The Republican Professor

Claremont Review of Books published an issue in Summer 2025 where the question is posed on the cover, decorated by attractive art, "Will there always be an England?" We're doing a fair use and transformative reading of an essay in one of my favorite publications. This is an engagement with an essay by Christopher Caldwell, one of my favorite writers on American Politics, entitled "Land's End" in S...

Part 7: We continue our timely coverage of Pope Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum numbers 32 through the end of 35 in his continued condemnation of Socialism and collectivism against the individual rights of employers, workers and families in 1891, when Socialism was increasingly popular in intellectual circles, setting the stage for the statisms of the 1900s. The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-the...

We begin our study of open carry in America's Constitutional tradition by spending time with Baird v. Bonta (2 Jan 2026, 9th Circuit) thru the top of page 11 (up to Roman Numeral II). The pro-Second-Amendment opinions, both of them that we take a look at, were written by Republican appointees (Trump, Republican US Senate). We will pick up at page 11 and Roman Numeral II at that time. This episode...

We're continuing from 11 Nov 2025, discussing the first subsection in his next chapter, chapter 5 (The Relation of Ideological Tyranny to the Authoritarian State), called "Revelation 13 as a Model of Ideological Tyranny" based on the insights from a master observer of both types of totalitarian socialisms on the Left, national socialism -- sometimes called fascism -- and the kind of socialism that...

Part 3 of a series on the history of Israel based on a fair use and transformative reading of "Israel and the Nations: From the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple" (Eerdmans, 1963) by FF Bruce. This episode includes interaction with his chapter III entitled "The Reign of David 1010 to 970 BC" by the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, FF Bruce, my intellectual and spiritual...

Part 3: The Natural Law provides a key to resolving a Republican debate in the 1980s on the normative judicial power, Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint. We did the Preface and Chapter 1 last time (13 Nov 2025) and this time we continue with the first half of Chapter 2, pp. 7 to 16 at the top. Stephen Macedo published "The New Right v. The Constitution" with The CATO Institute in 1986. We're...

We cover immigration today with Mark Krikorian's excellent short book review in Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2025 on page 16 of the physical print edition you get in the mail four times a year when you subscribe for a nominal charge. We do a fair use and do a transformative reading of this material. We'd like to thank Claremont Review of Books for making this material available. We'd like to...

We're introducing The Trivium today in conversation with Sister Miriam Joseph, Ph. D., who joins us through her writing teaching ministry in "The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric" originally published in 1937. We'd like to thank Sister Miriam Joseph for writing this and we'd like to thank Paul Dry Books 2002 for making this particular edition available to readers (edited b...

Last week on the 22nd of December, Republican appointed federal Judge Roger Benitez (Cuban ethnicity) struck down the Democrat mandated lying to parents in the K-12 school system. Unusual behavior or conduct of a student at school isn't grounds for a violation of Constitutional rights, Benitez held in Mirabelli v. Olson (Filed 22 Dec 2025), available here : https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d95...

One can see the true heart--none at all--of the Democrats' so-called concern for the most vulnerable among us in Jaime Caetano v. Massachusetts. That is to say, one can see the Democrats' utter contempt for the most vulnerable among us, like Jaime Caetano. This case was decided decided just a month after Justice Scalia died, in March of 2016. They criminalized a woman for innocent conduct. The Rep...

We finish Chief Justice Roberts' Opinion for the Court today for Part 4d of this deep dive as we continue the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) decision that overruled Chevron (1984), Chief Justice Roberts' Opinion for the Court starting from from his page 23 Roman Numeral III, letter B number 2 in the Slip Opinion through to the end of the Opinion of the Court on the bottom of page 35....

Part 2 of a series on the history of Israel based on a fair use and transformative reading of "Israel and the Nations: From the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple" (Eerdmans, 1963) by FF Bruce. This episode includes interaction with his chapter II entitled "The Philistines and the Hebrew Monarchy" by Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, FF Bruce, my intellectual and spiritual...

We want to thank Free Press for making this material available and thank D'Souza for writing it. Thank you, Dinesh. We continue our discussion of Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (NY, NY: Free Press, 1991) starting up at page 5 through page 12 in his chapter 1 called "Victims Revolution on Campus." We do a fair use and a transformative reading of a book...

Why the Court's majority is wrong in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia (2020)(part 9 in a series) about the faulty assumption that unexamined and unexplained transgenderism premises about sex and gender are properly included under "sex discrimination" language in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act --This continues to be a real hoot. Part 9: We continue our in-depth examination of sex, gender,...

Our guest today is Dr. Owen Anderson, Ph. D., a tenured Republican professor at Arizona State University, who stood up for Dennis Prager, Charlie Kirk, logic and reason at the school when it has not been popular to do. Follow Dr. Anderson at @dr_owenanderson on Tweeter and check out his Substack as well at https://drowenanderson.substack.com/ The Republican Professor a pro-Logic-and-Reason, pro-ke...

There are lessons for American Political Development in poignant political phenomenology of Europe by Christopher Caldwell in Claremont Review of Books' Summer 2019 edition. We discuss his excellent piece, "Why Hasn't Brexit Happened ?" on the physical copy's pp. 33-42. We make a fair use and transformative reading of this material with application to American Political Development (APD). CRB has...

We continue our discussion of an entry in the 1963 Rand McNally publication, edited by Leonard Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, called "History of Political Philosophy." This episode contains discussion of pages 72 thru the middle of page 80 covering Book I of the Politics. That entry on Aristotle is by Harry V. Jaffa, who famously applied his understanding of Political Philosophy to the history of the...

This is Part 8 in a series noting that 2025 is the 40th Anniversary of Harvard University Press' 1985 publication of Richard A. Epstein's "Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain." We continue our celebration of this anniversary with a fair use and transformative reading, continuing and now beginning chapter 4 in a new section which Richard calls ""Takings Prima Facia," which mak...

Part 1 of a series on the history of Israel based on a fair use and transformative reading of "Israel and the Nations: From the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple" (Eerdmans, 1963) by FF Bruce. This episode includes interaction with the Introduction and second chapter entitled "Israel's Beginnings" by Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, FF Bruce, my intellectual and spiritua...

For Part 4c of this deep dive we continue the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) decision that overruled Chevron (1984), Chief Justice Roberts' Opinion for the Court starting from from his page 13 Roman Numeral II.C in the Slip Opinion through Roman Numeral III, letter B number 1, stopping at number 2 on the bottom of page 23. We have one more episode after this one. This is the 14th Chev...

We're starting the chapter called "Sex." Chapter 3. We discuss his first sub-chapter, "The GI Generation and Its Failures." This is a continuation of a transformative reading and fair use of Chris Caldwell's "The Age of Entitlement" published by Simon and Schuster in 2020. We finish chapter 2, Race, today, including the crucial subsections pertaining to the origins of political correctness. We'd l...

Part 4 of 4 on the Intro. "The American Founders read the Bible," Oxford University Rhodes Scholar Daniel Dreisbach says in his first sentence of his Oxford University Press book. "They knew the Bible from cover to cover." "Its ideas shaped their habits of mind." "Biblical language and themes "The Bible left its mark on the political culture of the era." We had the author, Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach,...

Part 3 of 4 on the Intro. "The American Founders read the Bible," Oxford University Rhodes Scholar Daniel Dreisbach says in his first sentence of his Oxford University Press book. "They knew the Bible from cover to cover." "Its ideas shaped their habits of mind." "Biblical language and themes "The Bible left its mark on the political culture of the era." We had the author, Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach,...

On this day before Thanksgiving, Wed. 26 Nov. 2025 our topic is what I wrote about for Orange County Gun Owners/San Diego County Gun Owners blog (now published at Gun Owners Radio blog) 9 April 2020, what I called then "Two Types of Self Defense." One type is against the threat the immoral criminal aggressor -- the training appropriate to that threat might involve self defense training with weapon...

Part 2 of 4 here was interrupted by a Great Horned Owl encounter. "The American Founders read the Bible," Oxford University Rhodes Scholar Daniel Dreisbach says in his first sentence of his Oxford University Press book. "They knew the Bible from cover to cover." "Its ideas shaped their habits of mind." "Biblical language and themes "The Bible left its mark on the political culture of the era." We...