The Republican Professor

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 Hopk...

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....

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 persuasiv...

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 Contro...

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 implem...

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 dire...

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), s...

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 env...

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...

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) w...

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,...

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...

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.c...

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 W...

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 ag...

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...

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 t...

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 Republi...

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...

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 r...

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...

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...

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 P...