firearms heritage, inculcating virtue in the kids, grade inflation, issues in Theology, like whether angels or demons are real, drug use, the occult, different Christian denominations in his California growing up years, etc.
It's a wide-ranging discussion.
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The Honorable Mr. Kevin Muldoon, JD, the Mayor of Newport Beach in Orange County, California, joins The Republican Professor podcast today to talk about local California politics.
You've heard of "the Deep State". Muldoon calls local government "the Shallow State." Kevin has a great sense of humor.
Kevin started his career in politics in the George W. Bush White House (Executive Office Building), eventually going on to Law School in Orange County and then to the local prosecutor's office after passing the Bar. He eventually went into business.
He graduated from a Loyola Marymount University in Lost Angeles (where Dr. Mather, TRP's producer and host, also went and where Dr. Mather taught for a long time). Kevin was awarded the Dr. Singleton Award in Economics while at LMU.
He was recruited by locals to run for local office in Newport Beach and so he did back in 2014, and was elected to the part-time City Council position, where he has been since. He has been Mayor, before, and is currently serving as Mayor, having been selected for the position by his City Council elected colleagues.
I'll bet you'll learn something you didn't know about local politics if you stick around.
"You don't do it for the money."
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Therefore, welcome Mr. Mayor of Newport Beach , California (Orange County), USA, Mr. Kevin Muldoon !
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Not many people can make Metaphysics interesting while not screwing you up , but then, not many people are Prof. Rob Koons, Ph.D of UT Austin.
Dr. Robert Koons, Ph.D (UCLA), full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas , Austin, joins us from his librarious (should be a word) university office to help walk us through the fundamentals of metaphysics.
Metaphysics is not what Barnes & Noble says it is. At least, not in the context of 20th Century Analytic Philosophy , or even the history of philosophy.
Rather, "metaphysics" is a technical term for a field within the discipline of Philosophy that refers to the study of Reality, how everything ultimately hangs together in existence, including what kinds of things there are, ultimately. Its focus is on being as such, rather than knowledge of being, on moral or aesthetic judgments .
He is the coauthor, along with Dr. Timothy Pickavance, of a book called Metaphysics: The Fundamentals (Wiley Blackwell Publishing) for the beginning upper-level metaphysics student . (It may also be useful for graduate students or professors).
The types of issues covered include Causation, Free Will, the nature of Time (is time travel possible ?), and the very nature of possibility and necessity, itself. It's focused yet wide ranging, and so strap in and enjoy.
Please support your local book stores. But here is a Mississippi link so you know what to ask for at the book store that you walk into: https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Fundamentals-Philosophy-Robert-Koons/dp/1405195738/ref=sr_1_1?crid=15GP5DX66K3FY&keywords=fundamentals+of+metaphysics&qid=1660681637&sprefix=fundmentals+of+metaphysics%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1
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Born out of wedlock, Southern California (LA County) native Karina Salcedo grew up for a time in the Spanish speaking garage of her grandma, and is now at the time of the recording (Summer 2022) she is 22 years old, married, and an intern for US Senator Ted Cruz at the US Senate Judiciary Committee, going into her 2nd year of law school at ASU.
A woman of Christian faith, she begins each day with the Lord in prayer and Bible study. She eats a great breakfast and works out 5 days a week, and goes to work on studying the Law.
With an increasingly sharp eye, Karina diagnoses what ails California. Key for her is the health of the family, its ability to make a living, and the faithfulness of government to the Constitution and natural law. (Natural law is the source of human rights).
Her church family goes shooting every weekend, her parents are still together, and are in fact married, her husband loves firearms and freedom, and she is loving the study of law and serving at the US Senate Judiciary Committee and Senator Ted Cruz (not Tom Cruise's brother, we cleared that up).
She gives us the rundown of favorite Law school classes and what her routine is like being married, and a sense of the source of her ambition, which is to serve the country in a spirit of faithfulness to God.
Yes, we talk about immigration and Republican politics. And, yes, she is Hispanic. So she has some opinions, and so we get into that.
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Professor of Political Science Dr. Darren Guerra, Ph.D., shares his approach to teaching Political Science from a Christian perspective to undergraduates in Lost Angeles County, California.
Professor Guerra is a Constitutional Scholar who has thought deeply about the original purpose and wise design of key features of the US Constitution and Declaration. For example, one issue is, how slow the Amendment process is, is that justified to correct it? He has written a book about Article V of the original Constitution called "Perfecting the Constitution: the Case for the Article V Amendment Process" available at your local book dealer (please support brick and mortar local bookstores !) and here on Ganges: https://www.amazon.com/Perfecting-Constitution-Case-Amendment-Process-dp-1498515444/dp/1498515444/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1660537303
Guerra thinks it's true slavery is wrong.
Professor Guerra (Italian, pronounced Gu-air-rah) is careful to get the students talking constructively with each other about fundamental issues prior to politics per se, issues that include basic epistemology: epistemic justification, the conditions for acquiring knowledge, and the definition of truth itself.
This political epistemology, as we might call it, is geared toward equipping the student to recover from and then withstand the nonsense of moral relativism, the absurdity of the so-called "fact-value" distinction, and its ancient neighbor, metaphysical naturalism or materialism. Pedagogically, sometimes, it means slowing way down and rethinking for ourselves our commitment to the truth of certain propositions with political relevance, such as murder is wrong, or that slavery is wrong.
In the American context, historically Democrats have long been skeptical of the truth of the statement that slavery is wrong (and hence, that murder of a slave is wrong), and clearly Democrats often still do maintain skepticism of the truth of such basic political statements. Presently, Biola University is surrounded by contemporary California Democrats. The temptation to fit in with them culturally and philosophically is enormously powerful for many, I imagine. Democrats control most of popular culture in California and beyond, including the disastrous government K-12 schools that squeeze out often inarticulate, incoherent metaphysical naturalists, materialists, relativists, in short, Democrat graduates, almost as if by design.
But Republicans have always held to to truth of the statement that slavery is wrong (any counterexamples ?). We have always insisted on the know-ability of that fact (see Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural, discussed here in this episode by Prof. Mather in a college evaluation anecdote of his own), and indeed, the modern Republican party was founded upon it in 1854, and fought a war in part over that issue. On one level it may be discouraging to have to continue, in a different form, to fight that philosophical battle, as it were, so to speak, yet again in the classroom or in the culture, sometimes it's not clear how exactly that should go.
Dr. Darren Guerra is a master at crafting the curriculum to move the ball discernibly down the road to greater true progress. (The so-called "Progressive" "progress" quite often isn't true progress). (It's important to distinguish "progressivism" in name only from true progress).
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We're back for PART TWO after a successful spring 2022 US Supreme Court term, joined again by the (pro-bono) president of the 140-year old historic California Rifle and Pistol Association (he does not take a salary for the position), Chuck Michel.
In this episode, Chuck breaks down the impact of the recent Right to Bear Arms (RTBA) case at the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) handed down on Thurs 23 June 2022, NY Rifle & Pistol Assn v. Bruen (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf) and what California DOJ actually did after this ruling. They released private information on every law-abiding gun owner in California, including CCW holders who have proved a need for good cause, to world-wide criminals and terrorists -- anyone with an internet connection.
There is a Blue Resistance to the ruling with this goal: to criminalize innocent conduct, making it harder for people to effectively defend themselves lawfully. The flawed assumption remains: The police are your bodyguards with a duty to protect you. It's not common knowledge, but that's false . (This is easy to verify with a little sweat equity).
Chuck is the LA County-based Civil Rights attorney who prevailed at the 9th Circuit in the initial 3 judge panel which issued an opinion of the Court that is FAMOUS in California for being powerfully argued & beautifully written by Judge O'SCANNLAIN in Peruta v. County of San Diego in 2014 (a Right to Bear Arms case, conceal carry). That opinion was predictably reversed en banc only by ignoring the merits of the 3 judge panel opinion of the Court. SCOTUS in Bruen now changes everything for that en banc reversal.
Recall, Chuck is nationally famous as the California "Freedom Week" attorney, which, if you don't remember, within the span of a few days in 2019, brought 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines into California. The District Court issued a wonderfully persuasive, masterfully argued Finding of Fact and Opinion of the Court Duncan v. Becerra (366 F. Supp. 3d 1131 - Dist. Court, SD California 2019). At issue there was the unConstitutionality of California's arbitrary and capricious 10-round magazine limitation.
One can support the California Rifle and Pistol Association 501(c)3 tax-deductible educational foundation by making your book purchases through AmazonSmile, indicating you'd like to pick Jeff Bazos' pocket by designating a charity to support. It doe not raise the price one pays for the book.
Be sure to check out Chuck's book, "California Gun Laws: A Guide to State and Federal Firearms Regulation" 2022 9th Edition here (remember to use AmazonSmile so that a charity gets part of the $).
For more information about California Rifle and Pistol Association, check out : https://crpa.org/
For information on Chuck's boutique Long Beach law firm, check out : https://michellawyers.com/
For links to the major California-based, very persuasively written, masterfully argued, and influentially received Second Amendment opinions rendered by federal judges and mentioned above, check out :
Peruta v. County of San Diego (2014) (Persuasive Original Three Judge Panel Opinion) : 742 F. 3d 1144 - Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2014.
The nationally famous "Freedom Week" Federal District Court opinion that brought in about 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines in less than a week to California, Duncan v. Becerra, 366 F. Supp. 3d 1131 - Dist. Court, SD California 2019.
The 9th Circuit 3-Judge panel op: Duncan v. Becerra, 970 F. 3d 1133 - Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2020.
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Therefore, welcome attorney Chuck Michel, pro-bono president of the 140-year-old California Rifle & Pistol Association.
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Our guest for today's episode is Texas State House Candidate Jonathan Schober. We discuss lessons learned in running for state legislative office in Williamson County, north of Travis County , where Austin is.
We talk Lockdowns under Republican leadership, property taxes (the problems in that, practically and philosophically) in Texas, and economic liberty (and the infringement of economic liberties), and the use of the state guard to stem the tide of vulnerable people exploited at the border by the cartels and coyotes.
The approach that Jonathan used was an "educate the voter" approach, where they put out a newspaper--it actually was a small newspaper one could hold in your hand and read--on the issues important in that area of Texas relevant to the election. Did it work ? No, it didn't work in winning. But does that mean that that strategy should be abandoned in the future ? Not necessarily. Have a listen and tell us what you think about the approach. We'd be happy to hear from you.
The Republican Professor is a pro-educating-the-voter, pro-protecting-economic-liberty, pro-lessons-learned podcast.
Therefore, welcome Jonathan Schober !
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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"Halee, what happened to you was rape. And if you don't call it that, you're never going to get better," Halee’s co-worker said to Halee when she finally told someone the true story 4 months later.
Our guest today is the Christian spiritual formation and leadership scholar Dr. Halee Gray Scott, Ph.D. She speaks with a slight, charming Texas drawl.
"I grew up in serious country," Texas-native Dr. Halee Gray Scott, Ph.D., begins her story by saying. "I swam in crocodile-infested waters" exploring the nooks and crannies of the East-Texas wilderness. Her childhood was at the same time idyllic for an insatiably curious contrarian kid such as herself, and at the same time quite frightening. There were tornadoes coming down from the uncontrollable, unpredictable and angry giant Texas sky.
Later, her adventurous spirit directed her curiosity to scholarship into stable truths about Leadership and the Christian faith, about how young people's attitudes are being shaped by forces we didn't have when we were kids.
Whereas the threat of a tornado kept her up at night, now it's the kids. It's the church, and what they're dealing with. It's what the churches and seminaries are or are not doing about it. Maybe they don't know what to do about it, or how to be.
Halee's heart is as follows: she hopes to help others to get trained to fill the gap between the challenges facing Leadership and the training they receive.
She first got on the radio at 15 years old.
Now, she has a Ph.D., is a syndicated radio host, and author of Dare Mighty Things: Mapping the Challenges of Leadership for Christian Women.
Her latest book is Not a Hopeless Case: 6 Vital Questions from Young Adults for a Church in Crisis, available April 2023.
Check out Christian Curious Radio Program here: https://www.christiancurious.com/
In this wide-ranging discussion, we talk touch on the Kingdom of God and the ethics of eating meat, and naturally from that to hunting. I take the American Indian perspective, for the most part, on the uses of the animal. We camp out on Indian-stuff for a while, what it must have been like for the settlers.
We touch on the role of women in ministry. This is a huge part of her professional research.
We talk about her Washington Post article where she reported having been raped by her pastor in Texas when she was a young woman, how how she has and is dealing with that. You can find the article titled "#MeToo: I was Raped by my Pastor" published October 16, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/10/16/metoo-i-was-raped-by-my-pastor/
It ran in the print edition of the Post.
She had come to college there at UNT, Denton an atheist, and at the time of the rape, had only been a true Christian for 3 months.
Does Halee still believe that there is a good God as revealed in the Bible ?
Yes, she does. But it's been a journey, and continues to be.
Her passion involves protecting the possibility of that belief in the soil of other vulnerable souls, as well. It's what motivates her research and directs her professional steps.
It took her 4 months to tell anyone about it, and when she did, her co-worked used the appropriate term "rape." But it took her 15 years to come to terms with that word for what happened. And she had panic attacks for years every-time she went inside a church.
But she's healing.
We do not rush through this conversation. There is no rush. We take our time. We just enjoy the company and the conversation, and hope you do, too.
The Republican Professor is a pro-coming-to-terms, pro-reminiscing-of-idyllic-childhood-conditions, pro-take-your-shoes-off-and-stay-awhile, pro-theological-discussion, pro-wrestling-with-the-problem-of-evil, pro-let's-help-not-screw-the-kids-up-and-keep-the-leadership-appropriately-trained-up-and-accountable podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Halee Gray Scott, Ph.D., Curious Christian
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Few episodes have given me more joy to produce than this one with the man behind Made by Jimbob, Mr. Jimbob himself.
He's on his like 4th Instagram account now having been banned on social media for his cartoons, for his art and social commentary. His cultural observations through art and cartoons are apparently "unsafe" or "dangerous" for a certain group of people who run social media. Does he stop ? No, he keeps going, sometimes with an even bigger smile on his face than before. Mr. Jimbob (or, Jimbobb now, with 2 b's--he just keeps adding b's when he needs for new accounts if old ones get shutdown by the Thought Police) keeps on keeping on, and in fact he produces the art you can hang on your wall, that you can touch, art that lasts.
You'll find that the man is incredibly well-thought out (he uses the term 'metaphysics' casually and accurately, for instance, just as an example) and that he is mature and purposeful in what he does for MadebyJimbob. He's and also quite funny and down to earth, all at the same time.
For more information, check out https://madebyjimbob.com/ and look him up and follow him on social media.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Free-Speech, pro-art-as-effective-social-and-political-commentary, pro-getting-people-to-think-with-just-the-right-art-work, pro-art-helping-us-notice-reality, pro-skillful-use-of-art-as-humor, pro-down-to-earth-thoughtful-person podcast
Therefore, welcome cartoonist, artist, and humorous social critic Mr. Jimbob, the man behind MadeByJimbob !
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
It's our great honor to welcome the founder of Apologetics.com, the delightfully humorous Lion of Christian Apologetics, Dr. Harry Edwards.
Dr. Edwards is ethnically Filipino, speaks Tagalog fluently having grown up there in the big city on Luzon. Harry moved to the US lawfully when he was a very young man.
There were many, many years when every time you went into the Biola University bookstore, back when they sold, well, books instead of everything else besides books (you can buy coffee mugs, skis, hunting rifles, used Toyota trucks, and rare military insignia, but not like hard cover books anymore at the Biola Book Store since the decline began)(actually, hunting rifles would be progress, but), you would see Harry Edwards there, the king of the Biola Bookstore Commonwealth. And that's because fundamentally Harry is a nerd, sure, but more superficially, it's because Harry was the Biola Bookstore Manager.
In other words, you thought of Harry, you thought, books. Books, books, books. And he loves books, and he had and has a passion for introducing people to books, books, and more books.
That alone would be a good reason to be a fan of Dr. Harry Edwards.
Harry has jet black hair (and he's old, and he does not dye it), he's got dark skin, and he grew up elsewhere, yet he is a red-blooded American.
Dr. Harry Edwards has a passion for reaching the lost in America, especially Generation Z, with the wonderful news (true, defensible news) of the historic, biblical Christian Gospel and all the truths of general revelation that flow out of and are consistent with that view of the world. His doctoral dissertation was on reaching Generation Z with Apologetics. His doctorate is a D.Min., a Doctor of Ministry, with emphasis in Apologetics from the epicenter of scholarship on Christian Apologetics, Southern California's Biola University, Talbot School of Theology, in Lost Angeles County.
(D. Min. is ironically pronounced "dmon" -- ironic because there's nothing dmonic about it, actually).
Many years ago Harry founded Apologetics.com which he still runs while on the pastoral staff of Christian church in Orange County, California. Part of that effort involves a late-night radio program and podcast in Lost Angeles which helps listeners develop, refine, correct, and progress in the best way to understand Christianity and the world.
The Republican Professor is a pro-books, pro-awesome-bookstore-that-actually-sells-books, pro-Apologetics-done-right, pro-red-blooded-American-no-matter-what-color-you-appear-to-be, pro-America-loving-lawful-immigrant, pro-re-thinking-how-best-to-reach-the-young podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Harry Edwards, D.Min. (in Christian Apologetics, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, California).
The co-host for this episode is Kurtis Olson, co-founder of TheRepublicanProfessor.com
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
A helpful note on the numbering of TRP episodes:
This is Episode 70 of The Republican Professor on YouTube.
The last two audio-only episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. (featuring a topic on which YouTube censors free discussion) featured Dr. John R. Lott, Ph.D. and Jon Matthews. The last YouTube episode, The Fatty Truth on Instagram on Political Censorship, was numbered episode 68 on YouTube because our Good Friday and Easter episodes 2022 were not numbered. But this is the 70th episode uploaded to The Republican Professor channel on YouTube.
The Audio only version of The Republican Professor podcast included Episode 1 on Abortion, recorded January 2021 with K-12 Public School Teacher Aaron Axtell, published late 2021. Episode 2 was published early 2022. Episode 2 of the audio-only line-up is Episode 1 on YouTube, since the real Episode 1 with Aaron Axtell on Abortion did not have video.
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Hey TRPers,
This is a conversation with Jon Matthews of Election Integrity Project California which has settled one lawsuit and is in the middle of appealing another right now at the 9th Circuit.
We talk about Election Integrity. The key to moving forward with shoring up Election Integrity is transparency.
I normally publish the episode to my YouTube channel, The Republican Professor, before it goes out to the rest of the world on Apple podcasts through TRP’s website. But I hesitate to do that for this episode and the one which came before with Dr. John Lott.
YouTube censors discussion about Election Integrity.
They took down one of TRP’s videos early on when my co-host and I, Kurtis Olson, interviewed the film producer and book publisher Brad Cummings (The Shack, book and film). In three hours, Brad said his opinion that there a lack of integrity and transparency in our election system twice. That’s right, in 3 hours of conversation about everything else, he briefly mentioned just twice, very quickly, his personal opinion about how much work we have to do to shore up Election Integrity in the United States, and YouTube took it down for “spreading misinformation” about a very specific election for a specific office during a specific year, details Brad hadn’t even bothered to mention, his comments were so brief.
Democrats run YouTube, and we had a strike, or warning of a strike against my YouTube channel (you get 3 before your channel is gone).
I did appeal and they did republish the video, so verify yourself — go watch Brad Cummings’ episode and see for yourself whether that video is “harmful” to the community.
The bottom line for me is that although YouTube reinstated the video , they did so at their sole discretion without any explanation (or expectation that they owed us or anyone any explanation) as to why they changed their minds, or how specifically they make their decisions, nor did they offer an apology for their admitted mistake. And so I’m left with a chilling effect on frank discussion about that topic on YouTube. By the way, YouTube sure seems to be run by Democrats, certainly not by Republicans.
Enjoy this episode with our guest Jon Matthews with Election Integrity Project Californai, and look for the video on Rumble if you want to see us.
The Republican Professor is a pro-secure-elections, pro-shoring-up-election-integrity, pro-Free-Speech-about-election-integrity-on-any-platform, pro-producing-people-who-can-think-for-themselves-instead-of-having-Youtube-run-by-Democrats-censor-the-information-they-may-need-to-make-up-their-own-minds-intelligently, pro-transparency-in-elections podcast.
Therefore, welcome Jon Matthews of Election Integrity Project, California.
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. (Ph.D. UCLA, Economics) is best known to us as a researcher on the harms and myths of the effectiveness of gun control, but Dr. Lott joins The Republican Professor podcast this episode to discuss his recent Hillsdale College Imprimis piece called "Is Ensuring Election Integrity Anti-Democratic?" (October 2021, to 6.1 million readers). Dr. Lott provides a comparison of the US with the rest of the World on efforts to shore up election integrity.
What he writes is shocking.
I normally publish the episode to my YouTube channel, The Republican Professor, before it goes out to the rest of the world on Apple podcasts through TRP's website. But I hesitate to do that for this episode and the one to follow. YouTube censors free discussion about Election Integrity.
They took down one of TRP's videos early on when my co-host, Kurtis Olson, and I interviewed the film producer and book publisher Brad Cummings (The Shack, book and film). In his three hour episode, Brad expressed his opinion twice, within a span of about 10 seconds, that there a lack of integrity and transparency in our election system.
That's right, in 3 hours of conversation about everything else, he briefly mentioned just twice, very quickly, his personal opinion about how much work we have to do to shore up Election Integrity in the United States.
YouTube took it down for "spreading misinformation" about a very specific election for a specific office during a specific year, details Brad hadn't even bothered to mention, his comments were so brief. And they threatened my TRP channel with a strike.
Democrats run YouTube, and we had a strike, or warning of a strike against my YouTube channel (you get 3 before your channel is gone).
I appealed and they did republish the video. So verify yourself — go watch Brad Cummings’ episode and see for yourself whether that video is “harmful” to the community.
The bottom line for me is that although YouTube reinstated the video , they did so at their sole discretion without any explanation (or expectation that they owed us or anyone any explanation) as to why they changed their minds, or how specifically they made their decisions, nor did they offer an apology for their admitted mistake. And so I’m left with a chilling effect on frank and free discussion about that topic on YouTube. By the way, YouTube sure seems to be run by Democrats, certainly not by Republicans.
Enjoy this episode with our esteemed guest, Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D., and look for the video on Rumble if you want to see us.
The Republican Professor is a pro-secure-elections, pro-shoring-up-election-integrity, pro-Free-Speech-about-election-integrity-on-any-platform, pro-producing-people-who-can-think-for-themselves-instead-of-having-Youtube-run-by-Democrats-censor-the-information-they-may-need-to-make-up-their-own-minds-intelligently, pro-transparency-in-elections podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D.
My co-host for this episode was Kurtis Olson.
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
When our guest began her Instagram page, it was about Keto stuff. It was a typical food account, pictures of food. It still is about food, if you go and look at her pictures.
But then the first quarter of 2020 happened, and she lost her job as a result of the lockdowns in New York, and she went from not having a political pulse--in her words, not knowing the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, a self-described liberal woman, a racial and ethnic minority who grew up in a foreign country--she went from political novice to voting for Trump in 2020. This despite the fact she is not in the Klan, as she clearly says when I asked her just to make sure. She's also not a Nazi -- I double-checked on that, as well. So.
She now uses Instagram to post Bible quotes and political and social commentary on the news of the day through Instagram stories.
Instagram doesn't like her.
It doesn't let her be tagged by other people. Instagram doesn't allow you to hashtag her account name. It shadow-bans her. It has caused her to lose thousands of followers. And this kind of thing has been happening ever since she , well, became a Republican !
Amazing coincidence !
It's almost as if the people who run Instagram are ... Democrats !
The Republican Professor is a pro-Free-Speech, pro-Free-thought, pro-freedom-of-inquiry, pro-civil-non-censored-dialogue-on-social-media podcast.
Therefore, welcome, the woman behind The Fatty Truth on Instagram !
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
At the time of this recording in Spring of 2022, Professor Paul Franks, Ph.D. was not yet Vice President of Tyndale University in Toronto, Canada, but as you'll see in this episode, he brings an authentic, warm, honest, charitable demeanor to our conversation, sprinkled with a delightful sense of humor. And we needed it for such serious topics as firearms over-regulation and the problem of evil.
What I love about this episode is how Paul takes us through, in painstaking detail, the dignity-defying, overly-regulated process of obtaining, owning, and carrying a firearm in Canada (it costs $20,000 to take a pistol outside the home lawfully--not kidding--that's how corrupt the system is), offering lightheartedly as he does that Canadians think that guns have cooties, which is a word that I last heard for girls in elementary school. He talks about it in as much detail as I asked (and I asked a lot), very minimally critiquing, just describing the process by which one has to ask the sovereign for permission to have a firearm .
He did his graduate work at the University of Oklahoma (studied Philosophy of Religion for his Ph.D. under the famous philosopher Linda Zagzebski) and is from Oklahoma so this kind of thinking is quite foreign, which makes sense, because Canada is almost like a foreign country. (That's my dry sense of humor). He has wonderful things to say about Canada otherwise, however, and about Tyndale University in Toronto, where he as taught for a long time.
Most crucially, Dr. Franks takes us through The Problem of Evil in an area of Philosophy commonly called "Philosophy of Religion." How does God fit in a world with evil ? Atheists think there is no fit, so evil must stay and God must go. (It's an interesting question then, what exactly is the definition of evil , then? Doesn't evil go, as well ?).
Paul is the editor of "Explaining Evil: Four Views" published by Bloomsbury Academic Press, available in paperback here: https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Evil-W-Paul-Franks/dp/1501331124/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Explaining+evil+four+views&qid=1657992816&sr=8-1
Join us as we talk through all these things. Maybe have a notepad ready to take notes.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Philosophy-of-Religion, pro-rightly-understanding-the-Problems-of-evil, pro-describing-accurately-the-arduous-dignity-defying-labyrinth-of-firearm-regulation-criminalizing-innocent-conduct, pro-I-need-a-sense-of-humor-to-get-through-this podcast.
Welcome Dr. Paul Franks, Ph.D.
The Republican Professor Podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
What an incredible honor to spend this precious time with Samra Dresevic of Maverick Lingo, a small business in based in Lost Angeles, California. She speaks to us in her 4th language. And good luck finding any mistakes in her diction, vocabulary, or grammar. She speaks flawless English.
Samra grew up Muslim in an idyllic, rural childhood only to experience massive trauma as a 10 year old when her youth was shattered by war. Her family immediately became refugees in Europe, and her life was never the same again. In her words, she lost her childhood.
Many, many years later, in her 4th language, she had Professor Mather, the producer and host of The Republican Professor podcast, while a student at Loyola Marymount University in Lost Angeles, California. It was a morning class, Philosophy 160, Philosophy of Human Nature as it was called at the time, that began her friendship with the professor.
[LMU has since dispensed with the course for reasons that utterly baffle all intelligent people].
That was 10 years ago as of the recording of this episode. The lines of communication and dialogue have stayed open throughout the years between Samra and the professor.
Samra is now a successful small business owner, an entrepreneur, related to language learning in Lost Angeles, California, having become an American. Her company is called Maverick Lingo and you can check out her website here : https://www.mavericklingo.com/
The Republican Professor is a pro-staying-in-touch-with-the-best-students, pro-lines-of-communication-open, pro-entrepreneur, pro-small-business-owner, pro-language-learning, pro-intriguing-life-story podcast.
Therefore, welcome dearest Samra Dresevic, one of my very favorite former students ever out of thousands.
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
It seems like only 47 years ago that Dr. Ciocchi began teaching Logic, but no: It's actually been 48. David Ciocchi has nearly half a century of service to Christ, Culture & kids under his belt.
My former boss joins us in this episode of The Republican Professor podcast.
Partial disclosure (people say "full disclosure" but then go on only to partially disclose -- full disclosure would take a lot of time, wouldn't it?): I was his Logic Teaching Assistant (TA) for multiple semesters while I was in graduate school studying Philosophy for my Masters at Biola University in Lost Angeles County, California.
I cut my teeth learning from this master how to teach Logic, something I ended up doing myself for 15 years in Lost Angeles and Ventura Counties (So Cal). His name is Dr. David Ciocchi, Ph.D., and Professor Ciocchi has taught for darn near half a dadgum century Introduction to Logic to blurry eyed students and budding citizens of this great Republic.
Dr. Ciocchi is known as a gentle, patient mentor with one of the driest and most pedagogically effective senses of humor known to man. (It's not on full display here because that was not the purpose of the episode--you'd have to talk to his former students). His classes for decades have been Mon Wed Fri (MWF) starting before 8 am. The co-host for this episode, Kurtis, took his course 3 times at that early schedule, each time faring better than the last, and Dr. Ciocchi's consistent gentle, patient demeanor is on full display there as those sensitive details come up.
Dr. Ciocchi talks us through what teaching is like, or has been like, including challenges and regrets that he's come to terms with over those 48 years. He's seen a lot of changes in California, not all worth celebrating (to say the least). But he's maintained a faithfulness to the Logic-teaching ministry to Christ and Culture in California by the grace of God, and we are so grateful for God's grace to us, through him, and for spending time with us today on this episode.
The Republican Professor is a pro-effectively-teaching-Logic-to-the-younger-generation, pro-decades-of-faithful-service, pro-mentoring-new-professors, pro-deadpan-dry-humor-in-the-morning podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. David Ciocchi, Ph.D., professor of Logic for 48 years at Biola University, Lost Angeles County, California.
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
This episode was co-hosted by TheRepublicanProfessor.com co-founder and former student of Dr. Ciocchi, Kurtis Olson.
Our guest today is Monique Duson. She grew up in South Central Lost Angeles, California and attended Biola University in Lost Angeles County where she majored in Sociology. She spent years in the social services profession. An Obama voter, and pro-choice on abortion, she was a missionary in South Africa for several years, returning in 2018 during the Trump administration.
Monique spends nearly 3 hours with The Republican Professor podcast to talk about her story growing up in LA, about her changing attitudes toward what is sometimes called "Critical Race Theory". But we discuss as well what she calls the alternative CRT conclusions or assumptions which is Biblical in its explanations, directed toward unity in the image of God, as opposed racial unity. Monique, in her words, has grown in wisdom, has come to change some of her views from years past, and seeks to help others in their journey of discovery, growth, and change centered in how the Bible sees us.
We talk about what is "the black community," what "representation" is for an individual for a group, how she feels about the US flag, how she feels about America, how she feels about the current Vice President versus how she felt about Senator Obama, and yes, I ask her what she thinks about Trump. We talk about what a "racist" is, what the harm in racism is (many don't seem to have thought carefully about this, nor seem to be prepared to give a clear, accurate answer to the question), about "Black Lives Matter," and whether the unborn black human being should have the same value, inherent worth, and dignity in the eyes of the law as George Floyd.
The Center for Biblical Unity is a relatively recently established non-profit devoted to helping shed harmful assumptions or conclusions about race and disparity, and about what real justice is and what it is not.
For more information on the Center and how you can support its mission, check out https://www.centerforbiblicalunity.com/
The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-so-called-Critical-Race-Theory, pro-unity-in-the-imago-dei-not-race, pro-life-including-of-course-black-life, pro-abolition-of-slavery, pro-black-economic-liberty-as-part-of-the-original-Republican-purpose-of-the-Civil-Rights-Act-of-1866-response-to-Democrat-black-codes, pro-grappling-with-the-implications-of-God's-Word, pro-acknowledging-and-correcting-American-problems, pro-real-honest-legit-talk-about-race-and-justice podcast.
Therefore, welcome Monique Duson, of South Central LA, Co-Founder of the Center for Biblical Unity !
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Dr. Glenn Elmers, Ph.D. has written a definitive biography, based on a wide swath of primary sources (innumerable letters, publications, other writings) of the late great Dr. Harry Jaffa, Ph.D.
It's called "The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America."
Jaffa was a preeminent scholar of the birth of the Republican Party, what that had to do with the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and before that classical philosophy, Jerusalem, the end of slavery in America, as well its enduring relevance to the modern disputes over the nature and size of the administrative state, e.g., during the Republican Convention at Cow Palace, San Fransisco in 1964.
Love him or hate him, it's impossible to be indifferent to the man and the weighty issues he made the subject of his life's work.
Dr. Glenn Elmers has done the careful spade work and shares it gladly on this special July 4th episode of The Republican Professor (2022).
Please support your local bookstore. If you must , here is a link to the book on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Politics-Harry-Jaffa-America/dp/164177200X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+soul+of+politics+harry+v.+jaffa&qid=1656706654&sprefix=the+soul+of+poli%2Caps%2C524&sr=8-1
The Republican Professor is a pro-rightly-contemplating-the-nexus-of-Philosophy-and-American-Politics, pro-correctly-articulating-the-nature-of-the -Constitution-given-the-Declaration, pro-ending-slavery, pro-birth-of-the-Republican-Party, pro-man-myth-legend-Harry-v-Jaffa-warts-and-all podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Glenn Ellmers, Ph.D., Harry V. Jaffa biographer !
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
One of America's newest citizens, Danka Kissell, a proud gun owner (.357 magnum) who was born and raised under Russian sponsored Communism (Slovakia), comes on TRP podcast to talk a bit about what life was like under Communism in her childhood, how America, or the promise of America's design, is different, what kind of revolver she has now, and more.
For instance, she lives in New Jersey, and she says some things she's seen on the East Coast give her PTSD by reminding her of the very real Communism of her youth.
The Republican Professor is a pro-new-American-citizen, pro-becoming-a-citizen-the-right-way, pro-taking-the-oath-seriously, pro-learning-the-right-lessons-from-Communism, pro-responsible-gun-ownership podcast.
Therefore, welcome Danka Kissell, newly minted United States citizen, having been born in Communism who now owns a .357 magnum (a Smith & Wesson, I found out shortly after the interview).
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
David McCrery works on an oil rig, but for 23 years he did law enforcement in California, including years with SWAT, violent crime suppression unit, child crimes, and homicide crime scene investigator. He's seen things no one should have to see as a normal course of his day. And he's admitted he needs help healing from this, and is getting professional help as well as working toward creating spaces for men to heal.
We do discuss gun control, fyi.
Good police want people to be empowered to defend themselves effectively.
You can reach out to David at dave.mccrery@nationofchampions.org
Their Facebook group is Facebook.com/groups/THVChampions
He also does gold and silver investing at 7kmetals.com/mccrery
The Republican Professor is a pro-manly-man, pro-men-who-are-traumatized-finding-healing, pro-good-law-enforcement, pro-getting-real-about-community, pro-Second-Amendment-and-cops-who-get-the-Second-Amendment podcast.
Therefore, welcome David McCrery, 23 year police veteran.
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
The Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia University (New York City) Law School joins The Republican Professor podcast in this episode to alert us to the newest form of regulatory manipulative control used by the federal Administrative State (it's also at the state and local level), described chillingly yet simply for non-lawyers in his newest book, "Purchasing Submission" (Harvard University Press, 2021).
The subtitle of the wonderfully clear book is "Conditions, Power, and Freedom." As the title indicates, the book is about government control by purchased "consent", often using private actors as third-parties. Is it really consent, and therefore, okay ? As Professor Hamburger so aptly explains in this TRP episode, this form of Administrative control is actually quite harmful and therefore, rightly disturbing. Much of this type of regulation by purchase of consent, moreover, is probably unConstitutional.
In addition to his teaching duties there in New York City at the Law School of Columbia University (Harlem), Professor Hamburger is the Chief Executive Officer of New Civil Liberties Alliance, an organization that engages in healthy, Constitutional resistance to the harmful effects of what passes as Administrative "Law."
Professor Hamburger told me off camera that they are litigating Second Amendment issues as well, for example, with the bump stock rule-making-based ban. (That criminalized innocent conduct overnight under the guise of administrative "law"). And the organization works on much more besides.
You can find out more information and support this resistance to insidious governmental manipulation and overreach by visiting their website : https://nclalegal.org/
https://nclalegal.org/philip-hamburger/
The book can be found at your local book dealer. Please support community book stores !
If you must use the major River that will go unnamed, you can find the book here : https://www.amazon.com/Purchasing-Submission-Conditions-Power-Freedom/dp/0674258231/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=purchasing+submission&qid=1656099799&s=books&sprefix=purchasing+s%2Cstripbooks%2C179&sr=1-1 .
The Republican Professor is a pro-rightly-understanding-Administrative-"Law", pro-rightly-contemplating-real-Constitutional-law, anti-criminalization-of-innocent-conduct, pro-healthy-resistance-to-the-harmful-effects-of-the-newest-manipulative-schemes-of-the-Administrative-State podcast.
Therefore, welcome Philip Hamburger, Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia University (New York City) Law School !
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
"I am the biggest proponent of the Second Amendment there is," African American leather-jacket-wearing, Harley riding attorney MavEryck Stevenson told me outside of Neptunes Net in Malibu, California on a beautiful spring day in 2022. Cars were buzzing by on Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). "The Second Amendment is for EVERYBODY," he said. He very discreetly showed me his weapon and his permit after I introduced myself to him as the producer and host of The Republican Professor podcast, and asked him to come on. I'd seen his Second Amendment patch on his leather jacket and asked him about it.
A libertarian in political temperament and a Christian by religious heritage, an avid reader, curious about such things as "what is Budapest like this time of year?", MavEryck Stevenson became an attorney later in life. He sports a distinguished whitish gray beard, but looks as young as Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, except with the darker complexion of the drill sergeant in that film. A gentle, friendly demeanor, Stevenson is a loquacious raconteur. He's also an open book, as you'll see in this episode of The Republican Professor.
MavEryck has the distinct honor, or dishonor (I guess we'll see) of being the very first guest on TRP podcast that I just randomly went up to in California and asked onto the podcast (and that based little more than on what he was wearing at the time). And I did that as he stood near his Harley at Neptune's Net in Malibu, California off of PCH across from the beach in April of 2022.
MavEryck discusses many things, including his own involvement in the criminal justice system, his being pulled over in California by the police while armed (and black)(how do deal with that for those similarly situated), and advocates that more people apply, get training, and get approved for conceal carry licenses in California. It's far too difficult in some jurisdictions--the issuing agency has too much discriminatory discretion. That legal wiggle room for discriminatory discretion by issuing agencies is far too loose. That regulatory environment needs over-hall to bring it in line with shall issue protections for the natural rights of applicants who want to be trained and ready to defend themselves in public, as is their God-given right.
MavEryck does disclose what bikes he has , and what he carries exactly (revolver? semi-auto?),
The Law Offices of MavEryck Langford Stevenson, Esq. (https:www.mavlaw911.com) are in Beverly Hills and can be reached at the following phone number: (424) 281-7233 and at the following email address: mavlawforhire@gmail.com .
The Republican Professor is a pro-riding-Harleys-while-black-and-armed, pro-Second-Amendment-correctly-conceived-and-applied, pro-civil-liberties-are-for-everybody, pro-good-self-defense-training, pro-self-care-entails-the-possibility-of-self-defense, pro-non-criminalization-of-innocent-conduct podcast.
Join our warm and timely conversation with the author of the wise and compelling book "The Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness," Dr. Charles Kesler, Ph.D.
(A link to that book is available below).
Charles is a Harvard man. He studied at Harvard for all his degrees culminating in the Ph.D. in Government, and serves as the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, which in my humble view is the best member of the Consortium of The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California.
His prior books include Saving the Revolution, a Signet Classic edition of The Federalist Papers with his Introduction, and more recently a book on how to understand President Obama within the context of the different epochs of Progressivism/Liberalism called "I am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism." (Links to these books are available below).
Dr. Kesler also writes a regular editor's introduction to each issue of The Claremont Review of Books, which comes out four times a year, winter, spring, summer, and fall. Each short essay is beautifully written, often dryly humorous, always insightful and engaging. If you do not yet subscribe to the publication, in my correct view, you're missing out on delightful substance. For instance, one can read online if necessary, but the Review comes out in an attractive physical copy delivered by mail peppered with quality artwork, made of sturdy material, salted with the lighthearted depth that keeps one abreast of the times and yet moves one in deeper understanding and appreciation of truths past, present, and future. It has a timeliness and at the same time a timelessness about it.
In this TRP episode, Charles tells us what he means by "the two Constitutions": There's "The Founder's Constitution," and by contrast there's now, also "The Progressive's Constitution." They are not the same constitution, and thus must be distinguished. Doing so helps to unpack an explanation for political and cultural phenomena that might otherwise go unnoticed or misunderstood.
We more or less follow the outline of the book. Worth the price of the tome by itself, Dr. Kesler offers "What's Wrong With Conservativism." Included are thoughts about Reagan, Bush, and Trump, including an anecdote by your TRP host of sitting in Professor Kesler's class in Spring of 2016 as he predicted, early in the semester, to every undergraduate's astonishment, that Trump would beat Hillary (as well as a rationale).
The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-understanding-American-Politics, pro-coming-to-terms-with-what's-wrong-with-Conservativism, pro-more-deeply-appreciating-the-design-of-The-Founder's-Constitution-as-opposed-to-its-"Progressive"-alternative podcast.
Therefore, welcome Charles Kesler !
Though the book is available at your local brick and mortar bookstore, here's the Amazon link to Dr. Kelser's book "Crisis of the Two Constitutions": https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Two-Constitutions-Recovery-Greatness/dp/164177102X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=crisis+of+the+two+constitutions&qid=1655756321&s=books&sprefix=crisis+of+the+two+%2Cstripbooks%2C176&sr=1-1
Here's a link to Kesler's Signet Classic edition of The Federalist Papers, with helpful collated notes with the text of the Constitution: https://www.amazon.com/byAlexander-HamiltonThe-Federalist-Papers-Paperback/dp/B003212Y6W/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=the+federalist+papers+charles+kesler&qid=1655759499&s=books&sprefix=the+federa%2Cstripbooks%2C176&sr=1-4
This is the link to Professor Kesler's important precursor book on President Obama: https://www.amazon.com/Am-Change-Barack-Crisis-Liberalism/dp/006207296X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid&sr
And The Claremont Review of Books awaits your subscription for a modest price (compared to what you get) here: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Join our warm conversation with missionaries to the incredibly dangerous land of ... California. Abby and Michael Clark are missionaries to California, focusing specifically their efforts on beach culture, and volleyball , and specifically people training to be pro-beach-volleyball players.
This involves, interestingly enough as you'll see, simply being a family , married with children, living as best they can according to how they see God's design for marriage and the family (They believe that God created the entire world, every physical thing, from atoms to quasars and gravity, including people and the relationship of marriage, the most conducive to the flourishing of people from the time of conception to death). Turns out, just that alone, being a stable, Godly family, tends to draw a crowd and leads young people to want to be mentored by them.
Their trust in the Lord, as they would put it, has led them to the most expensive area in the United States, or one of them (Orange County, California), and they live almost entirely on the support of those who believe in the necessity of their mission and in the Clark's incredibly normatively-normal, yet counter-cultural example (because California is so in need of that--the normatively counter-cultural-normal example they provide). They home school their kids because they don't trust the public schools to do so correctly. They pastor young people. Yet, they also do not forsake attending church themselves. They observe the Sabbath and the commandments to the best of their ability under the guidance and help of the Holy Spirit, and the result has been, it has been and continues to be quite a ride. They have no regrets. (I asked them more than once).
If you'd like to support their work in the once great state of California, your tax-deductible gift can be given here : https://meigiving.org/donate/michaelandabby .
If you'd like to send a check to them by mail, the address and instructions for the memo line of your check are : "Missions Enablers International” and put CM3717 in the memo line and send it to: MEI | P.O. Box 2127 | Bentonville, AR 72712.
They are with Mission Enablers International and have a video they've made for such purposes of support here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cZcakvUOylO1Bkgp4zK5aQTlgjU0_Dum/view.
If you'd like to contact Abby and Michael Clark about their ministry in California for more information, you may send correspondence to : michaelandabbyclark@gmail.com
The Republican Professor is a pro-providing-a-normatively-normal-example, pro-living-abundantly-no-matter-how-much-you-have, pro-healthy-family, pro-beach-ministry, pro-living-by-faith-in-the-living-God podcast.
Therefore, welcome Abby and Michael Clark, missionaries to the state of California.
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Join our warm conversation with combat veteran Dr. Lance Robinson, Ph.D., retired Lt. Col. (USAF) combat aviator and former Professor of Government at the US Air Force Academy, author of "Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft: The Constitutional Foundations of the Modern Presidency" in Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, eds., The Constitutional Presidency (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), pp. 76-95.
Lance opens up about his long and distinguished career in the United States Air Force, including flying combat missions over Iraq. He earned a Masters and Ph.D. degree while active duty and taught American Government at the United States Air Force Academy.
The Republican Professor is a pro-military-service, pro-getting-degrees-while-active-duty, pro-understanding-the-so-called-Progressive-movement-rightly, pro-accurately-grasping-the-Constitutional-presidency podcast.
Therefore, Welcome, Dr. Lance Robinson, Ph.D., retired Lt. Col. and professor for the United States Air Force.
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Chris Wolfe is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. We discuss our experience as Adjunct Professors and ways to combat grade inflation, among other topics in Higher Education.
The Republican Professor is a pro-doing-Higher-Education-right, anti-grade-inflation, pro-not-coddling-lazy-student-entitlement podcast.
Welcome, Dr. Chris Wolfe, Ph.D. !
The Republican Professor Podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Join our warm conversation with the (pro-bono) president of the 140-year old historic California Rifle and Pistol Association (he does not take a salary for the position), Chuck Michel.
Chuck is a very successful Civil Rights attorney in Lost Angeles County who prevailed at the 9th Circuit in the initial 3 judge panel, a panel that issued an opinion that is FAMOUS in California for being persuasively argued, masterfully written opinion of the Court by Judge O'SCANNLAIN in Peruta v. County of San Diego in 2014 (a Right to Bear Arms case, conceal carry). That opinion was predictably reversed en banc only by ignoring the merits of the 3 judge panel opinion of the Court. Here's a link to that decision and you can read it for yourself to see: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16699306652731612622&q=peruta+v+county+of+san+diego+&hl=en&as_sdt=2003
Chuck is probably nationally famous as the California "Freedom Week" attorney, which, if you don't know, within the span of a few days in 2019, brought 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines into California. Michel was the prevailing attorney in that nationally famous California "Freedom Week" District Court victory in 2019, where the Court issued a wonderfully persuasive, masterfully argued Finding of Fact and Opinion of the Court Duncan v. Becerra (366 F. Supp. 3d 1131 - Dist. Court, SD California 2019). At issue there was the unConstitutionality of California's arbitrary and capricious 10-round magazine limitation. In this episode, Chuck reads the tea leaves, so to speak on the upcoming Right to Bear Arms (RTBA) case at the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)(expected any day now) and what the California Attorney General will probably advise the recalcitrant jurisdictions to do in order to obstruct the implementation of the likely ruling. We all want to pay very careful attention, here. One can support the California Rifle and Pistol Association tax-deductible educational foundation by making your book purchases through AmazonSmile, indicating you'd like to pick Jeff Bazos' pocket by designating a charity to support. It doe not raise the price one pays for the book. Books referenced in this episode are "Gun Truths: How Gun Laws Fail", as was Chuck's book, "California Gun Laws: A Guide to State and Federal Firearms Regulation" 2022 9th Edition. Last, for an insider's perspective on how surviving a mass murder in San Fransisco changed one attorney's perspective on self-defense, see "Coming to Terms: A Mass Shooting Survivor's Reckoning with Vulnerability and Self-Defense" with Forward written by Chuck. For more information about California Rifle and Pistol Association, check out : https://crpa.org/ For information on Chuck's boutique Long Beach law firm, check out : https://michellawyers.com/ For links to the major California-based, very persuasively written, masterfully argued, and influentially received Second Amendment opinions rendered by federal judges and mentioned above, check out : Peruta v. County of San Diego (2014) (persuasive 3-judge panel Opinion of the Court) : 742 F. 3d 1144 - Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2014. And the persuasive, beautifully written, masterfully argued nationally famous "Freedom Week" Federal District Court opinion that brought in about 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines in less than a week to California, Duncan v. Becerra, 366 F. Supp. 3d 1131 - Dist. Court, SD California 2019. The 3-judge panel opinion reviewing that trial court opinion at the 9th Circuit is also well-worth reading (Duncan v. Becerra, 970 F. 3d 1133 - Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2020), all available on Google Scholar. The Republican Professor is a pro-self-defense, pro-shooting-sports, anti-criminalization-of-innocent-conduct, pro-Constitutional-law-rightly-understood, pro-natural-rights-protected-by-positive-law, pro-education, pro-gun-safety-public-safety podcast. Therefore, welcome Chuck Michel The Republican Professor is hosted and produced by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Join our warm and insightful conversation with spiritual abuse expert and author Dale Fincher.
Some prefer to stay in the shallow end of the pool, but not Fincher. Today, Dale gently leads us confidently to wade into the deeper spiritual and emotional waters of healthy Second Amendment activism. Dale makes insightful connections to the reality and pervasiveness of spiritual abuse in the Gun Control/Gun "Safety" world. The current Second Amendment debate might take a second to absorb what Fincher says here. Spiritual abuse involves a manipulative, shame-based, gaslighting distortion of ourselves and of who God is under the guise of religious or moral authority.
Dale Fincher is an expert in Spiritual Abuse identification and recovery. A survivor of spiritual abuse himself, after his graduate Seminary training in Philosophy he founded and served as president for many years a soul-care non-profit dedicated to helping victims of spiritual abuse find healing and spiritual recovery.
Fincher is author of the delightful book "Living With Questions" (available on the Nile or Mississippi or your local book dealer, for instance, here : https://www.amazon.com/Living-Questions-invert-Dale-Fincher/dp/0310276640 ) and makes his home in a two-century-old home in New England. He runs the Instagram and Twitter accounts @Voiceofthe2nd that aims to link many of the insights from spiritual abuse recovery to the cultural and political moment that we face today. Fincher aims in his work to foster a genuinely reflective, spiritually authentic, emotionally healthy, robust and resilient Second Amendment activism.
For more information, check out his website https://www.dalefincher.com
The Republican Professor is a pro-Spiritual-Health, pro-emotional health, pro-robust-and-reslient-Second-Amendment-activism, pro-genuinely-reflective, pro-spiritually-authentic podcast.
Therefore, welcome back Dale Fincher, @Voiceofthe2nd (on Instagram and Twitter)
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Join our warm and timely conversation with the prevailing attorney in the seminal U. S. Supreme Court gun control decision Printz v. United States, 521 US 898 (1997) and the author of the book we discuss today, "Gun Control and the Third Reich" (2013).
Why do Socialists like Gun Control ? Why did the National Socialists (Nazis) like Gun Control? How did they use "public safety" reasoning to implement it? What was the result of that process ? How well-documented is this ? Today is an interview with the prevailing attorney in the seminal United States Supreme Court gun control decision, Printz v. United States in 1997, Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D.. Halbrook in unique among successful attorneys in that he approaches his Second Amendment work from a scholarly perspective, not merely an adversarial, litigious one. Dr. Halbrook has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida State University as well as his law degree from Georgetown, and is the author of a number of serious books. The book we discuss in this episode is "Gun Control and the Third Reich," a particularly sobering view of the key role that gun control played in National Socialism of the Nazis rise and maintenance of power in Europe, with disastrous consequences for the innocent parties targeted by the government by the criminal law for reasons of "public safety." The book is based on primary sources in German, and is richly footnoted. The book is a careful study in the well-documented danger that government can pose to individual liberty in the name of "public safety," with great cost to innocent people's liberty, their dignity, their property and ultimately innocent human life itself.
You can purchase the book at your local bookseller (please support your local brick and mortar bookstores), or from the Oakland, California-based think tank that published it, The Independent Institute, here : https://www.independent.org/guncontrol/
The Republican Professor is a pro-study-of-History, pro-natural-right-to-self-defense, pro-self-care, pro-self-care-entails-self-defense, pro-limited-government, pro-individual-liberty, pro-respecting-people-not-abusing-them, pro-Second-Amendment, pro-true-public-safety podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D.!
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Join our warm conversation with Impact 360's Dr. John Basie, Ph.D. He's been in teaching and Higher Education Administration for going on 2 decades.
Dr. Basie did his Ph.D. degree in Religion, Politics, and Society at the Baylor University Institute for Church-State Studies, the premier place in the world to study First Amendment religion, culture, and government issues at that time. He now directs Impact 360 Institute, in Pine Mountain, Georgia, affiliated with Union University in Jackson, Tennessee for undergraduate work. For graduate work, their work is partnered with North Greenville University (South Carolina). Both are COC SAC (regionally) (legit) accredited.
It's a program that has been rightly influenced by the deep and wonderful life-work of the late great scholar of Christian Philosophy and Spiritual Formation, Dr. Dallas Willard, Ph.D., who taught our mentors at the University of Southern California for many decades, and did it right and was a model for doing it right for our professors and mentors. Major funding for the founding of the Institute came from the Chik-Fil-A family.
You can check out the program at https://www.impact360institute.org/
The Republican Professor is a pro-Chik-Fil-A, pro-Higher-Education-done-right, pro-do-something-a-little-differently-in-order-to-do-it-right, pro-conscientiously-taking-the-student-soul-seriously, pro-education-infuenced-by-Dallas-Willard podcast .
Welcome, Dr. John Basie, Ph.D. !
Join our warm conversation with retired Santa Barbara City College Professor of Logic and actor friend of Charleton Heston, the endlessly fascinating Dr. Mark McIntire.
He takes us on a wild journey through his background in New England, embracing the Catholic Church, learning Latin in high-school from nuns, his uncanny impression of John F. Kennedy, Jr (seriously, the very best I've ever seen), studying Philosophy and Law at very old universities in Rome (one of his professors was Joseph Ratzinger), then leaving the Catholic Church, getting Ed Asner fired from the Screen Actors Guild in California, his friendship with movie titan and civil liberties activist Charleton Heston, his long teaching career ending in retirement from Santa Barbara City College, where he fought the corrupt grade-inflating swamp administrators and Socialist/Communist grade-inflating faculty who tried to get him fired for not being a Socialist.
Now Mark, in retirement, still gives back to his community through online education for homeschoolers, for adult learners looking to get what they never got, or to shore up what they once had. He runs a website designed for helping people think critically based on his several decades of college teaching experience in that exact area.
Listen to him doing an incredible performance as JFK, Jr decades ago : https://vimeo.com/88400045?fbclid=IwAR2bNRcUbDmDSP36ukRzv2_pKSp1n6NAshTRJfPsdKSGTRkeGIZlW-a90-g
The Republican Professor is a pro-Critical-Thinking, pro-Learning-Latin-and-Logic, pro-Charleton-Heston, pro-scary-good-impressions-of-famous-people, pro-standing-up-to-swamp-administrators, pro-standing-up-to-the-Corrupt-Communists, pro-true-higher-education podcast .
Here is a news story about Dr. McIntire : https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/10/19/how-a-professor-who-lost-his-job-for-being-conservative-fought-back-and-won/?fbclid=IwAR1d2RPIJhOXzXbEPDw1iRnT9C8Mim9CuGPu3eU4AVGRsfh9GXcnMvBFlsk
Welcome, Dr. Mark McIntire !
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
The Daily Wire produced a film about a proper response to school murder, and our next guest on TRP podcast is someone who's worked on Daily Wire film sets. She was the assistant to the Director for the last film they did with Gina Carano and she and others with Daily Wire have YEARS of experience in TV and Film in Lost Angeles on hit shows and films.
What's it like being a conservative in that environment ?
How's a Daily Wire film set any different ?
You will find out on this next episode of The Republican Professor. Meet the artistic film industry veteran Molly Morey !
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The Republican Professor is a pro-free-speech, pro-having-integrity-in-the-work-place, pro-healthy-creative-artistic-expression, pro-respecting-other-people's-rights podcast.
Welcome, Molly Morey !
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Join our warm conversation with the Associate Dean of the Bellarmine College of Conservative oops I mean College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Brad Elliott Stone, Ph.D, on the shift he made from full tenured Professor to Administration, why he made the shift (is it really more money ?) on the goal of reducing unproductive, expensive Administrative Bloat, and how his backstory growing up on a farm in rural, small town Kentucky shaped him as a person, a professor and as an administrator.
Brad shares with us what helps keep him sane (he has a piano in his office, and can play), how he developed a love of books and a respect for languages early on in life (and how that helped him while living and studying in Europe), whether they had guns in Kentucky (I had to ask) and what for and what rural life was like for him there, including the special role his brother played as his childhood companion, and more besides !
These intriguing and delightful snapshots into Dr. Stone are integrated into a compelling whole picture of how he uniquely approaches life as a professor-turned-Administrator.
For instance, what if anything can the faculty do to save the Academy from being reduced to the Higher Educational Industrial Complex (as it were) ? Can anything be done as an Administrator/Educator to make the Academy more healthy , more true to its high calling?
Bellarmine College of Conservative Arts is at my (Dr. Mather's) alma mater, Loyola Marymount University in Lost Angeles, California, where I myself taught for over a decade as well.
The Republican Professor is a pro-saving the Academy, pro-reducing-Administrative-Bloat, pro-healthy-rural-childhood-memories, pro-love-of-books-and-languages, pro-creating-healthy-campuses-for-the-life-of-the-mind podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Brad Elliott Stone, Ph.D., Associate Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, full tenured Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Join our warm conversation with our distinguished guest, the Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism at Claremont McKenna College, part of The Claremont Colleges Consortium, Dr. Ralph Rossum, Ph.D. Professor Rossum taught the American Founding with the late Antonin Scalia, and has a best-selling two-volume Constitutional Law textbook called American Constitutional Law (with Alan Tarr) which is in its at least 11th Edition as of this recording.
We discuss his powerful book "Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy" which is available at your local book dealer.
Dr. Rossum also takes some time to recount a few charming anecdotes of Antonin Scalia and of his supervisor at the University of Chicago, the late scholar of the American Founding (especially the Anti-Federalists), Dr. Herbert J. Storing, Ph.D.
The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-understanding-the-American-Founding, pro-correctly-contemplating-American-Constitutional-Law, pro-charming-anecdotes-of-great-scholars-and-Justices-of-the-Supreme-Court podcast.
Therefore, welcome Ralph Rossum.
The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
Join our warm conversation with USMC infantry (Iraq) veteran Matthew Kirby, who brings his Seminary training to bear on today's discussion which is Christians and Gun Control. We take a look at "God, Guns, and America" written by Dr. Mike Austin who graduated from the same Seminary that Matt and I did. But Austin's conclusions are drastically at odds with our own, and we discuss how that could be, and is, so. The basic difference is: some Christians have no compunction criminalizing innocent conduct like genuine self-defense, or like being prepared for effective self-defense in public and in private.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Second-Amendment, pro-not-criminalizing-innocent-conduct podcast.
Welcome, Matthew Kirby !
Join our warm conversation with Jennye Biggelow , newly elected Executive Vice President of the California Republican Assembly.
Ronald Reagan called the California Republican Assembly the conscience of the Republican Party in California.
We talk local politics--Jennye spearheaded founding the Costa Mesa Republican Assembly chapter in her backyard there in Orange County.
The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-involved-in-local-politics, pro-grass-roots-politics, pro-understanding-your-community-needs, pro-California-Republican-Assembly podcast.
Therefore, welcome Jennye Bigelow, Vice President, California Republican Assembly.
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She's a Home-Based Education advocate and mom going up against a Bernie-supporter endorsed by Trump. She's got her work cut out for her but isn't backing down an inch. Meet the lovingly fierce Heidi St. John, candidate for US Congress in Washington state.
For more information about her and to check out her wildly popular podcast with over a million downloads a month, check out http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts
The Republican Professor is a pro-true-education, pro-Home-based-education-done-right, pro-don't-back-down, pro-lovingly-fierce-candidate podcast.
Welcome, Heidi St. John !
Join our warm conversation with long-time Business & Marketing professor Dr. Tom Buckles, Ph.D., as we discuss the educational enterprise as illuminated in his distinguished teacher career.
The Republican Professor is a pro-business, pro-entrepreneur, pro-learning-from-long-experience, pro-education-done-right podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Tom Buckles, Ph.D. !
Join our warm conversation with enthusiastic, incredibly well-informed home-schooling advocate and mother, Jessica Wilkinson. Jessica brings a passionate clear-mindedness to the issue of home-based education like few others.
The Republican Professor is a pro-true-education, pro-home-based-education-done-right, pro-children-flourishing, pro-parental-involvement podcast.
Therefore, welcome Jessica Wilkinson !
Join our warm, in-depth discussion of CAPT William Palmer, USN's United States Navy career from the time he enlisted and was sent to an elite Army base to learn Chinese Mandarin to being promoted three decades later to full-bird Navy captain (equivalent to Army colonel), one below one-star rear admiral . Learn how he was awarded the Bronze Star in Iraq, and where our paths crossed so many years ago.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Navy, pro-Chinese-linguist, pro-serving-the-true-meaning-of-America podcast.
Welcome William Palmer, United States Navy !
Join our warm conversation with a rising Social Media legend who brings us the latest News soaked in prayer, baptized in the River Jordan, Lance Wallnau, Sr.
He's got a million people following him on social media, up over 1900% in the last 7 years. He's famous for taking a simple iPhone and going Live on Facebook, holding it with his arm extended, for 40 + minutes, with the equivalent of a packed out Super Bowl stadium tuning in at some point during the broadcast. Each broadcast is archived for later viewing.
Lance is a businessman, a man of the marketplace, a teacher, an author, with the heart of a minister of the Lord who in his free time helps his wife with a Christian ministry to single mothers in need of physical necessities.
Lance Sr works hard to get the news right, to get what needs to be gotten out to his viewers, to correct for "mainstream" lamestream error, bias, or omission, adding insightful, hopeful, optimistic commentary from a Spiritual point of view.
The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-the-News-right, pro-correcting-for-lamestream-media-bias-or-omission-or-error, pro-helping-single-mothers-in-great-need podcast.
Therefore, welcome Lance Wallnau, Sr !
Teaching 2nd Amendment Constitutional Law at the shooting range is an obvious compliment to firearms training and safety, according to America's Constitutional Coach Rick Green.
Join our warm conversation with America's Constitution Coach, Founder of Patriot Academy Rick Green, who also is a former Texas state legislator and radio host on Wall Builders Live. He also teaches Constitutional Law at the Front Sight Firearms Training Facility in Nevada, the NRA Whittington Center in New Mexico (among other places).
For more information, check out https://www.patriotacademy.com/
The Republican Professor is a pro-Constitution, pro-understanding-the-founding, anti-slavery, pro-Second-Amendment podcast.
Therefore, welcome Rick Green !
Join our warm conversation with Santa Monica College History professor Dr. David Byrne, Ph.D., author of "Ronald Reagan: An Intellectual Biography" published by the University of Nebraska Press.
It's available from the Missippippi here : https://www.amazon.com/Ronald-Reagan-Intellectual-David-Byrne/dp/1640120033/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=reagan%27s+intellectual+history&qid=1650397940&sr=8-1
The Republican Professor is a pro-Ronald-Reagan, pro-intellectual-history, pro-understanding-the-presidency podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. David Byrne !
Should we call God Mother ? Should we fear God ? Is hell real ? Are the books in the Bible the right books? How do we know ? What are the essentials of Christian faith ? Did the resurrection of Jesus really happen ? Is spanking kids inappropriate ? Dr. Cara Aspesi (M.A., Ph.D. from Notre Dame in early church history, liturgy & theology) joins us today for our special TRP Easter Episode 2022.
The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-church-history, pro-understanding-the-Bible, pro-naming-and-celebrating-Easter podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Cara Aspesi, Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame!
It's Easter weekend this weekend ! Happy Good Friday 2022, TRPers !
2022 years after what ?
After Jesus.
Today we have Dr. Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. to talk to us about the 2nd Edition of his monumental book, Christian Apologetics, 800+ pages comprehensively defending the the claim that one can know Christian truth claims about reality, claims such as, for example, that Jesus was killed, that he rose again, and atoned for the sins of any who would place their trust in him.
Here we have a bit of the human story behind the book, including the suffering the author has experienced in his own life.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Good-Friday, pro-understanding-and-appreciating-and-naming-Easter podcast.
Therefore, welcome Dr. Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. !
President of National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) Dr. Brian Ray, Ph.D. sat down with us to describe his research on Home-Based Education as an alternative and competitor to public schools.
You can find out more by checking out : https://www.nheri.org/
The Republican Professor is a pro-real-education podcast.
Welcome, Dr. Brian Ray !
There is no one in Southern California quite like California fishing and hunting expert Wendy Tochihara. This delightful daughter of World War 2 Japanese Internment Camp parents calls Huntington Beach, California her home, where she raises chickens, her own vegetables, and has five freezers full of meat from various hunting expeditions around California (and sometimes beyond). And she's not afraid to wear her MAGA hat, either. Nor is her mom.
She's pro-Second Amendment, pro-sustainable fishing & hunting, passionate about the outdoors and about how California once was and could be again if the politics reversed course.
(Although the Second Amendment is about self-defense and protection of innocent human life, not about hunting and fishing).
The Republican Professor is a pro-Second-Amendment, pro-hunting-&-fishing, pro-optimistic-MAGA-hat-wearing-former-Japanese-Internment-Camp-Prisoners's-daughter podcast.
By the way--it was the Democrats who issued that military Japanese-US-citizen exclusion order during World War 2, you know that, right ? She does.
Therefore, welcome Wendy Tochihara !
Join our warm conversation with local, vintage bestselling author Cliff Shiepe, author of the novel, "Cliff Falls."
Self-published over a decade ago, it's touched many lives in many different contexts.
We talk about LA, his writing process, and true spirituality. Ultimately, we are all looking for True Belonging, True Acceptance. These ultimate issues are what his book is really about.
He's coming out with a second novel next year. But he doesn't give any hints as to what it might be about , so you'll just have to keep checking Vromans in Pasadena or your local bookshop to satisfy your curiosity.
If you prefer to shop online because the last two years of public health panic has devestated small businesses, including bookstores selling books, you can find the book on the Nile, the Ganges, or any other huge river from which one can buy books, e.g. :https://www.amazon.com/Cliff-Falls-C-B-Shiepe/dp/0982702027/ref=sr_1_1?crid=123SEGIYJZ5DY&keywords=cliff+falls+shiepe&qid=1649372022&sprefix=cliff+falls+shiep%2Caps%2C336&sr=8-1
The Republican Professor is a pro-creative-writing, pro-self-publishing, pro-True-Spirituality podcast.
Therefore, welcome Cliff Shiepe !
Logicians are trained to pay close attention to the definitions of terms. For instance, in Patrick J. Hurley's Concise Introduction to Logic, chapter 2 is entirely about definitions. Definitions are a big deal. (Logic is a field of the discipline called Philosophy. Definitions are very important for the other fields, too).
In law (I have a Masters in Philosophy, a Ph.D. in Public Law & American Politics, taught both Con Law and Logic), philosophy's love for definitions helps.
Here is a conversation about what the word "woman" means. We could have picked other terms. Unlike all of the other words here on this description, some people think we need to redefine the term for political and/or moral reasons.The best correct definitions are those that provide necessary and sufficient conditions (in non-stipulative contexts). (A "stipulation" is just an agreement, like on a contract, or statute, of what a word means in a technical, limited sense). New gender terms that aren't merely stipulative suffer from a basic deficiency: they have trouble on their own terms respecting their own goals of inclusion and diversity rooted in self-identification . This is a pretty basic problem. And a lot of people can easily see it for exactly what it is.
Let’s call this revisionist view the Self ID view. This new attempted definition of an old word, says Logic Professor Dr. Tomas Bogardus, Ph.D., gives neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for being a real woman. And no matter how you feel about social justice or moral requirements, this is a persistent problem for the revisionist Self ID view of what a woman really is. It does no good to try to manipulate people out of seeing this problem for what it is using shame techniques that are themselves as old as time. People can think for themselves. People can see the manipulation for what it is, and false shaming is no true key to a correct definition of any term.
This new movement to incorporate Self-ID into the cutting edge definition of the term “woman” inevitably doesn't satisfy necessary and sufficient conditions. The classical definition for woman in classic, standard hard-copy dictionaries says a real woman is an adult, human female. Let's call that the Classical View. English is very old. That old definition does give a plausible, internally consistent set of both necessary and sufficient conditions for what all and only women are, but is considered defective by recent revisionists for alleged reasons of ethical failure.
We're in a real pickle if the classical definition meets the philosophical requirement for a good definition, but we are morally prohibited (we are told) from continuing to adopt it. Doesn't morality require us to be sensitive to truth in definitions?
Or does morality require us to change definitions, even if they don't provide truthful cognitive connection with the meaning of the term ? Because the new, cutting edged proposals for revising what the term “woman” means fails a standard test of the best, correct definitions, doesn’t it suffer from a fatal flaw? That flaw would be: the Self-ID revisionist view doesn’t tell us what the word really means. It doesn’t pick out all and only women in an internally, logically consistent way.
Revisionist gender theorists are working to avoid the classical definition, but at what philosophical cost? How do we know these new, alleged demands of social justice really are binding on our old definitions in the way asserted ?
Dr. Tomas Bogardus, Ph.D., who teaches Logic along with other courses in Philosophy at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, takes us through his careful writing on this topic, including a history of the debate of these matters. You can view his scholarly papers on his website here : https://sites.google.com/site/tbogardus/
The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-reality, pro-getting-correct-and-accurate-definitions-of-terms podcast.
Therefore, welcome Tomas Bogardus !
Join our warm conversation with local school board official from rural Ohio Karen Slabaugh Humprhies. Just before she ran for School Board, she'd been in the classrooms of the district as the lowest paid employee, a substitute Teacher's Aid. She got an up-close look at what the district was really facing, including in the Special Education classrooms.
Karen had a decade of experience prior to that as a local reporter covering the beat of the Board meetings and other issues in local politics and culture.
These first-hand experience fit like a glove with the vocational call she sensed coming from the Lord: Run, and you'll win.
She went from a substitute Teacher's Aid to running for School Board and winning, all with just a high school diploma.
Well, not just a high school diploma.
She may have had a little help from on high.
The Republican Professor is a pro-local-school-board, pro-parents-getting-involved, pro-true-education podcast.
Therefore, welcome Karen Slabaugh Humphries !
Join us as we talk about boundaries in emotionally healthy relationships with our special guest today, the man behind @Voiceofthe2nd on Instagram, philosopher and writer Dale Fincher.
Fincher joins us from his 200 year old home in New Hampshire to journey into some of the deeper aspects of Second Amendment activism and advocacy. He uses Instagram to prompt longer form thoughts on reality, using the medium to post quotes that call out for more careful analysis.
Dale has experienced emotional abuse himself, as well as the kind of organizational disfunction that so often causes or accompanies it. That background, plus his graduate training in logic and philosophy, has prepared him well to the work of healthy integration of our need for a coherent life in boundary-respecting relationship with others.
Part of our relationships is the relationship we have with the government. A government that does not respect the boundaries of your private space to protect yourself from harm is a dysfunctional, harmful, boundary-crossing, abusive relationship.
The Republican Professor is a pro-emotionally healthy, pro-spiritually-healthy, pro-healthy-boundary-relationships, and pro-Second-Amendment podcast. Therefore, welcome @Voiceofthe2nd on Instagram's Dale Fincher !
Join our conversation today with Jeffrey Tucker of Acton Institute, formerly of the von Mises Institute, founder of The Brownstone Institute, and author of "Liberty or Lockdown" with forward by George Gilder, available at your local bookstore, meaning Amazon, since the lock-down killed a huge percentage of small businesses, but it's available here : https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Lockdown-Jeffrey-Tucker/dp/1630692123/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
We discuss the pandemic, how the response was alarming and totally at odds with traditional public health measures, economic liberty, limited government. Eventually, we discuss Bitcoin from a very simple basic starting point.
You can read a selection of Tucker's work on Bitcoin here :
https://www.aier.org/article/why-does-bitcoin-have-value/
You can read a selection of Tucker's work on the recent public health panic here :
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-inflation-disaster-is-collateral-damage-from-lockdowns/
The Republican Professor is a pro-liberty, anti-lockdown-for-no-good-reason, pro-deliberative-democracy, pro-Constitutional-republic, pro-traditional-public-health-that-respects-natural-rights podcast.
Therefore, welcome Jeffrey Tucker !
Join our conversation with Dr. Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., former full Professor at NYU. Dr. Rectenwald authored last December's (2021) Imprimis piece called "The Great Reset" published by Hillsdale College.
Michael takes us through what it was like teaching at NYU (which is in New York). He was there for over a decade.
But the wokeness and PC stuff began , slowly, to make him feel like he was under the thumb of a totalitarian culture crushing free thought. He began to realize it took more and more courage just to believe his own beliefs instead of the beliefs that he was supposed to believe.
This came to a head in 2016, the Fall. That semester, he was punished for his beliefs, for his commitment to academic excellence, which requires Free Speech. He was removed, without adequate cause, from the classroom 4 weeks into the semester. This mistreatment at the hands of the woke Leftists who run the campus spurred a conversion in every way.
In his words: "Let me just say this," he said, describing that crazy semester, "in September I was a Marxist. By November, I voted for Trump."
Part of the fuller story of his conversion was spiritual and philosophical (metaphysical). He went from being a metaphysical materialist (as Marxists are), or rather, functionally or methodologically one, to be more precise--he described himself as an agnostic--to a Christian believer. Part of this journey involved the healing of his son's stage 4 cancer. This stuff we would have liked to get into more but it occurred at the very end, and we weren't able to follow this in any more detail due to time constraints.
We discuss grade inflation, his time at the Naropa Institute in Boulder under Allen Ginsberg (yes, the Allen Ginsberg) (I asked if they were a bunch of Republicans. He said, uh, no). (Shocker).
We discuss his graduate training and what conspiracy theories are , and whether a conspiracy theory involving human actors can adequately explain the concentration and character, the phenomenology of totalitarian forces that seem to be the data calling out for explanation.
The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-conspiracy-theories , pro-conversion-from-Marxism, pro-Free-Speech and pro-academic-excellence, pro-understanding-what-is-the-great-reset? podcast.
Therefore, welcome Michael Rectenwald !
Join our conversation with the University of California at Berkeley's Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law John Yoo, author of the very carefully argued "Defender in Chief: President Trump's Fight for Presidential Power." John has been teaching Law at Berkeley for nearly 30 years !
Could President Trump legitimately have fired Mueller ? Our guest today says, yes.
What about other issues related to presidential power ? Was the 45th president's vigorous (perhaps pre-theoretical or unconscious) defense of presidential power legitimate from the point of view of Article II of the U.S. Constitution? John Yoo says, to a large extent, yes.
John did not vote for Trump initially, but he nevertheless defends the "unitary executive" theory of the US Constitution, which simply says that the best explanation of the data of the text and history of the Constitution's creation of the presidency is that there is one, and should only be one person in charge of the executive branch. The Executive Branch was not designed to be run by bureaucrats who are unaccountable to the people in elections. It does not matter if those bureaucrats are "experts." Democratically unaccountable expertise is still democratically unaccountable.
Article II's first sentence is as follows : "The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States."
The executive power is not defined or "herein granted", as the text of Article I does with the legislative power.
It is vested in one person, elected by the whole nation, the president. That person alone is accountable to the American people in elections for the actions of the Executive Branch of the US government. And therefore, that one person should have control of the branch. That's the original, wise design.
So what Professor Yoo does here is take that as a good starting point for reflecting upon Trump's defense of presidential power and his official actions as president (not necessarily his use of Twitter). Grounded in a careful reading of Article II and the original design of the Presidency, as well as its history and tradition, John reflects on contemporary events related to presidential power. Such topics include law enforcement, immigration & the wall, war-fighting and the conduct of war, Trump's approach to executive branch agency rule-making, his demand for the loyalty of the Executive Branch administrative state (the bureaucracy, what some call 'the Deep State"). Yoo also has chapters on the Electoral College and Trump's prerogative to shape the federal judiciary. For John, and the proper Constitutional check on the presidency is Congress and public opinion, not the Executive Branch turned on itself. It's not surprising that those are the levers that went into action--that's the proper design of the US Constitution.
So could Trump have fired Mueller ? Yes, because Mueller was in the Executive Branch, performing executive functions, but only the President has a duty to "Take Care that the Laws be Faithfully Executed." There is no rival, junior varsity chief law enforcement officer of the United States.
John gives us a glance as to what it's like teaching in Berkeley, what it's like to live there, whether and to what extent there is grade inflation there and at the Harvard he attended before.
And how ought we understand some issues related to January 6th of last year ?
Join our warm conversation here.
Professor Yoo's book is available for purchase on the Nile, the Ganges, the Mississippi, or whatever other great river from which one can purchase books, e.g., here : https://www.amazon.com/Defender-Chief-Donald-Trumps-Constitution/dp/1250269571/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28CNPDQK32LUZ&keywords=john+yoo&qid=1647988347&sprefix=john+yoo%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1
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The Republican Professor is a pro-Article-II, pro-correctly-understanding-Presidential-power podcast .
Therefore, welcome John Yoo !
Join our conversation with University of Toronto trained (Philosophy of Science and Technology) Peter Kupisz, a dual Czech and Canadian citizen who lives in the former Union of Soviet Social Republics, a country called Georgia (not the US state) near Ukraine.
Georgia is on the southeast coast of the Black Sea, whereas Ukraine is the north coast of the Black Sea, fyi.
Peter, like 007, is a secret agent against international atheism.He talks about graduate philosophy training in the United States and in Canada (University of Toronto), and together we talk about his ministry, cross cultural observations, stories from Japan and Indonesia, where he was one of the first Canadians to get COVID in the hospital in Jakarta.
We have a wide-ranging discussion which ends in wondering whether evil is evidence against God's existence or whether it's actually evidence for the existence of God, and to what extent one can do effective apologetics with Tik Tok.
Peter runs a new podcast called LIT. You can support that effort by visiting Peter's homepage at https://www.worldviewsummit.org/ It focuses on generating very interesting short episodes designed to get folks to think about truth in spiritual things.
The Republican Professor is a pro-international-man-of-spiritual-things-mystery-007 podcast and a pro-apologetics podcast.
Therefore, welcome Peter Kupisz !
Don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube channel "The Republican Professor." You can watch the Youtube version here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CUKPFBrFi0
Dr. Sanjay Merchant joins us from Chicago today. His expertise is the logic and historical, theological data for the Trinity.
Ever thought that the Trinity was puzzling or incoherent? How does it stack up with rival conceptions of God, for instance, from Islam and Judaism? Dr. Sanjay Merchant, Ph.D., suggests the oldest monotheistic tradition, which he calls Biblical Christianity, is Trinitarian in its theology. That is to say: there is only one God, who is maximally great, and part of maximal greatness is being in loving relationship, not contingently or merely temporally, but eternally, and this analytic point supports the Biblical data underlying the Trinity.
This conversation is not scripted. It's a real conversation that also touches upon aspects of American Politics.
The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-theology and pro-understanding-how-theology-relates-to-American Politics podcast.
Welcome Dr. Sanjay Merchant !
Join our conversation with veteran pro-life trainer, activist, and academic Scott Klusendorf as he walks us through some of his training he uses to prove the pro-life position.
"Syllogism, syllogism, syllogism," says Scott. It's the three most important words for proving the pro-life position. A syllogism is a deductive argument with two premises.
Premise 1: It is wrong to intentionally kill and innocent human being. Premise 2: Abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being. Therefore: Abortion is wrong.
The argument is valid. But it's also sound, according to Scott. The premises are true, and can be defended as such. Anyone can be trained to do so. That's what Scott has given his life to.
Scott talks about the LA he grew up in, what it was like back then to go to UCLA and Pierce College in the Valley (where I also taught), and ultimately to the story of what event got him initially involved in pro-life academics and activism.
Scott is teaching courses on argumentation and the abortion debate for credit at Cedarville University and South Florida Bible College this summer and also a similar course on crossexamined.org
For more information on how to support his work, check out https://www.lifetraininginstitute.com
The Republican Professor is a pro-defending-the-pro-life podcast.
Welcome, Scott Klusendorf !
How does the life-vision of Nietzsche compare and contrast to the life-vision of Jesus of Nazareth? Join us as Dr. Greg Ganssle, Ph.D., a former veteran instructor at Yale University's Philosophy Department, introduces us to that topic.
Along the way, we find out more about Greg's other books, the courses he's taught, where he teaches now, and a bit about serving regularly for years in a homeless ministry for the local church.
Greg is also co-founder and Board member of the Rivendell Institute at Yale University.
There are additionally a few anecdotes Dr. Ganssle shares from his professors Peter van Inwagen and William P. Alston.
Greg's first book is Thinking About God: First Steps in Philosophy, available on Mississippi, the Arkansas, the Ganges, or whatever other river you normal buy books on, e.g., here : https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-About...
Ganssle's latest book is Our Deepest Desire: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human Aspiration, available on the Nile here : https://www.amazon.com/Our-Deepest-De...
The Republican Professor is a pro-understanding-the-difference-between-Nietzsche-and-Jesus podcast.
Welcome, Dr. Greg Ganssle !
Join our first part of a multi-episode extended set of conversations on Faculty Labor Issues in Higher Education with our special guest today, Dr. Arik Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Lost Angeles.
We might not agree on many issues in politics. That's possible. But we're both reaching across the aisle to have some inter-party dialogue here on the issue of Labor in Higher Education. No one is forcing us to have this conversation. Certainly, no one is paying us to have this conversation. We're doing this because we both care very deeply about some very serious problems on college campuses in recent decades.
Dr. Greenberg is a distinguished, seasoned faculty member on Lost Angeles college campuses and brings a wealth of experience not only in teaching and administration but also in union organizing and peace march demonstrations.
This topic can get very complicated very quickly, but there is no other dialogue partner I can think of that can rise to that challenge with as much grace and humility as can Professor Greenberg. We are truly delighted that he stopped by to say a hi and stay awhile to get into the weeds a bit on this topic. And we do bring in some details, some specific numbers, so you can get a feel for what "part-time" professors get paid to teach college in Lost Angeles Ventura, and Orange County, California in recent decades.
The Republican Professor is a pro-improving-Faculty-Labor-Issues-on-Campus, pro-making-college-great-again podcast.
To move forward we have to listen carefully to each other and learn from each other, to forge relationships that are resilient enough to perdure through time.
The Republican Professor welcomes Dr. Arik Greenberg !
"Authority has its source in love and sacrifice," a priest told Dr. Buhler.
After getting his Ph.D. in Ancient Wisdom under a highly regarded Expert in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Keith Buhler, Ph.D., found himself drawn to the Classical Methods of K-12 education in California. That quote helps him speak with authority into the households under his tutelage.
Now he runs the school he co-founded in Southern California. The school has no website and is not advertised, yet has 90 kids and is able to speak into the parents on changing habits at home for the sake of the health of the kids. For instance, Keith regularly counsels parents to read with their kids, cut out the social media and video games.
Insatiably optimistic, but not naturally so, Dr. Buhler says his life is hard in many ways, and he has to work at optimism as a spiritual discipline. He believes that one can program oneself to become optimistic. "All is well in God's world," he says, inviting us to reflect on that fact. It's us who mess things up. And our worry doesn't protect us. We can do exercises that help these facts sink in, bring a calming, optimistic presence.
Keith recently ran his first marathon. Just a few years ago, he could not run hardly at all. He began slowly, walking everyday at first. He published a Facebook post on this titled: how to be lazy and run a marathon. Step by step, one can become a runner and have fun. Keith has shown his circle of influence himself.
Dr. Buhler has also gone to war with his ADD or ADHD as well. He's found that by spiritual discipline such as meditation, he's been able to gain tremendous improvement in his focus and see-through of major projects, without medication.
This Ph.D. has also gotten into real estate . He's gone from zero properties to now seven (yes, that's right, SEVEN) properties. He started small and kept at it.
The Republican Professor is a pro-real estate investment , pro-running, pro-K-12 disciplined Headmaster, pro-Ancient Philosophy and pro-optimistic , ADD management/healing podcast.
The Republican Professor welcomes Dr. Keith Buhler, Ph.D.
We're honored to be joined by the Def Leppard and Van Halen of Public High School Logic Teachers, Rich Bordner.
Bordner was a collegiate wrestler at The Ohio State University (which is in Ohio) and was one of those weird kids who majored in Philosophy. He shares part of his story of bringing Philosophy--including Critical Thinking and Logic (part of standard training in Philosophy) to the public high school campuses in California and Texas.
Bordner spent nearly a decade working 80 hours a week running a successful wrestling program as well as teaching cutting edge life thinking skills to students before throwing in the towel on coaching to save his marriage.
He has several stories to share, and many many more where those came from , that highlight just how crazy kids are becoming, and how he stands in the gap .
He can't do this alone.
You can help Rich at his new part-time venture, The Daniel Collaborative, which equips parents and high school students to be effective thinkers in the crazy context of the exact issues they face on high school campuses.
Check out https://www.danielcollaborative.com/ or email info@danielcollaborative.com for more information on how you can get involved or support this effort.
The Republican Professor is a pro-teaching-Logic-&-Critical Thinking podcast, we are coach-friendly, and love the work that the very best teachers, like Rich, do in public schools day in and day out.
The Republican Professor welcomes Rich Bordner !
Join us with Trust-expert Dr. Jonathan Reibsamen, Ph.D., a professional epistemologist, who examines the role trust plays in gaining knowledge.
Epistemology is the field of philosophy that focuses in on a disciplined and organized study of Knowledge, its limits and sources and conditions. Here the question for us hones in on how trust relates to the acquisition of knowledge in testimony (as evidence or a source of knowledge). Of course there are obvious connections to politics and business, for example. We barely scratch the surface of all the related issues that arise.
"Trust is very important."
Dr. Reibsamen also describes the courses he teaches, including his favorite teaching experience which involves teaching Logic in the prison system in South Carolina. He calls it the best logic class he's ever taught. A faith-based initiative, it's privately funded through donations.
Check out the website https://advancement.ciu.edu/projects/prison-initiative for more information on how you can support this vital , ongoing work teaching Logic and Ethics from a Christian perspective in the prisons of South Carolina.
The Republican Professor is a pro-Epistemology , pro-Logic & Critical Thinking, pro-teaching in Prison podcast.
The Republican Professor welcomes Dr. Jonathan Reibsamen !
We are delighted today to have with us Dr. David A. Horner, D.Phil. (Oxford, Medieval and Ancient Philosophy), author of "Mind Your Faith: a Student's Guide to Thinking and Living Well."
Dave Horner spends nearly 3 hours with us discussing the story of the book within his own story of suffering and healing, his anxiety and fear on Oxford's intimidating campus, and shares heartwarming, enlightening, and sometimes humorous anecdotes of the great philosophical figures that he encountered along the way.
You can get the book on the Nile, Mississippi, or whatever other huge river you typically get your books,
Strap in for nearly 3 hours of fast-paced hang out time with "Gollum Killer" Brad Cummings, The Shack film producer and its book publisher (22 millions copies, many of those out of his home garage), the General Editor and publisher of The Founders' Bible, seminary trained ex-pastor, one time homeless Pepperdine Student (before I taught there) and LA gang missionary, demon denier, mask-taker-offer, the unique and cheerful "bus-runned over" Brad Cummings.
"I needed everything that I went through to do what I'm doing now."
Join our conversation with military and police veteran turned entrepreneur business owner Chris Tighe.
Although he began as an E1 right out of high school, promoted through the middle NCO ranks, and eventually received a direct commission as an officer in his late 20s.
He retired as a LCDR in the United States Navy, where he supported intelligence and special operations missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and before that, the Indo-Pacific region. He also has a decade experience in law enforcement, which included some fights with some drunk NFL players.
At each step of his unique and storied government career, Chris took jobs that no one else wanted to do with the faith that he would help people and learn something useful for the future.
He left his government job with the regular, predictable paychecks and entered the business without a net. He started his own business.
He owns and operates a small business, a property management company called Pacific Rim Property Management.
The Republican Professor is a business-friendly podcast that appreciates military and police service. Welcome, Chris Tighe !
Higher Education in AFRICA: Join us today for a special guest, Lancaster Bible College's professor Rob Blanks describes what it was like for him to teach Ethics, Biblical Interpretation, Philosophy and Theology in Africa. You can see his heartfelt, deep love for the continent and its people.
For more information on how you can support this vital, ongoing work, visit : https://www.lbc.edu/projects/uganda/ for more information.
In this special business and ministry focused episode, we welcome veteran Toyota Global executive Bob Zeinstra to describe how he brings business & marketing to apologetics college campus ministry. Those skills are more relevant than you might think at first glance.
Bob's corporate work as General Manager of Toyota Global Sales Support (a position with Toyota Motor North America) is the latest iteration of a 35 year career in corporate America, a career which included 5 years as Head of Advertising for Toyota Global & years spent in Tokyo. Bob's corporate day job is separate and distinct from his campus ministry in North Texas. But he brings the same values and skills to campus ministry : Respect for people and quality of product and advertising.
While in Southern California, the Mecca of Apologetics training, Bob sought out additional training in Apologetics at Biola University. His curiosity and desire for growth in effectiveness and maturity in his walk with the Lord has led him on what he considers to be a life-long pursuit of understanding reality. He wants to share what he learns and what others know by bringing people together in pursuit of this high calling. We are called to love God with all of our hearts, souls, and our minds, according to Bob.
Bob's campus ministry is volunteer so that the funds he raises go right to the student ministry itself. A gift, for example, of just 30 bucks might go right to pizza to attract and minister to the bodies of the curious minds who show up at a weekly discussion of Creation v. Evolution on campus.
You donate at the University of North Texas donate button on the Ratio-Christi website here https://give.ratiochristi.org/?query=&filter%5B0%5D=887&filter%5B1%5D=#search
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f you've never had a discussion with Plato, well, strap in, because that's what we have here.
Journey with us on the story of tenured Philosophy professor (in Ohio) Dr. Alex Plato. Born and baptized PC USA (a "liberal" Protestant denomination, Presbyterian) in Oregon, Plato had a special science teacher at a public high school that taught him young earth creationism and some apologetics. Though his dad did not believe, his mother did, and took the family out of the liberal church into a more Biblically solid Baptist church. This led to the young Plato attending college at a Baptist college, where, in his words, "I tried to become an atheist."
He was unsuccessful in that endeavor.
He discovered apologetics, then philosophy, which naturally led him to the Mecca of Apologetics and Philosophy at the Masters level, Southern California, where Dr. Dallas Willard lived and taught for several decades (USC), mentoring dozens of PhD activist (my word--in a good way) scholars, activists for the truth, evidence, and common sense. Alex attended and graduated from Biola University in Lost Angeles County still not an atheist -- a failed atheist -- on a journey to a deeper Protestant faith. There, his Dallas-Willard-trained epistemologist mentor, Dr. R. Douglas Geivett, Ph.D., introduced him to Dietrich von Hildrebrand, Dallas-Willard trained ethicist Dr. Scott Rae, Ph.D., introduced him to Elizabeth Anscombe's defense of traditional morality, and a theologian introduced him to the Oxford historian and historical Jesus defender N.T. Wright.
At Biola, our mutual Philosophy of Religion (visiting professor from Oxford) Richard Swinburne started the first lecture by saying "we must follow the evidence wherever it leads." That's a motto that stuck with Alex, for evidence is what points us to the truth, and it's the only thing that gets us there or on the right track. What else would we follow if not evidence ?
Dr. Plato found himself dissatisfied with protestant churches , though, during this time. The building, the music, the sermons, everything but the coffee and doughnuts, seemed to get in the way of worshipping and knowing the Lord God of the Bible in the way Alex felt was most appropriate.
Short story long, Alex took a year off to teach and be a security guard. During this period of relaxation, he gained clarity. He wanted a Ph.D. in Philosophy under a guy named John Greco, epistemologist at St. Louis University which is in St. Louis. Turned out, when he got there to that Jesuit school, he returned to Elizabeth Anscombe, found himself living with a Catholic family, attending mass in Latin, singing Gregorian chant, and adoring the beautiful architecture entirely missing from most Protestant churches. He took in the tradition, found himself in it, earlier and yet later than the Reformation, in a way that took him by pleasantly by surprise.
Dr. Plato, Ph.D. then was hired at the Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, to teach courses in the core (Philosophy of Human Nature, Ethics, and Metaphysics) as well as Philosophy of Community, among other things. He got tenure due to teaching excellence. There, his role is to be available to students and to facilitate conversations with them and among them about things they should be discussing in order to avoid the cliches so common in our public discourse.
Strap in. There are tangents. But we always come back and summarize so you don't get lost (if you hang in there). There are also nuggets and gems of gold in the tangents. This is not scripted. It's a real conversation.
We're so excited that Hunter's Blend Coffee joined The Republican Professor podcast today. We were delighted to share their story.
Hunter's Blend Coffee goes right to the coffee farmer where coffee is actually grown. This cuts out the middle, margin-crushing man for a better price for the consumer. The result is higher-quality coffee, roasted to perfection, available to freedom-loving people everywhere there is an internet connection.
Hunter's Blend Coffee had its genesis in a belief. People matter because God created all human beings in the image of God. Human beings are thus bearers of rights and responsibilities to each other. Governments are instituted by the people, for the people, to protect those rights. And people -- including coffee farmers in lands far away, including roasters, employees, and consumers here in the United States -- have the right to their own labor free from irrational, corrupt, or overly burdensome government regulation, however well-motivated. Heavy-handed government regulation is always meant well in theory, but in practice, it often hurts real people trying to provide for themselves and their families.
Hunter's Blend Coffee acknowledges this foundational reality into their very identity. As the name suggests, Hunter's Blend Coffee takes a love of quality coffee and blends it with the political philosophy that people have a right to hunt and fish and bear arms for effective self-defense. Those same rights should be respected by any government, not crushed by government.
Check out their website at https://www.huntersblendcoffee.com/
At the end is a bonus feature for subscribers only. Be sure to check that out.
The Republican Professor podcast is a business-friendly podcast. We respect the right to liberty of contract essential to healthy businesses. So we are happy to make time to cover economics, theory of liberty, entrepreneurship and business stories so that more understand what it takes to start and grow a business.
The Republican Professor podcast team welcomes Hunter's Blend Coffee in this week's Business Entrepreneur Focus episode ! Enjoy.
Check out their website at https://www.huntersblendcoffee.com/
Dr. Paul Potter takes us through some twists and turns, disappointments and discontents, of his long career. He's 83 as of this recording, even though it seems like he was only 82 last year. He's got a lot of stories about the various moves he believes God brought him through and has some lessons for us at the very end. One of those lessons he shares is write the book that God has given you. It took him to the end of his life, 25 years after Lance Wallnau, Sr., told him that, for him to complete that task.
We at The Republican Professor believe in listening carefully to the older generation. You'd be surprised at what gems you might pick out that you never expected to find. And of course, just being with someone who's been around a lot, asking good questions, itself is valuable--being with each other.
You can check out his website at https://www.spiritual-wanderings.com
You can see the interview on The Republican Professor Channel on Youtube here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkyqoWfAYC4&t=1107s
Democratic activists, under the guise of mental health and public school education, artificially manufacture more "Qs" in the LGBTQ constituency of the Democratic Party at tax-payer expense, according to this first-hand account. Former elected education official (Orange County, California) and veteran public school teacher Brenda Lebsack shares with us what she says is purposeful deception of parents. Under the guise of a redefined method of knowing the gender of your child, the political forces dominating this aspect of K-12 public education in California are purposefully confusing kids, according to Lebsack, very often without parental knowledge or support.
Check out her website https://www.brenda4kids.com for more information .
Also check out her very helpful video here that we tried to play for you at around minute 40 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE1EuM20_RQ&t=60s
Also check out the documentary film "Whose Kids are They?" in which Brenda appears along with many others.
Epistemology is the field in Philosophy that focuses on what Knowledge is, how we know (or whether we know) what we think we know. Get ready to go a million miles an hour with professional epistemologist Dr. Trent Dougherty, editor of the Oxford University Press book "Evidentialism and Its Discontents" available for purchase here on Nile, Mississippi, or whatever river you get you books from.
E.g., https://www.amazon.com/Evidentialism-its-Discontents-Trent-Dougherty-ebook/dp/B00AQH7F8W/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3BM8FK58OQ5DX&keywords=trent+dougherty&qid=1645212085&sprefix=trent+dou%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-3
We ask him how we know things, what counts as good evidence, what the definition of opinion and knowledge is, is "publish or perish" good for Higher Education , how does one make it as a professional philosopher , and whether sense experience is required for having knowledge . He lists some of the great names in his journey, including Edmund Gettier, the three "RF"s --Richard Fumerton, Richard Foley, and his dissertation chair Richard Feldman--who were almost as important as the late, great Roderick Chisholm.
Enjoy also the personal anecdotes in the last half where he shares how he became interested in Philosophy after his conversion to Christianity from paganism, and how he got interested in Epistemology in particular.
Welcome, Dr. Dougherty !
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Have you ever experienced a genuine miracle ? How would you know if you did ? We are delighted to have Dr. JP Moreland, Ph.D. as our special guest today to help us work through these issues and more.
JP Moreland is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Biola University's graduate MA program. He has written delivered countless talks and written numerous books and articles related to all the ways that Biblical Christianity relates to high-level academic, rigorous Philosophy and contemporary culture.
Dr. Moreland earned a Ph.D. at the University of Spoiled Childr -- I mean Southern California (USC) -- in Philosophy under the guidance and dissertation mentoring of the late, great Dr. Dallas Willard, one of the greatest Christian philosophers in American history and one of the pioneers in the contemporary Spiritual Formation movement. So Dallas Willard is our intellectual and philosophical grandfather, as it were, through JP (and others).
More personally, JP was our/my (Dr. Mather's) professor for three key courses of mine in that MA program in Philosophy: Metaphysics I, Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics II: The Nature and Origin of Consciousness, and that program was what brought those involved in this project together. We all took key courses from Moreland (Kurtis took upper level Apologetics from him as an undergrad Philosophy major at Biola before his graduate work, for example). We've been friends ever since.
What is unique about JP is that he brought a sophisticated sense of humor to his own project of melding together Common Sense and rigorous, logical thought grounded in the ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary analytic academic discipline of Philosophy. If something he says sounds Common Sense, that's on purpose--it is ! But just as often, JP will elevate your discourse, your thought life, and will stretch you just beyond what you're able to handle in order to grow you. This is an odd mixture of feelings for the student: laughing, making connections and growing confidence, and getting smarter and smarter and sharper and sharper at making distinctions and learning about Reality.
It was a wonderful education.
Here JP discusses his most recent book, "A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles: Instruction and Inspiration for Living Supernaturally in Christ" available here on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Guide-E...
In this simple but careful, rigorous book, JP continues on that tradition of modeling Common Sense with logical thought. He suggests principles for determining whether you've experienced a genuine miracle or not. These are criteria you can apply confidently--because they are at once careful, rigorous, and common sense all at the same time--to test the testimony of others as well.
The result is: it is possible to know (yes, KNOW) that you've experience a miracle.
That word "Know" has the same meaning, the very same definition that it has in Law and Science. It does not change meaning. Philosophers are very careful with the meaning of words, and it means the same exact thing here as it does in those other disciplines.
He also includes a list of suggested criteria (about a dozen or so) to apply when God does not answer prayers to help you know or understand why the Lord didn't intervene in that situation. This material seems to be worth the price of the book by itself, as far as we are concerned.
This conversation was a joy.
Join our conversation here with JP on the metaphysics and epistemology of #Miracles
Welcome, JP Moreland !
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How do we stop sexual assault ? Empower the vulnerable. Wendy Hauffen (MBA, USC) of #NotmeSD equips women to become their own first responders.
Today we're so lucky to have Wendy Hauffen, MBA as our special guest, Founder of the #NotmeSD movement. #NotmeSD is dedicated to effectively and lawfully preventing sexual assault by actualizing the agency within each woman to be her own first responder.
How can a vulnerable person only rely on the police when the police are not always there ?
Wendy's anti-sexual assault civil liberties campaign is taking Southern California by storm. So far, it has concretely aided every single woman (over 500 so far) who has reached out for practical guidance, mentoring, grant money and financial assistance, and training on how to purchase, safely use, lawfully carry, clean and securely store a firearm for effective self defense.
Wendy is unique in her insatiable dedication to the Southern California community's well being and public safety. Her passion and well-earned knowledge base is the well that she draws from in serving San Diego County as a professional firearms instructor, business professional, and executive of the 3,000 plus member San Diego County Gun Owners Political Action Committee (PAC).
Wendy has often been sought out for help by women specifically. Many women feel intimidated by so-called "gun culture", which tends to be male-dominated. Wendy sees this and is helping to change it. Over 500 women have gone through her program spearheaded by #NotmeSD. Her approachability and humble demeanor makes her especially safe for women who are looking at becoming educated and trained in all things self-defense.
Any problematic legal or cultural barriers to effective, lawful self-defense--which is a sacred right of every person--comes under her steady, constant gaze. She relentlessly seeks solutions to these problems, real solutions that make women, and by extension all law-abiding citizens, safer in Southern California.
It is our great honor to have her as a guest and ask you to check out https://www.notmeca.org/
Specifically for San Diego and Southern California, please take a quick look at https://sandiegocountygunowners.com/n... for more information on how you too can support this effort.
You can also find the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SDCGO for more information on how you can join as a member or financial contributor.
Welcome Wendy !
You can view the Episode as "Episode 8" on Youtube here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1Aq8ac4i8&t=822s
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Here's a compelling story of how an average, normal, everyday citizen quit his secure, well-paying day job as a banker to defend civil rights.
Meet Michael Schwartz of San Diego, California. He went from banker to civil rights advocate, starting a local Second Amendment organization that went from zero to 3,000 members dedicated to vigilance in defense of the Constitution. He did this all on his own time while working a 7am-7 pm job, eventually quitting his job without a safety net to start the organization from the ground up to replace some of his lost income.
Michael went from working an average, normal everyday office job to an amazingly fruitful local and county-wide political advocacy laser focused on one issue: the right to self defense. To do this we need full-time employees working all week every week to curtail dangerous incursions on our civil liberties. We are excited to interview the Founder of the incredibly effective San Diego County Gun Owners, Michael Schwartz, banker turned local activist.
Mr. Schwartz shares his heartwarming personal story of a pretty scary experience of nearly being arrested by federal law enforcement for normal, lawful conduct. That experience and others led him into the long journey of learning how to become an effective activist for neglected natural and Constitutional rights.
Michael shares his frank disappointment with the Republican Party that led him to realize: no party is coming to save the Constitution in California. It's up to us at the grass-roots level. We (you and me, everyday people) have to do it. He shares powerful advice on what works and what doesn't based on years of tough experience.
No politician is persuaded by a meme you share on social media or by a rude, snarky comment. Sharing memes isn't activism, according to Schwartz. Key-board warriors are many but the workers of the civil liberties vineyard are few. We need more of that latter, and that starts with giving people agency. "Agency" means that everyday people can do something effective, it's within their power, their personal agency to make a difference in real life, in the offices of power. Michael Schwartz himself is the best evidence there is of that principle in the entire State of California, as far as we can tell so far.
You can listen to Michael every Sunday at Gun Owners Radio. You can find more information at https://www.gunownersradio.com/
You can join the non-partisan, single-issue organization he founded for as little as 10 dollars a month--a half a cup of coffee nowadays at certain places--and every cent goes to the full-time, effective effort at turning away harm and watering the fragile plants of renewal and growth in our self-defense civil liberties. Check out and join https://sandiegocountygunowners.com/
You can also find and follow or Like the San Diego County Gun Owners Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SDCGO
There are also sister organizations that have grown up , inspired by the model Michael shared here, in Orange County and the Inland Empire. They have Facebook pages and websites as well with the same logo.
And specifically for women (or for anyone who wants to help fund effective efforts at preventing sexual assault and victimization), also check out #notmeSD which has helped every woman who has inquired to find resources for safe firearm safety training (done by women for women), for confidently and securely obtaining a firearm for effective, lawful self-defense which as of this date numbers over 500 women in San Diego County alone (not even including the rest of Southern California). You can find more information here : https://sandiegocountygunowners.com/notmesd/
We welcome back Dr. Holzer of HBU from Episode 5 to do a deeper dive how military experience has shaped him as a person and as a professor.
You can listen here or you can watch the episode on Democrat controlled Youboob here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGsSNEOaZyg&t=1039s You can view Part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNrCMdp-vSM&t=2782s
Kurtis in Texas has 5 kids and has brought his widowed elderly dad into the household to live with them. In the difficult transition, he's discovered new patterns of life with his dad, including daily morning prayer and Bible study, that have blossomed into unexpected moments of grace and a more peaceful relationship. We wonder aloud how ancient/medieval type multigenerational living arrangements in the same household, which used to be the norm for thousands of years, might still be appropriate today.
We discuss among other things going to college in Hawai'i. Join our conversation today with our very special guest (are there ever non-special guests ?) Dr. Shannon Holzer of Houston Baptist University.
We discuss going to college in Hawai'i, grade inflation v. academic excellence, and some favorite professors. We also talk about our students. We discuss recent students versus the way students were ten years ago, grade inflation (did I mention we talk about grade inflation?), going to school in Hawai'i, what he was like as a student and a veteran of the US Marine Corps versus what more recent student trends look like, incentive structures in Higher Education and K-12, and seminary training in preparation for Ph.D. work in Constitutional Law and Philosophy.
Guest bio:
Professor Shannon Holzer, Ph.D. served for several years in the United States Marine Corps before going to college. Dr. Holzer has earned degrees in the areas of religion, philosophy, and politics/Constitutional Law. He earned his undergraduate degree at a small Baptist college in Hawai'i called Wayland Baptist University on the island O'ahu where he majored in Religion with a special focus on Biblical Studies. During college, Professor Holzer developed an interest in the discipline of Philosophy, and so he moved to California to earn an M.A. in Philosophy from Biola University's graduate program there, where he focused on Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Sensing a need for further training in the application of his training to areas of Constitutional Law and Politics, Dr. Holzer then moved to Texas in order to earn a Ph.D. in Religion, Politics, and Society at the world-famous J.M. Dawson Institute for Church-State Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He had met the rigorous standards of multiple philosophers on his dissertation committee in which he focused specifically on philosophical (epistemological) issues in First Amendment jurisprudence and its impact on society.
Shannon has a commitment to service and academic excellence which he models faithfully for his students. In addition to having served as a pastor in Hawai'i and his military service, Dr. Holzer has served in K-12 education as a public school teacher and sports coach in Los Angeles County and has taught in the community colleges and universities for many years, accumulating a rich set of experiences. He draws from this deep well of service with compassion, humility, and faithful commitment to academic excellence.
Professors mentioned include Dr. Dallas Willard of USC Philosophy Department, Dr. Craig Blomberg, Dr. JP Moreland, Dr. William Lane Craig, Dr. David Ciocchi of Biola, Dr. R. Douglas Geivett of Biola, Francis Beckwith of Baylor, and Dr. David Howle of Wayland Baptist University Hawai'i, and my (Dr. Mather's) WBU Government professor on Marine Corps Station Kaneohe whose name I have forgotten.
Schools mentioned include Wayland Baptist University on O'ahu, Hawai'i, Denver Seminary, Baylor University, Biola University, International College and Graduate School (Nu'uanu) off the Pali Hwy on O'ahu (upstairs from International Baptist Church) and Glendale High School (California). Churches mentioned in this episode include Hope Chapel Kaneohe and International Baptist Church just off the Pali Highway, leeward side, in the Nu'uanu valley in the Honolulu metropolitan area (Lucas' church at the time). Military bases mentioned include Hickam AFB, Marine Corps Station Kaneohe, Schofield Barracks, and Wheeler Army Airfield. Films mentioned include "From Here to Eternity."
We discuss issues related to courage, abuse of language and pressure to fit in.
It takes courage to think for yourself because you risk not fitting in.
Join our brain-storming session on coming topics: why extra credit is grade inflation (and professor Mather offers to drop the 2 highest quiz scores instead of the lowest quiz scores), how it is that Democrats have Republican beliefs but self-censor them (e.g., gun violence saves lives, walls protect property and people, etc.) in order to socially fit in, how Youtube is a Democrat platform as it censors innocent disagreement, and much more.
What is The Republican Professor all about? We're about having quality conversations about American Politics and related topics. Here, we briefly discuss our thoughts thus far on polarization. Podcasts referenced in the episode include Dan Crenshaw on Congress https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hold-these-truths-with-dan-crenshaw/id1498149200?i=1000547822946 and Denver Seminary's podcast on Christianity and partisanship https://denverseminary.edu/denver_podcast/51-keeping-the-gospel-as-our-primary-identity-in-politics/
Here Dr. Mather explains to a friend in dialogue why Abortion is about 5% of why he votes how he votes for President, , and why structural issues like threats to the separation of powers form larger chunks of the pie for me, and how they are all logically related to Abortion, because they are. This was recorded earlier in the year, right before Biden took the oath of office.
Other issues discussed are George Floyd and Police state brutality, the invasion of property rights, and entitlements.