Episodes

Part 5 of 5, a Republican panel on the US Ninth Circuit defends open carry in California, Part 5 of 5 (Part 4 was 8 April 2026, Part 3 was 17 April 2026, part 2 was 19 February 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 page 49 (Roman Numeral VII) through to end of both VanDyke’s and Lee’s majority opinions. The pro-Second-Amendment opinions, both of them that we take a look at, were written by Republican appointees (Trump, with a Republican US Senate).

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2026/01/02/24-565.pdf

Here’s a link to the article I wrote 9 April 2020 for San Diego County Gun Owners, published on Gun Owner’s Radio, that I entitled : “Two Types of Self-Defense” here.

https://gunownersradio.com/two-types-of-self-defense/

This episode and this series is dedicated to the memory of my closest first cousin, Little Dan Mountain Jr, closest in age by just a couple of weeks, who died earlier this year in January.

I picked a topic that would bring a smile to his face and that would honor the bright spots in our childhood together in Colorado.

This episode was filmed Sunday evening 25 October 2026 years after Jesus in the backyard next to the pool waterfall of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) Epistemology mentor Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard), who wrote under the pen-name R. Douglas Geivett and was a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great Dallas Willard of USC’s Philosophy Department. Tomorrow the 26th of October, Monday at 2pm is his funeral. It’s an indescribable loss. We miss Doug greatly.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Second-Amendment-in-California podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Part 4.

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 her second chapter. That chapter is called The Nature and Function of Language. We start our discussion on the top of p. 15 where we left off 1 Sept 2026, and we top of p. 22 today.

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 by Marguerite McGlinn).

We’re doing a fair use and transformative reading, and would encourage you to go out and get yourself a physical copy of this book. Whether used or new, or even a different edition, if you can find it, get the book, a physical copy you can hold in your hand, and follow along with the discussion.

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The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

This is Part 13 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 final close look at ch. 7 continuing in the same section which Richard calls “”Takings Prima Facia.” He titles chapter 7, “Rights of Disposition and Contract” because he’s taking a look at what the judiciary often misses in the panoply of takings reached by the Eminent Domain Clause and the American constitutional order, how these things interact and hang together, ensconced as it is in the purpose of the Constitution. That moral purpose is the protection of individual liberty against claims by a simple majority in a democracy, or judicial or executive fiat, or by the government in any other way in a taking of private property. It’s also a good reflection on nature of property per se, whether public or private. For governments are owners as well as takers of property.

Today we discuss his chapter 7 from the top of p. 80. to the end of the chapter on p. 92.

Excellent stuff here. Excellent.

Every college student should read this book. It’s a superb introduction to the political philosophy of the American regime. Praise the Lord.

We’d like to thank Harvard University Press for making this material available and Richard Epstein for writing it.

Make sure you buy the book and follow along.

It’s very important for you to have your own copy on your own bookshelf, and to begin to master this material. Support your local book dealer. See if they have a copy of it, or if they’d mind keeping an eye out for you.

I always encourage buying physical books, objects you can have, hold, cherish, learn from, display on your bookshelf as a topic of conversation, things you can pass on to the next generation with your notes in them, things that do not depend upon electricity.

Toward that end:

Go to Harvard University Press for more selections available for purchase. Please support the publisher and your local booksellers.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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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 related to the stuff we’re saying here.

We’re using the slip opinion again. 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 under “sex discrimination” language in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act –This continues to be a real hoot.

Part 13 of 13: We continue our in-depth examination of sex, gender, and separation of powers in the US Supreme Court decision Bostock v. Clayton County, GA 590 U.S. 644 (2020): the Republican dispute, how to understand it, and what to do about it.

We continue with Justice Kavanaugh’s strong dissent (although there are a couple of issues, one kinda tacky, the other a bit more serious) grounded in the moral arc of separation of powers: to protect individual liberty. Justice Kavanaugh rightly concludes that the Court threatened individual liberty under the guise of protecting it — a serious charge indeed — and one I think is probably correct.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf

This episode was filmed Monday evening 12 October 2026 years after Jesus in the spa in the backyard of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) common-sense Epistemology mentor the late great Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard). Doug’s pen name was R. Douglas Geivett, and he specialized in commonsense religious epistemology and Christian apologetics. Dr. Geivett was a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great common-sense epistemologist Dallas Willard of USC’s Philosophy Department. We miss Doug greatly. I continue to talk about him and his impact on so many people like myself, and why it’s so important to have a common sense epistemology mentor like Doug was to me.

The Republican Professor is a pro-separation-of-powers-rightly-construed, pro-common-sense-epistemology-mentor podcast.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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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 Gorshuch’s p. 15 II.B.1 through his B.2 and B.3, ending at C in the middle of p. 26 Gorsuch’s concurrence slip opinion. If you want to follow along, there’s a link below.

This is the 19th Chevron Deference Deep Dive episode we’ve done on TRP podcast since winter 2024. And here it is October 2026.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf

(603 U.S. _____ (2024) of the Opinion of the Court written by Chief Justice Roberts.

This episode was filmed Friday evening 9 October 2026 years after Jesus in the spa in the backyard of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) common-sense Epistemology mentor the late great Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard). Doug’s pen name was R. Douglas Geivett, and he specialized in commonsense religious epistemology and philosophy of religion and Christian apologetics. Dr. Geivett was a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great common-sense epistemologist Dallas Willard of USC’s Philosophy Department. We miss Doug greatly.

This episode includes, during the beginning 20 minutes or so, a tribute to Doug with some recollection of when I first heard of him while I was deploying on Special Operations in the United States Navy, years before I studied with him in person.

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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 based upon that work. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was the key pro-slavery decision opposed by Republicans. Roe v. Wade (1973) was the key abortion decision along with its companion decision published the same day, Doe v. Bolton (1973), both opposed by Republicans. The 2A connection is with the slavery issue, for slavery was abolished when Republicans put guns into the hands of black people. The Democrats have been trying to pry guns out of the hands of black people ever since (see, most recently, Otis McDonald’s hands, which Republicans protected in 2010, while Democrats opposed and tried to take the gun out of his hand).

To help us with this contentious topic, we’re doing a fair use, transformative reading and discussion of Justin Buckley Dyer’s “Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning” made available by Cambridge University Press in 2013. We finish discussing his first chapter, through his page 13.

We’d like to thank Justin Buckley Dyer for writing this helpful monograph, and we’d like to thank Cambridge University Press for making it available.

Go out and get a physical copy today and follow along. Support your local brick and mortar book dealer.

This episode ends with a Chaplain’s Corner, a reading of Psalm 24 KJV, and Feb 3rd in Streams in the Desert (Lost Feliz Station Lost Angeles, 1925 original non-woke edition).

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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 that work. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was the key pro-slavery decision opposed by Republicans. Roe v. Wade (1973) was the key abortion decision along with its companion decision published the same day, Doe v. Bolton (1973), both opposed by Republicans. The 2A connection is with the slavery issue, for slavery was abolished when Republicans put guns into the hands of black people. The Democrats have been trying to pry guns out of the hands of black people ever since (see, most recently, Otis McDonald’s hands, which Republicans protected in 2010, while Democrats opposed and tried to take the gun out of his hand).

To help us with this contentious topic, we’re doing a fair use, transformative reading and discussion of Justin Buckley Dyer’s “Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning” made available by Cambridge University Press in 2013. We dip into his first chapter for the discussion going up to part way down his page 7.

We’d like to thank Justin Buckley Dyer for writing this helpful monograph, and we’d like to thank Cambridge University Press for making it available.

Go out and get a physical copy today and follow along. Support your local brick and mortar book dealer.

The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-Constitutional-metaphysics-of personhood-correck podcast.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Be sure to subscribe !

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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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 our discussion of this book. We’re still in ch. 4 which is called the “Presidency in the Federal Convention” starting on the top of p.78 through to the end of the fourth chapter on p. 91.

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 not to be looking for a fight, but rather, refusing any longer to duck the fight that in fact had come to them. And they sought to ground their cause, their reaction, to right reason in the natural law, consistent with Revelation and the Scriptures. They sought to articulate such an argument for their cause in such a way that would be rightly persuasive to any future reader and any of the nations which may inquire as to the source of their actions.

Of course, their cause was initially, in large measure, a reaction against abuse of Executive Power. But such a war required itself strong Executive Power. Therein lies the rub: how can Executive Power be strong yet consistent with the principles of Liberty ?

We’re making a fair use, doing a transformative reading and discussion of Charles C. Thach’s doctoral dissertation at Johns Hopkins in 1922 called “The Creation of the Presidency, 1775-1789,” made available by Liberty Fund INC in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2007. Go out and get your physical copy today. Follow along. We’d like to thank Liberty Fund for making this material available, and we’d like to thank Charles C. Thach for writing it.

This material was required reading in my Ph.D. program in Public Law and American Politics at The Claremont Colleges. It was used on the 6 hour comprehensive exams (6 hours each) and in a course called The Presidency and the Constitution taught by Joseph M. Bessette, who also served on my dissertation committee many years later.

This episode was filmed Constitution Day Thursday 17 September 2026 years after Jesus in the backyard of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) Epistemology mentor the late great Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard), a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great Dallas Willard of USC’s Philosophy Department. We miss Doug greatly.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-understanding-the-American-Presidency, anti-grade-inflation-plantation podcast.

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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 upcoming Mr. Steak Convention near Durango, Colorado.

The Mr. Steak across from Disneyland is mentioned in this one at minute 24. There are 256 restaurants at the time of this recording October 1975 for the November poster tape series.

Mr. Steak’s Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, interviews people in an effort to increase what he called Mr. Steak’s Competitive Edge by encouraging people to smile in order to help beautify America. This was in December 1976 for the benefit of Mr. Steak’s nationwide staff in 285 restaurants. Grandpa interjects his thoughts along with Scripture. This seems to have been a monthly series called “Mr. Steak’s Competitive Edge,” each month with a new theme.

Many thank to Kerri Marquadt, owner of 7 of the 286 Mr. Steak franchises including the Cheyenne Wyoming location, for the gift to me of these rare tapes of the Mr. Steak franchisor founder and motivational speaker, James A. Mather.

Grandpa Mather was raised by a single mother in the Great Depression in El Dorado, Kansas. He went on to serve as a Navy F2F Hellcat fighter pilot during World War 2. He started the company in 1962. He and his first wife Dottie raised 3 kids in Colorado. He died last year in the presence of his second wife Linda peacefully in Camarillo, California at the ripe age of 102 years young. Funeral services were held at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park and performed by Pastor Rob McCoy, whom Jim mentored in the Lord.

The still photo is a Mr. Steak mentioned in an advertisement in the LA Times 21 Dec 1978.

Enjoy.

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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 the time of this recording October 1975 for the November poster tape series.

The Mr. Steak across from Disneyland is mentioned in this one at minute 24. There are 256 restaurants at the time of this recording October 1975 for the November poster tape series.

Grandpa also mentions lunch with his friend, Bill Suessbrick, the president of Shakey’s at the time (William F. Suessbrick). The lunch was an invite from Bill to the Brown Palace club.

Mr. Steak’s Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO James A. Jim Mather, my Grandpa Mather, interviews people in an effort to increase what he called Mr. Steak’s Competitive Edge by encouraging people to smile in order to help beautify America. This was in December 1976 for the benefit of Mr. Steak’s nationwide staff in 285 restaurants. Grandpa interjects his thoughts along with Scripture. This seems to have been a monthly series called “Mr. Steak’s Competitive Edge,” each month with a new theme.

Many thank to Kerri Marquadt, owner of 7 of the 286 Mr. Steak franchises including the Cheyenne Wyoming location, for the gift to me of these rare tapes of the Mr. Steak franchisor founder and motivational speaker, James A. Mather.

Grandpa Mather was raised by a single mother in the Great Depression in El Dorado, Kansas. He went on to serve as a Navy F2F Hellcat fighter pilot during World War 2. He started the company in 1962. He and his first wife Dottie raised 3 kids in Colorado. He died last year in the presence of his second wife Linda peacefully in Camarillo, California at the ripe age of 102 years young. Funeral services were held at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park and performed by Pastor Rob McCoy, whom Jim mentored in the Lord.

The still photo is a Mr. Steak matchbook with a map of the United States’ locations sometime in the 1970s (probably).

Enjoy.

The Republican Professor is a pro-free-enterprise-system podcast. Therefore, welcome back Grandpa Jim James A. Mather.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D