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The Republican Professor exists to restore political balance to Higher Education and to provide a resource for quality learning through conversation on all things related to American Politics. Contemporary Americans are too hurried, frenzied, frazzled, grade-inflated, and distracted. The Republican Professor isn’t interested in contributing further to those qualities

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  1. Final Episode on Bostock v. Clayton Co (2020), Evidence Gorsuch Was Wrong, Common-Sense Epistemology

    Part 13 of 13 -- the last one on Bostock, baby ! Update: Richard A. Epstein said about 7 months ago on Law Talk with John Yoo (Feb 2026) in the first 20 minutes of the Feb 2026 episode that there is evidence Gorsuch may have changed his mind on Bostock. Well, it's plausible and if so, it's…

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  2. Chevron Deference Doctrine Deep Dive Part 6c: Justice Gorsuch, Loper-Bright v. Raimondo 2024 (Ep 19)

    We continue to cover Justice Gorsuch's Concurring Opinion for the Court today Episode 19 of this deep dive on Chevron deference. This is the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) decision that overruled Chevron (1984), Justice Gorsuch's concurring Opinion for the Court. We go from…

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  3. Abortion, 2A, Slavery and the Metaphysics of Constitutional Personhood ch1b -- Justin Buckley Dyer

    Part 2: The analogy of abortion with slavery has been used by both sides of the debate, pro-life and pro-choice. A helpful way to see which side is more likely using the analogy more correctly is to dig into a comparison between the key Supreme Court decisions involved, and to make an analogy…

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  4. Abortion, 2A, Slavery and the Metaphysics of Constitutional Personhood -- Justin Buckley Dyer ch.1a

    The analogy of abortion with slavery has been used by both sides of the debate, pro-life and pro-choice. A helpful way to see which side is more likely using the analogy more correctly is to dig into a comparison between the key Supreme Court decisions involved, and to make an analogy based upon...

  5. Constitution Day 2026 Discussion of the Presidency: Charles Thach, The Creation of The Presidency IX

    250th Anniversary of the USA Ep.10: Dr. Charles C. Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency IX (9th Thach episode on The Creation of The Presidency: A Study in Constitutional History). Episode 9 in the Thach series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this year 2026. It's part 9 of…

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  6. Mr. Steak Founder James Mather: Durango Convention w/COO,VP, June 1977 Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge

    Part 7 in the Mr. Steak series, and Part 6 of the Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge series. This one is from June 1977 and is on the topic of "Update," with Mr. Steak's COO and president Jim Shearon, the VP of Operations John Krielaart, and Ruth Cox, the administrative assistant to CEO and COO on the...

  7. Mr. Steak Founder James Mather: Teamwork with COO Jim Shearon, Nov 1975 Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge

    Part 6 in the Mr. Steak series, and Part of the Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge series. This one is from Nov 1975 and is on the topic of "Teamwork" with Mr. Steak's president and COOJim Shearon. The Mr. Steak across from Disneyland is mentioned in this one at minute 24. There are 256 restaurants at...

  8. Does True Forgiveness Require Repentance ? It Seems Like the Answer is Yes -- So It's Not Unilateral

    When Erika Kirk said at she forgave her husband's murderer, it seemed to imply a power to complete the forgiveness dynamic that was entirely unilateral. In other words, it seemed to imply a model of forgiveness that is foreign to Scripture. Scripture teaches that true forgiveness requires...

  9. Mr. Steak Founder CEO James Mather: Frederic Bastiat's The Law May 1978 Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge

    Part 5 in the Mr. Steak series, and Part 4 of the Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge series. This one is from May 1978 and is on the topic of "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat. This was one of Grandpa Mather's favorite books and one that I saw him handout on many an occasion to total strangers. The reading...

  10. History of Israel and the Nations pt 7 - Isaiah's Call to Trust God w/ Assyrian Threat - w/ FF Bruce

    Part 7 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. Prof. Bruce describes the purpose of his work on pages 11 and 12. Referring to the historical…

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  11. Studying The Trivium cont, Ch.2b: The Nature and Function of Language w/ Sister Miriam Joseph, Ph.D.

    Part 3. We're continuing our discussion of 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're discussing the first section of...

  12. How the Bible Influenced America's Legal Tradition -- Reading the Bible w/ the Founding Fathers pt 8

    We're talking about the Bible's Influence on America's Legal Tradition. Happy 250th Anniversary of 'Murica. You're in for a treat . This is part 4 of 4 (but it's Part 8 of the discussion of this book begun Fall 2025) on the Second Chapter "The English and American Public Culture." This is episode…

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  13. Mr. Steak Founder CEO James Mather: Nobody Loves an Absentee, June 1976 Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge

    Part 4 in the Mr. Steak series, and Part 3 of the Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge series. This one is from June 1976 and is on the topic of "Nobody Loves and Absentee." On the topic of Absenteeism, which apparently was a chronic condition for the managers and staff to work through at the time. Mr....

  14. Early Discussion in the Convention re: President: Charles Thach, The Creation of The Presidency VIII

    250th Anniversary of the USA Ep.9: Dr. Charles C. Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency VIII Episode 9 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this year 2026. It's part 8 of our discussion of this book. We're still in ch. 4 which is called the Presidency in the Federal...

  15. Mr. Steak Founder James Mather: Smile to Help Beautify America, Dec 1976 Mr Steak's Competitive Edge

    Part 3 in the Mr. Steak series, and Part 2 of the Mr. Steak's Competitive Edge series. This one is from December (recorded in November, though) 1976 and is on the topic of something very basic: the importance of the genuinely warm smile in human relations. The idea is that you're not just serving...

  16. War -- Republicans in 1960s Counterculture: The Age of Entitlement: America Since the 60s cont. ch4

    This is part 9 in the series. (Part 8 was the episode on 14 May 2026). We're beginning our discussion of the chapter called "War." Chapter 4. We discuss sub-chapters starting at p. 74 of chapter 4, hitting the following: "The Vietnam War generation and class" and "the counterculture." We stop at...

  17. Open Carry in California According to Republican Ninth Circuit Part 4, VanDyke, Lee Trump Appointees

    Part 4 of 5, this one focused on as-applied versus facial challenge of the penal code in California. The Ninth Circuit defends open carry in California, Part 4 of 5 (Part 4 was 17 April 2026, Part 2 was 19 Feb 2026 and Part 1 was 15 Jan 2026) of our study of open carry in America's Constitutional...

  18. Mr. Steak CEO James Mather on As A Man Thinketh in Scriptural Perspective with Bob Jensen, Sept 1977

    Mr. Steak's Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, discusses the book As A Man Thinketh by Allen with Bob Jensen in September 1977 for the benefit of Mr. Steak's nationwide staff in 285 restaurants. Grandpa interjects his thoughts along with Scripture. This...

  19. Mr. Steak CEO James (Jim) Mather on The Free Enterprise System 23 Mar 1982 Cheyenne Tom Bauman KRAE

    Mr. Steak's Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, was interviewed by Cheyenne Wyoming's Tom Bauman on KRAE Radio Tuesday 23 March 1982. Many thank to Kerri Marquadt, owner of 7 of the 286 Mr. Steak franchises including the Cheyenne Wyoming location, for…

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  20. Political Philosophy -- Marxism: Dialectical Method in Ethics Acc. to Thomas Sowell, Stanford Univ. 2

    Part 2: Chapter 2 on The Dialectical Approach: Methodology and Ethics. We're discussing a volume I've had since I was in high screwel (as Rush Limbaugh used to call it) at Chatfield I'm-so-High in Littleton, Colorado. I bought it with my paper route money probably at Barnes and Noble by the lake…

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  21. Hamilton v. Jefferson in Fame and the Founding Fathers, by Douglass Adair on Motives of the Framers2

    Part 2: Hamilton v. Jefferson . We're talking about the motivation of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution. It's a theory of the mentor of my Con Law mentor, himself an historian at Claremont Graduate School in the 1960s who taught my Con Law mentor Dr. Michael M. Uhlmann, Ph.D.,...

  22. Basic Political Philosophy 6: ARISTOTLE on Democracy and Oligarchy Deviation acc. to Harry V. Jaffa

    We continue Jaffa's discussion of Aristotle's Politics, continuing with his take on Aristotle's Book III, in 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...

  23. Parents Have A Right Not to Be Deceived By Public Schools Acc. to Republican Judges: Mirabelli pt5/5

    Part 5 of 5: On the 22nd of December 2025, Republican appointed federal Judge Roger Benitez (Cuban ethnicity) struck down the Democrat mandated lying to parents in the K-12 school system. We covered it beginning in late December 2025 and in a second episode in late January 2026. The third episode...

  24. Ordinary v. Literal Statutory Construction: Brett Kavanaugh's Dissent 2, Bostock v. Clayton Co 2020

    Part 12: We're using the slip opinion this time, see below for a link. Why the Court's majority is wrong in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia (2020) (part 12 in a series) about the faulty assumption that unexamined and unexplained transgenderism premises about sex and gender are properly included...

  25. Chevron Deference Doctrine Deep Dive Part 6b: Justice Gorsuch, Loper-Bright v. Raimondo 2024 (Ep 18)

    We cover Justice Gorsuch's Concurring Opinion for the Court today Episode 18 of this deep dive as we continue the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) decision that overruled Chevron (1984), Justice Gorsuch's concurring Opinion for the Court. We go from p. 8 letter C of the slip opinion...

  26. 250th Anniversary of the USA Ep.8: Dr. Charles C. Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency VII

    Episode 8 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this year 2026. It's part 7 of our discussion of this book. We're covering the last few pages of chapter 3: National Executive Power before the US Constitution but after July 4th, 1776 starting on the top of p.61. We then…

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  27. Fame and the Founding Fathers, 1966 Speech by Douglass Adair to Explain the Motives of the Framers 1

    We're talking about the motivation of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution. It's a theory of the mentor of my Con Law mentor, himself an historian at Claremont Graduate School in the 1960s who taught my Con Law mentor Dr. Michael M. Uhlmann, Ph.D., LLB. Happy 250th Anniversary of...

  28. Reading the Bible w/ the Founding Fathers -- The Founders Debate Use of the Bible in Schools (OUP)

    We're talking about the debate about the use the Bible in schools during the Founding generation. Happy 250th Anniversary of 'Murica. You're in for a treat . This is part 3 of multiple on the Second Chapter "The English and American Public Culture." This is episode 7 of the series on the book.…

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  29. Natural Law and the New Right v. The Constitution Ch3: the Judicial Restraint Activism of the 1980s

    Part 5: 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 discussed last half of his second chapter last time (19 March 2026) and this time we continue with the entirety of Chapter 3, which he...

  30. Criminalizing a Right to Sell, Leasehold Renewals, Disposition and Contract, Epstein's Takings pt12

    This is Part 12 in a series celebrating 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, taking a…

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  31. 250th Anniversary of the USA Ep. 7: Dr. Charles C. Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency VI

    Episode 7 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. We're covering the next several pages of chapter 3: National Executive Power before the US Constitution but after July 4th, 1776. We discuss pp. 53 thru the top of p.61. When the Founders signed their...

  32. Reading the Bible w/ the Founding Fathers -- The English Bible and American Literacy Education (OUP)

    Happy 250th Anniversary of 'Murica. You're in for a treat . This is part 2 of multiple on the Second Chapter "The English and American Public Culture." This episode broaches the English Bible's profound role on American Literacy Education, discussing pp. 29-34. "The American Founders read the...

  33. More Equal Than Others: Admissions Policy at Berkeley, Illiberal Education by Dinesh D'Souza, Part 5

    This is Part 5. 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 chapter 2, called…

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  34. History of Israel and the Nations pt 6 - Rise of Prophets Isaiah, Micah, Hosea, Amos - w/ FF Bruce

    Part 6 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 famous historical characters of Isaiah, Micah, and…

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  35. 250th Anniversary of the USA Ep. 6: Dr. Charles C. Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency V

    Episode 6 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. We're covering the first several pages of chapter 3: National Executive Power before the US Constitution but after July 4th, 1776. We discuss pp. 45 thru the top of p.53. When the Founders signed their...

  36. Tyree Benson Was Wrongly Convicted: 11+ Magazines Are Arms Protected By 2a: DC Court of Appeals pt2

    Part 2. We cover the DC Court of Appeals 5 March 2026 decision overturning the wrongful conviction of Tyree Benson who was criminalized for innocent conduct. Benson v. US disagrees with the Ninth Circuit's en banc resolution of Duncan v. Bonta, 2025, which we covered over several episodes in…

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  37. Political Philosophy -- Marxism: Philosophy and Economics According to Thomas Sowell, Stanford Univ1

    We're discussing a volume I've had since I was in high screwel (as Rush Limbaugh used to call it) at Chatfield I'm-so-High in Littleton, Colorado. I bought it with my paper route money probably at Barnes and Noble by the lake on the corner of Bowles and Wadsworth, down the street from Clement…

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  38. Reading the Bible w/ the Founding Fathers -- The English Bible and American Public Culture 1 Oxford

    Happy 250th Anniversary of 'Murica. You're in for a treat . This is part 1 of multiple on the Second Chapter "The English and American Public Culture." "The American Founders read the Bible," Oxford University Rhodes Scholar Daniel Dreisbach says in his first sentence of his Oxford University…

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  39. 250th Anniversary of the USA Ep. 5: Dr. Charles Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency III

    Episode 5 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. It should have been episode 4 because we accidentally skipped a ten page section between pp. 23- 33 last time that should have been episode 4, but we will just have those two sections out of…

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  40. Natural Law, Private Property and the Riparian Analogy in Possession and Use, Epstein's Takings pt11

    This is Part 11 in a series celebrating 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, taking a…

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  41. 250th Anniversary of the USA Ep. 4: Dr. Charles C. Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency IV

    Episode 4 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. It should have been episode 5 because we accidentally skipped a ten page section between pp. 23- 33 that should have been episode 4, but we will just have those two section out of chronological order and...

  42. War --Vietnam as Establishment Undertaking: The Age of Entitlement: America Since the 60s cont. ch4

    This is part 8 in the series. (Part 7 was the episode on 24 March 2026). We're beginning our discussion of the chapter called "War." Chapter 4. We discuss sub-chapters starting at the beginning of chapter 4, hitting the following: "The Vietnam War as an establishment undertaking" and "America's...

  43. Diego Perez part 1: Christian Testimony, Pro-Beach Volleyball, and Mentorship

    Diego Perez is a 26 year old pro-beach volleyball player. He also runs a non-profit gospel ministry in California called "Jesus Rules." He wears the shirt while he plays. This was the first in-person interview on TRP podcast. @diegonickperez 's website is https://jesusrules.co/ Send him some...

  44. 250th Anniversary of the USA Ep. 3: Dr. Charles C. Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency II

    Episode 3 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. When the Founders signed their names onto the Declaration of Independence, they were committing a capital crime, and they were signing their own death warrants if they were caught. They took themselves…

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  45. Tyree Benson Was Wrongly Convicted: 11+ Magazines Are Arms Protected By 2a: DC Court of Appeals 2026

    We cover the DC Court of Appeals 5 March 2026 decision overturning the wrongful conviction of Tyree Benson who was criminalized for innocent conduct. We cover up through the middle of page 22. We continue there next time....

  46. 250th Anniversary of the USA Ep. 2: Dr. Charles C. Thach, Ph.D. on The Creation of The Presidency I

    Episode 2 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. When the Founders signed their names onto the Declaration of Independence, they were committing a capital crime, and they were signing their own death warrants if they were caught. They took themselves…

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  47. Education is not Congress; It's Just Education: Remarks on Admission Policy at Berkeley, 11 Mar 2026

    Discussing Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education, Chapter 2: "More Equal Than Others: Admissions Policy at Berkeley" 11 March 2026 TRP Podcass Editor’s Note: Philosophers pronunce “Berkeley” as “Barkley” when referring to the man who was the namesake of the university town. So Professor Mather has...

  48. Campus Grade Inflation Threatens Your Right to Lawful Self Defense: Baird v. Bonta (2026) Part 3

    We continue with Part 3 (Part 2 was 19 Feb 2026 and Part 1 was 15 Jan 2026) of our study of open carry in America's Constitutional tradition by spending more time today with Baird v. Bonta (2 Jan 2026, 9th Circuit) from the top of page 27 (Roman Numeral II) through to the top of page 37 (up to...

  49. 250th Anniversary of the USA Ep. 1: Dr. Martin Diamond, Ph.D. on Reading in an Empire of Mediocrity

    Episode 1 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026. Martin Diamond channels Alexis de Tocqueville in raging against the grade-inflation machine back before IA, before much of the grade inflation crap got off the ground. We're making a fair use,...

  50. Basic Political Philosophy 5: ARISTOTLE on Sparta, Carthage and Citizenship acc. to Harry V. Jaffa

    We continue Jaffa's discussion of Aristotle's Politics, this time finishing his take on Aristotle's Book II and beginning with his take on Aristotle's Book III, in our discussion of an entry in the 1963 Rand McNally publication, edited by Leonard Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, called "History of...

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