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Part 1 of 4: "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, D.Phil. (Oxf...

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 like to thank Chris Caldwell for writing it, Simon and Schuster for making it available, and encourage you to purchase your o...

This episode begins with a narrative of the host on a Christian view of the Second Amendment folding right into part 3 of 3 in Ortega v. Grisham (19 August 2025, 10th Circuit). "[T]he waiting period is just an artificial delay on possession" (p. 20), "a standardless, temporary disarmament measure" (p.21) according to the Republican federal appeals court judges on the 10th Circuit, appointed by Tru...

We continue our discussion of pp. 68 thru 72 of an entry published the year before the author wrote one of the most infamous (or famous, depending) Aristotelean speeches for 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater (R, AZ), published as it was in 1963 by Rand McNally, edited by Leonard Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, in a volume called "History of Political Philosophy." That entry on Aristotle is b...

Part 2: 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 Foreward by Richard A. Epstein last time (15 Oct 2025) and this time we continue with the Preface and Chapter 1. Stephen Macedo published "The New Right v. The Constitution" with The CATO Institute in 1986. We're going to make a f...

Why Gorsuch is wrong in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia (2020)(part 8 in a series) about his 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 is a real hoot. Part 8: We continue our in-depth examination of sex, gender, and separation of powers i...

We're continuing from 15 Nov 2024, discussing the next subsection of Chapter 4 (The Pragmatism and Idolatry of the Ideologies), called "Ideologies as Idolatry" 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 the Communists in East Germany and Russia had during the 190...

Lisa Ekman (MSW, DU & JD, Georgetown Law School) spent her career in D.C. working in the policy space around disability services advocacy, working for at one point US Senator Ted Kennedy. And then one day, she , in her words, she began to experience an awakening while experiencing what she calls a dark night of the soul. In 2020, she retired, bought a farm in Virginia, bought a gun (or more), expe...

Michael M. Uhlmann, LL.B., Ph. D. was my mentor in Constitutional Law for over a decade and convinced me not to go to law school but instead to study public law as a Ph. D. student, which I did. Here, we do an excursus on the Chevron Deference Deep Dive series on The Republican Professor podcast. We have Uhlmann on a book by Peter Wallison called "Judicial Fortitude: The Last Chance to Reign in th...

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 continue chapter 2, Race, today, the sections "What did whites think they were getting" and "What did blacks think they were getting." We'd like to thank Chris Caldwell for writing it, Simon and Schuster for making it available, and encourage you...

This is Part 7 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 6: We continue our timely coverage of Pope Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum numbers 27 through the end of 31 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. This episode includes a reading from Psalm 6...

This episode covers the 24 July 2025 US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Rhode v. Bonta available here : https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2025/07/24/24-542.pdf The issue is being litigated En Banc but the decision here is the right answer and so deserves careful study for voters. Note carefully, the judges with the right answer here are women appointed by George W. Bush, Jr...

I've known 24 year old (counting from birth, not conception) Micah Kunkle from Holy Smokes in Orange County for several years. He's married, works full-time, and serves as a high school debate coach in California. He's also participated in over a half a dozen or so very well publicized Jubilee (YouTube) debates with millions of views. You can follow Micah Kunkle on the following : YouTube: https:/...

Why Gorsuch is wrong in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia (2020)(part 7 in a series) about his 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 is a real hoot. Part 7: We continue our in-depth examination of sex, gender, and separation of powers...

We begin discussion of an entry in the 1963 Rand McNally publication, edited by Leonard Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, called "History of Political Philosophy." That entry on Aristotle is by Harry V. Jaffa, who famously applied his understanding of Political Philosophy to the history of the Republican Party in American politics, and who, as such, influenced me profoundly through my mentors, who were...

The Natural Law provides a key to resolving a Republican debate in the 1980s on the normative judicial power, Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint. Stephen Macedo published "The New Right v. The Constitution" with The CATO Institute in 1986. We're going to make a fair use and do a transformative reading of the book. CATO offers a free download of the book here: https://www.cato.org/books/new-ri...

I introduce TRP backstory in this episode by beginning a fair use and a transformative reading of a book I encountered in high screwel at Chatfield High Screwel in Jefferson County, Littleton, Colorado in 1991. I wrote an article about it in my high screwel newspaper, the Chatfield Charter. This is a first in a series of TRP backstory episodes on The Republican Professor podcast. I believe I origi...

Matthew Kirby returns to TRP Podcast to describe what the Charlie Kirk memorial was like in Glendale, Arizona on Sunday 21 Sept 2025. He drove from San Diego to Glendale in time for a 3 am Denny's the morning of, and slept in his car in order to attend the funeral of a man he never met or even followed that closely on social media. And tens of thousands of people did likewise. Matthew came on the...

This episode includes a reading from Psalm 27 (KJV) and the 1925 1st edition of "Streams in the Desert", January 11th. The episode culminates in our regular programming which 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 begin chapter 2, Race, today. We'd like to thank Chris Caldwell for writing i...

"[T]he waiting period is just an artificial delay on possession" (p. 20), "a standardless, temporary disarmament measure" (p.21) according to the Republican federal appeals court judges on the 10th Circuit, appointed by Trump and Bush. This is part 2 of a multi-part series following the injunctive relief individuals got on 19 August 2025, when the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the...

Part 5: We continue our timely coverage of Pope Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum numbers 20 thru the end of 26 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. This episode includes a reading from Psalm 91 an...

This episode of TRP Podcast is dedicated to my dad Mark Mather of Littleton, Colorado, who died 24 Sept 2008 while I was on my way to teach Political and Social Philosophy (Phil M03) at Moorpark College in California. The time stamps for my dad are at 43:35 and following. The rest is about why Gorsuch is wrong in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia (2020)(part 6 in a series) about his faulty assumpt...

This is Part 6 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 finishing chapter 3 in what Richard calls "Philosophical Preliminaries." He titles chapter...

The U.S. Constitution as proposed 17 Sept "in the year of our Lord" 1787. Read with skill by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph. D. on 17 Sept 2025 years after Jesus. This special episode includes readings from "Streams in the Desert" January 6th (Cowman Publications, Los Angeles Los Feliz Station, 1925) and Psalm 16. The Republican Professor is a pro-Constitution, pro-back-to-basics podcast. The Republican...