The Republican Professor

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) ins...

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 sch...

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),...

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 & No...

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...

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 Am...

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...

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 liberti...

"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....

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 st...

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, b...

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 go...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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 h...

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 Declara...

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...

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 space...

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...

"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...

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 Distingui...

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...