Episodes

Join our warm and timely conversation with the prevailing attorney in the seminal U. S. Supreme Court gun control decision Printz v. United States, 521 US 898 (1997) and the author of the book we discuss today, “Gun Control and the Third Reich” (2013).

Why do Socialists like Gun Control ?
Why did the National Socialists (Nazis) like Gun Control?
How did they use “public safety” reasoning to implement it?
What was the result of that process ?
How well-documented is this ?
Today is an interview with the prevailing attorney in the seminal United States Supreme Court gun control decision, Printz v. United States in 1997, Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D..
Halbrook in unique among successful attorneys in that he approaches his Second Amendment work from a scholarly perspective, not merely an adversarial, litigious one. Dr. Halbrook has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida State University as well as his law degree from Georgetown, and is the author of a number of serious books. The book we discuss in this episode is “Gun Control and the Third Reich,” a particularly sobering view of the key role that gun control played in National Socialism of the Nazis rise and maintenance of power in Europe, with disastrous consequences for the innocent parties targeted by the government by the criminal law for reasons of “public safety.” The book is based on primary sources in German, and is richly footnoted.
The book is a careful study in the well-documented danger that government can pose to individual liberty in the name of “public safety,” with great cost to innocent people’s liberty, their dignity, their property and ultimately innocent human life itself.

You can purchase the book at your local bookseller (please support your local brick and mortar bookstores), or from the Oakland, California-based think tank that published it, Independent Institute, here : https://www.independent.org/guncontrol/

This episode was guest co-hosted by Mr. Tobin Hobbs, J.D., fellow Founding Board Member of Orange County Gun Owners (with Lucas Mather) in Orange County, California.

The Republican Professor is a pro-study-of-History, pro-natural-right-to-self-defense, pro-self-care, pro-self-care-entails-self-defense, pro-limited-government, pro-individual-liberty, pro-respecting-people-not-abusing-them, pro-Second-Amendment, pro-true-public-safety podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D.!

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

Join our warm conversation with Impact 360’s Dr. John Basie, Ph.D. He’s been in teaching and Higher Education Administration for going on 2 decades.

Dr. Basie did his Ph.D. degree in Religion, Politics, and Society at the Baylor University Institute for Church-State Studies, the premier place in the world to study First Amendment religion, culture, and government issues at that time. He now directs Impact 360 Institute, in Pine Mountain, Georgia, affiliated with Union University in Jackson, Tennessee for undergraduate work. For graduate work, their work is partnered with North Greenville University (South Carolina). Both are COC SAC (regionally) (legit) accredited.

It’s a program that has been rightly influenced by the deep and wonderful life-work of the late great scholar of Christian Philosophy and Spiritual Formation, Dr. Dallas Willard, Ph.D., who taught our mentors at the University of Southern California for many decades, and did it right and was a model for doing it right for our professors and mentors. Major funding for the founding of the Institute came from the Chik-Fil-A family.

You can check out the program at https://www.impact360institute.org/

The Republican Professor is a pro-Chik-Fil-A, pro-Higher-Education-done-right, pro-do-something-a-little-differently-in-order-to-do-it-right, pro-conscientiously-taking-the-student-soul-seriously, pro-education-infuenced-by-Dallas-Willard podcast .

Welcome, Dr. John Basie, Ph.D. !

Join our warm conversation with retired Santa Barbara City College Professor of Logic and actor friend of Charleton Heston, the endlessly fascinating Dr. Mark McIntire.

He takes us on a wild journey through his background in New England, embracing the Catholic Church, learning Latin in high-school from nuns, his uncanny impression of John F. Kennedy, Jr (seriously, the very best I’ve ever seen), studying Philosophy and Law at very old universities in Rome (one of his professors was Joseph Ratzinger), then leaving the Catholic Church, getting Ed Asner fired from the Screen Actors Guild in California, his friendship with movie titan and civil liberties activist Charleton Heston, his long teaching career ending in retirement from Santa Barbara City College, where he fought the corrupt grade-inflating swamp administrators and Socialist/Communist grade-inflating faculty who tried to get him fired for not being a Socialist.

Now Mark, in retirement, still gives back to his community through online education for homeschoolers, for adult learners looking to get what they never got, or to shore up what they once had. He runs a website designed for helping people think critically based on his several decades of college teaching experience in that exact area.

Listen to him doing an incredible performance as JFK, Jr decades ago : https://vimeo.com/88400045?fbclid=IwAR2bNRcUbDmDSP36ukRzv2_pKSp1n6NAshTRJfPsdKSGTRkeGIZlW-a90-g

The Republican Professor is a pro-Critical-Thinking, pro-Learning-Latin-and-Logic, pro-Charleton-Heston, pro-scary-good-impressions-of-famous-people, pro-standing-up-to-swamp-administrators, pro-standing-up-to-the-Corrupt-Communists, pro-true-higher-education podcast .

Here is a news story about Dr. McIntire : https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/10/19/how-a-professor-who-lost-his-job-for-being-conservative-fought-back-and-won/?fbclid=IwAR1d2RPIJhOXzXbEPDw1iRnT9C8Mim9CuGPu3eU4AVGRsfh9GXcnMvBFlsk

Welcome, Dr. Mark McIntire !

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

The Daily Wire produced a film about a proper response to school murder, and our next guest on TRP podcast is someone who’s worked on Daily Wire film sets. She was the assistant to the Director for the last film they did with Gina Carano and she and others with Daily Wire have YEARS of experience in TV and Film in Lost Angeles on hit shows and films.

What’s it like being a conservative in that environment ?

How’s a Daily Wire film set any different ?

You will find out on this next episode of The Republican Professor. Meet the artistic film industry veteran Molly Morey !

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The Republican Professor is a pro-free-speech, pro-having-integrity-in-the-work-place, pro-healthy-creative-artistic-expression, pro-respecting-other-people’s-rights podcast.

Welcome, Molly Morey !

The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.
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Join our warm conversation with the Associate Dean of the Bellarmine College of Conservative oops I mean College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Brad Elliott Stone, Ph.D, on the shift he made from full tenured Professor to Administration, why he made the shift (is it really more money ?) on the goal of reducing unproductive, expensive Administrative Bloat, and how his backstory growing up on a farm in rural, small town Kentucky shaped him as a person, a professor and as an administrator.

Brad shares with us what helps keep him sane (he has a piano in his office, and can play), how he developed a love of books and a respect for languages early on in life (and how that helped him while living and studying in Europe), whether they had guns in Kentucky (I had to ask) and what for and what rural life was like for him there, including the special role his brother played as his childhood companion, and more besides !

These intriguing and delightful snapshots into Dr. Stone are integrated into a compelling whole picture of how he uniquely approaches life as a professor-turned-Administrator.

For instance, what if anything can the faculty do to save the Academy from being reduced to the Higher Educational Industrial Complex (as it were) ? Can anything be done as an Administrator/Educator to make the Academy more healthy , more true to its high calling?

Bellarmine College of Conservative Arts is at my (Dr. Mather’s) alma mater, Loyola Marymount University in Lost Angeles, California, where I myself taught for over a decade as well.

The Republican Professor is a pro-saving the Academy, pro-reducing-Administrative-Bloat, pro-healthy-rural-childhood-memories, pro-love-of-books-and-languages, pro-creating-healthy-campuses-for-the-life-of-the-mind podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Brad Elliott Stone, Ph.D., Associate Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, full tenured Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

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

Join our warm conversation with our distinguished guest, the Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism at Claremont McKenna College, part of The Claremont Colleges Consortium, Dr. Ralph Rossum, Ph.D. Professor Rossum taught the American Founding with the late Antonin Scalia, and has a best-selling two-volume Constitutional Law textbook called American Constitutional Law (with Alan Tarr) which is in its at least 11th Edition as of this recording.

We discuss his powerful book “Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy” which is available at your local book dealer.

Dr. Rossum also takes some time to recount a few charming anecdotes of Antonin Scalia and of his supervisor at the University of Chicago, the late scholar of the American Founding (especially the Anti-Federalists), Dr. Herbert J. Storing, Ph.D.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-understanding-the-American-Founding, pro-correctly-contemplating-American-Constitutional-Law, pro-charming-anecdotes-of-great-scholars-and-Justices-of-the-Supreme-Court podcast.

Therefore, welcome Ralph Rossum.

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

Join our warm conversation with USMC infantry (Iraq) veteran Matthew Kirby, who brings his Seminary training to bear on today’s discussion which is Christians and Gun Control. We take a look at “God, Guns, and America” written by Dr. Mike Austin who graduated from the same Seminary that Matt and I did. But Austin’s conclusions are drastically at odds with our own, and we discuss how that could be, and is, so. The basic difference is: some Christians have no compunction criminalizing innocent conduct like genuine self-defense, or like being prepared for effective self-defense in public and in private.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Second-Amendment, pro-not-criminalizing-innocent-conduct podcast.

Welcome, Matthew Kirby !

Join our warm conversation with Jennye Biggelow , newly elected Executive Vice President of the California Republican Assembly.

Ronald Reagan called the California Republican Assembly the conscience of the Republican Party in California.

We talk local politics–Jennye spearheaded founding the Costa Mesa Republican Assembly chapter in her backyard there in Orange County.

The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-involved-in-local-politics, pro-grass-roots-politics, pro-understanding-your-community-needs, pro-California-Republican-Assembly podcast.

Therefore, welcome Jennye Bigelow, Vice President, California Republican Assembly.

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She’s a Home-Based Education advocate and mom going up against a Bernie-supporter endorsed by Trump. She’s got her work cut out for her but isn’t backing down an inch. Meet the lovingly fierce Heidi St. John, candidate for US Congress in Washington state.

For more information about her and to check out her wildly popular podcast with over a million downloads a month, check out http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts

The Republican Professor is a pro-true-education, pro-Home-based-education-done-right, pro-don’t-back-down, pro-lovingly-fierce-candidate podcast.

Welcome, Heidi St. John !

Join our warm conversation with long-time Business & Marketing professor Dr. Tom Buckles, Ph.D., as we discuss the educational enterprise as illuminated in his distinguished teacher career.

The Republican Professor is a pro-business, pro-entrepreneur, pro-learning-from-long-experience, pro-education-done-right podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Tom Buckles, Ph.D. !