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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 P...

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 bri...

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 "Intro...

In this very special episode, we have with us today a non-special non-guest, me, Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph. D., holder of an Associates Degree as well. The brief topic today at the end of the academic year: Two Types of Students. There are some brief remarks about the progress of the podcast and the courses I taught this past year. I'd love to hear your comments if they're the kind I'd love to hear....

Jason Pye joins us from Due Process Institute. It's is a nonpartisan organization that works toward the goal of criminal justice reform, specifically in lobbying Congress against over-criminalization and for very specific improvements in sentencing and rehabilitation of drug crimes like simple possession, among other things. The Republican Professor thought it would be good to get a conversation g...

They've done many podcast interviews but never yet with a host who has had cigars with Rick Joyner and Lance Wallnau, two people referenced in their books. I know people on both sides of this issue here, so I add what I can by way of eye-witness testimony and personal anecdote. My old (extremely old !) (j/k, Doug) Epistemology professor Dr. R. Douglas Geivett (I was his TA for a while, and had 3 c...

Dr. Craig Blomberg, Ph. D., is the author of numerous books, one of the earliest of which is his monumental The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (IVP, 1987). Dr. Blomberg shares with us how he developed the goal to become a serious biblical scholar who would do quality work at the very top of the discipline, and help students and other scholars sort through the issues of history in the Bible....

This is the second snippet from TRP's 2022 interview with Professor Yoo. John Yoo has taught at UC Berkeley School of Law for nearly 30 years and is the author most recently of Defender In Chief: Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, the focus of the interview. This is Episode 29 of The Republican Professor, originally published on March 23, 2022. https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/03/23/...

John Yoo has taught at UC Berkeley School of Law for nearly 30 years and is the author most recently of Defender In Chief: Trump's Fight for Presidential Power. This is Episode 29 of The Republican Professor, originally published on March 23, 2022. https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/03/23/episode-29-trump-presidential-power-prof-john-yoo-u-c-berkeley-school-of-law/ TRP interviews UC Berke...

Mr. Rich Bordner joins TRP for the second time to talk about what it's like teaching Public High School Philosophy and Bible classes. Mr. Bordner is a professional with many years of experience both as a teacher and as a star head coach in California and Texas public high schools. The Republican Professor is a pro-creating-a-culture-of-honesty-in-high-school-class-room podcast. Therefore, welcome...

TRP Classic Shorts: TRP Interviews Brad Cummings, Film Producer, Publisher of The Shack and General Editor of The Founder's Bible (Shiloh Road Press). Full episode published 4 March 2022 Subscribe to the Substack Lucas J. Mather, Ph. D. The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.co...

Dr. Matthew J. Peterson, Ph. D. (@docMJP on Twitter) is a former colleague of Dr. Mather's at Loyola Marymount University in LA and at Pepperdine University in Malibu. He recently moved from California to Texas to try to help to save America. And he tells us why. The Republican Professor is a pro-excellent-professor, pro-American-Firebrand podcast. Therefore, welcome Dr. Matthew J. Peterson, Ph. D...

Dr. Blake McAllister joins The Republican Professor podcast from his huge office at Hillsdale College in Michigan to talk about Common Sense Epistemology (the theory of what knowledge is and concepts associated with it, like faith, evidence, truth, belief, rationality, etc.). We discuss, among other things, what kind of wonderful student Blake was back when he took Logic from Professor Lucas J. Ma...

Dr. David Yamane, Ph. D., grew up in Central Coast, California, attending Berkeley for undergraduate. He earned a Ph. D. at the Berkeley of Wisconsin in Madison in one of the least Republican disciplines in college, Sociology. Going against the grain, he developed a college course on firearms and gun culture that required students to go the the firing range. Dr. Yamane shares some of his personal...

Here is a new look at the presidency of Gerald Ford and the post-Watergate era, through the lens of the US Constitution's Separation of Powers. And to walk us through that material with fresh eyes, we have Dr. Alex Hindman, Ph. D., a professor at College of the Holy Cross (where Clarence Thomas went for his undergrad) in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Hindman has a book called "Gerald Ford and the...

Dr. Garrett Pendergraft has a very subtle, sophisticated dry humor that he peppers into his academic writing, on display in his book on Free Will Puzzles. The book is called "Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments", part of the Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments in Philosophy Series published by Routledge Academic Press this year. You can find the book...

Teacher Sam, an entrepreneur in LA who was my (Dr. Mather's) former student at Loyola Marymount University, Lost Angeles, makes her second appearance on The Republican Professor (link to her first episode here : https://youtu.be/SAvi4BpSGRc) , this time with her brother in Sweden. They grew up Muslim and became war refugees in Europe at a very young age. They ended up in Sweden, where they learned...

Today's TRP guest is the eminent First Amendment legal scholar, Dr. Vincent Phillip Munoz, Ph. D.. He is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science (and Law at the Law School) at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Dr. Munoz is the author of such books as "God and The Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson" (Cambridge University Press), editor (with my disserta...

Our guest today on TRP Podcast YT Episode 113 is children's author Connor Boyack, creator of the Tuttle Twins series (4 million sold as of the date of the recording). The series aims to give kids a sound education in basic economics in order to prepare them for living well as adults. These tools of insulation against the harms and fallacies of collectivism are unique and popular among home-based e...

Our guest today is Dr. Joshua Rasmussen (Ph. D., University of Notre Dame), a professor in the Philosophy Department at Azusa Pacific University in Lost Angeles County, California. He is the author of "Defending The Correspondence Theory of Truth" published by Cambridge University Press (2014). You may also be interested in checking out one of his videos he did on the subject here: https://www.you...

I had a great time with Jer Rivera, someone I've known since Colorow Elementary School (named after a Ute Indian Chief who had been born Comanche) in Jefferson, County, Littleton, Colorado, our home state and home town . Jer and I reconnected when I was in the Navy in Hawai'i, where I lived and went to college for 4 years while active duty in the Navy. Jer was also in college at the time at HPU af...

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 Th...

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...

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...

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 Dou...