The Republican Professor

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. ! The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph....

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 Mand...

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 Repu...

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 le...

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 l...

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 le...

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...

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. The Republican Pr...

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 choic...

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 listen...

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...

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...

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 Cou...

Be of good cheer. 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. The Republican Professor is a pro-young-people-who-give-you-hope podcast. Therefore, welcome Ms. Amanda Spiers ! The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph....

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 t...

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 t...

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...

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...

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 a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. Bont...

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 E...