Episodes

July 28, 2023

Common Sense Moral Epistemology & the Rational Status of Trump Voters (2016, 2020) w/ Dr. Jonathan Fuqua, Ph.D. (TRP Episode 141)

Dr. Jonathan Fuqua, Ph.D. teaches full time with Benedictine monks in Missouri, but before that he was a jock, played football, and majored in PE as an undergraduate. He has five kids and has been married for 20 years. And he sensed a calling to do a Ph.D. dissertation in Philosophy at Purdue University on Common Sense Epistemology. He is an expert, a legit expert, in the philosophy of Common Sense. And yes , there is such a thing to be an expert in, and he’s one of them.

He’s publishing a co-authored academic paper on the rationality and morality of Trump voters (2016, 2020) where he argues that the demonization of Trump voters is not properly based in justification, evidence, knowledge or common sense morality.

The papers referenced in this episode can as of this date be viewed on Jonathan’s Academia.edu page here : https://conception.academia.edu/JonathanFuqua

The Republican Professor is a pro-Common-Sense-Morality, pro-Common-Sense-Epistemology podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Jonathan Fuqua, Ph.D., colleague of Benedictine monks and expert in the Common Sense philosophical tradition.

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

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Warmly,

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July 25, 2023

What to Make of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., w/ Jeffrey Tucker, The Epoch Times & Brownstone Institute (Co-hosted by Jonalyn Fincher Art Studio, Exeter, New Hampshire) (TRP Ep. 140)

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It’s wonderful to listen to Mr. Jeffrey Tucker opine on anything, and here he does in some detail on what he thinks of RFK, Jr. and anything related to the recent public health panic and civil and economic liberties.

Mr. Jeffrey Tucker writes for the Epoch Times and is founder of Brownstone Institute, and joins us to talk about what we like and don’t like about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s run for 2024 President of the United States. I have some serious concerns about him, but Jeffrey is a fan.

There’s very helpful writing featured at Jeffrey’s website. Check out Brownstone Institute here: https://brownstone.org/ and subscribe to The Epoch Times to read Jeffrey’s regular writing there on economic issues and civil liberty.

Guest co-hosting this episode is Jonalyn Fincher Art Studio out of Exeter, New Hamsphire, who has been featured on local TV for her current watercolor exhibit on Masks & Lockdowns — art as a way to deal with the trauma of the public health panic in recent years. You can see the TV interview here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l3KegrbUEWbq7tMgZV1_3cfe4crk6k8T/view?pli=1

The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-clear-about-civil-liberties, anti-censorship podcast.

Therefore, welcome again Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone Institute and co-host Mrs. Jonalyn Fincher Art Studio of Exeter, New Hampshire.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

July 20, 2023

Office Hours with Dale Fincher, @ChartingLiberty : Postmodernism and Marxism (TRP Episode 139)

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Office hours are shorter segments where an idea is unpacked and tested.

This one is postmodernism and Marxism with @ChartingLiberty’s Dale Fincher. First in a series called “Office Hours”

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

July 17, 2023

The Entrepreneur Mindset w/ Afghanistan Navy Veteran to Business Owner LCDR Chris Tighe, USN (ret) (TRP Episode 138)

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After retiring as a former Navy enlisted LCDR and former police officer in Honolulu and San Diego, Mr. Chris Tighe became an entrepreneur. He owns and operates Elevation Construction.

Elevation Construction is a service disabled veteran owned business headquartered in Houston, Texas with an office in Tacoma, Washington. Elevation Washington specializes in apartment complex renovations while Elevation Houston specializes in kitchen/bathroom remodels, new additions, and new construction.

Mr. Tighe’s company website is https://www.elevationconstructionteam.com/
Find him on Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/elevationconstructionteam/

The Republican Professor is a pro-Navy, pro-entrepreneur-mindset podcast.

Therefore, welcome my shipmate Chris Tighe

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

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

July 11, 2023

Religious Liberty, Foreign Policy, International Relations w/ Matias Perttula, America First Policy Institute, Arlington, Virginia (TRP Episode 137)

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Our guest today is Matias Perttula, author of a recent piece on Religious Liberty and International Relations for the America First Policy Institute, a non-profit educational organization.

The piece is called “ISSUE BRIEF: Religious Freedom Challenges Transcend the International and Domestic Divide” available here : https://americafirstpolicy.com/latest/issue-brief-religious-freedom-challenges-transcend-the-international-and-domestic-divide

It discusses the issue of religious liberty both here and abroad.

The bilingual (Finnish and English) Mr. Pertula was born in Australia but grew up in Finland before coming to Lost Angeles. At the college level he studied Political Philosophy and Symbolic Logic at Moorpark College (as a student of the TRP host) in Southern California before transferring to UCLA for his bachelors. He later finished an MBA at Southeastern, working in higher education before transitioning into international politics at Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. for several years.

Matias is now the Director of the Center for American Values at America First Policy Institute.

The Republican Professor is a pro-religious-liberty-properly-understood podcast.

Therefore, welcome Mr. Matias Perttula !

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

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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July 7, 2023

Continued: A Conversation About Liberty w/ @ChartingLiberty ‘s Dale Fincher part B

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… Continued …

For many years he was @VoiceoftheSecond on Instagram, writing about the queen of the liberties, as it were : The Second Amendment. TRP Podcast hosted him twice last year on the topic of spiritual abuse and gun control.

Mr. Dale Fincher, in preparation for going to sea with his family next year, has begun @ChartingLiberty. This is the first part of our first conversation. We talk about taxes and Jesus and rendering unto Ceasar and all sorts of stuff like that.

This is the first in a new weekly series.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Charting-Liberty podcast.

Therefore, welcome author, speaker Mr. Dale Fincher.

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

Subscribe here and on the substack for more information,

TRP is also on Rumble and Vimeo backing up things YouBoob claims are , and I quote, reminiscent of the first minute of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, “egregious harm.”

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

July 7, 2023

A Conversation About Liberty w/ @ChartingLiberty ‘s Dale Fincher part A

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This is the first in a new weekly series.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Charting-Liberty podcast.

Therefore, welcome author, speaker Mr. Dale Fincher.

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

Subscribe here and on the substack for more information,

TRP is also on Rumble and Vimeo backing up things YouBoob claims are , and I quote, reminiscent of the first minute of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, “egregious harm.”

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

July 4, 2023

A Real-Life Magnum PI: Mr. Phil Little, President of West Coast Detectives, Author of “Hostile Intent,” & Father of Former Logic Student of Prof. Lucas J. Mather at Pierce College, Woodland Hills, Calif.

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Mr. Phil Little is not the first guest on TRP Podcast who’s been shot at by terrorists, but it’s a fairly small group of guests that “enjoy” that distinction. Our guest today is the long-time chief of West Coast Detectives, originally an LA-based private investigative and counter-terrorism agency with offices in several foreign countries that is several decades old.

Mr. Little was a special guest speaker in Dr. Mather’s Pepperdine University School of Business course “Business Ethics and Public Policy”, Fall 2009 in Malibu, California. He’s also the father of one of Dr. Mather’s Logic-in-Practice students at Pierce College (Woodland Hills in the Valley, LA) in Fall 2009.

Mr. Little is the author of “Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself From Terrorism,” about his life as an investigator and head of a growing, private intelligence gathering firm working with public entities on counter-terrorism since the 1970s.

Enjoy !

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 30, 2023

A New England Painter’s Exhibit on Masks & Lockdowns w/ Watercolorist Jonalyn Fincher of Exeter, New Hampshire (TRP Episode 134)

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Jonalyn Fincher is a New England-based painter who has taken on the challenge of commenting on Covid-19 and the response to it as a way to process grief and trauma. Jonalyn invites dialogue as a part of the exhibit for her Exeter, New Hampshire Community.

She uses carefully thought-out , expertly crafted watercolor to prompt reflection, healing, and dialogue. She’s aiming for a deeper community solidarity than existed prior to the lock-downs and mask mandates.

Jonalyn is a gentle soul attentive to the power of beauty to bring healing and community out of trauma and destruction.

Check her out at her website, https://jonalynfincher.com/ or on Instagram at @Jonalyn_Fincher and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JonalynFincherArtStudio .

The free show starts in July so if you’re in or near Exeter, New Hampshire, take a look in person. No matter what your experience , you’re welcome there for dialogue.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 27, 2023

Part 4 of The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics: Obergefell 101 w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. (TRP Episode 133)

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This is Part 4 of The Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics.

Dr. Mather presents parts from his paper “Two Types of Marriage Equality: A Normative Analysis of Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)”.

It takes a look at Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and Reynolds v. United States (1879). Specifically, Dr. Mather provides a theoretical framework by which to understand the essence of Obergefell, including a distillation of the legal rule the Court relied on but never explicitly stated: what Dr. Mather calls “the contemporary ‘marriage’ equality assumption”: The Essence of Marriage must become malleable to allow for the expression of minority sexual orientations within marriage.

At the time of the decision, according to friend of the Court briefs, Bisexuality is a minority sexual orientation. Homosexuality is a minority sexual orientation. Therefore, according to this legal rule, both must be expressible in a marriage definition, and any necessary condition of marriage from classical marriage equality must give way.

Prior to this set of cases leading up to Obergefell, marriage was like the Rock of Gibraltar, unchanging in its essence, and against it, the waves of sexual orientation were dashed. That essence was protected and recognized in law for millenia as a natural-law relationship, accorded respect in the Common Law and before, a special, univocal, coherent, sui generis definition of a type of relationship that not everyone was interested in or wanted to participate in: A union between a man and a woman, typically recognized by Law, by which a they become husband and wife for life. That concept matured into seven necessary conditions (discussed here), what Dr. Mather calls the necessary essence of Classical Marriage Equality.

But no one was punished for not being married.

Marriage took on a famous status recognized in the Goodrich Court (Massachusetts, 2003), as we saw in prior episodes, as “a vital social institution.” And not by accident. Not arbitrarily. (How could something so vital be at the same time arbitrary ? The Goodrich Court (and Obergefell) never seemed to see that question was posable but not answerable by their analyses.)

But some wanted the fame associated with the mere spelling and were willing to shank the lexical essence to get that spelling to apply to something they were interested in. The secondary definition of the same spelling, what Dr. Mather calls M2, “any close union,” is in very old dictionaries right along side what he calls M1 (classical marriage equality), has now replaced M1 in law across the nation in Obergefell. That’s because the Court invented, and then used the legal rule, what Dr. Mather calls “the contemporary marriage (M2, not M1, equivocating on the spelling “marriage”, begging the question against M1) assumption.” Now the Rock of Gibraltar isn’t marriage, the concept or the mere spelling of the syllables. The Rock of Gibraltar, according to Goodrich through Obergefell, is Sexual Orientation, and upon that Rock, the definition of marriage is dashed.

The Republican Professor is a pro-True-Marriage-Equality podcast.

Check out the papers at TRP Substack,

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.