Episodes

Join our warm and timely conversation with the author of the wise and compelling book “The Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness,” Dr. Charles Kesler, Ph.D.

(A link to that book is available below).

Charles is a Harvard man. He studied at Harvard for all his degrees culminating in the Ph.D. in Government, and serves as the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, which in my humble view is the best member of the Consortium of The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California.

His prior books include Saving the Revolution, a Signet Classic edition of The Federalist Papers with his Introduction, and more recently a book on how to understand President Obama within the context of the different epochs of Progressivism/Liberalism called “I am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism.” (Links to these books are available below).

Dr. Kesler also writes a regular editor’s introduction to each issue of The Claremont Review of Books, which comes out four times a year, winter, spring, summer, and fall. Each short essay is beautifully written, often dryly humorous, always insightful and engaging. If you do not yet subscribe to the publication, in my correct view, you’re missing out on delightful substance. For instance, one can read online *if necessary*, but the Review comes out in an attractive physical copy delivered by mail peppered with quality artwork, made of sturdy material, salted with the lighthearted depth that keeps one abreast of the times and yet moves one in deeper understanding and appreciation of truths past, present, and future. It has a timeliness and at the same time a timelessness about it.

In this TRP episode, Charles tells us what he means by “the two Constitutions”: There’s “The Founder’s Constitution,” and by contrast there’s now, also “The Progressive’s Constitution.” They are not the same constitution, and thus must be distinguished. Doing so helps to unpack an explanation for political and cultural phenomena that might otherwise go unnoticed or misunderstood.

We more or less follow the outline of the book. Worth the price of the tome by itself, Dr. Kesler offers “What’s Wrong With Conservativism.” Included are thoughts about Reagan, Bush, and Trump, including an anecdote by your TRP host of sitting in Professor Kesler’s class in Spring of 2016 as he predicted, early in the semester, to every undergraduate’s astonishment, that Trump would beat Hillary (as well as a rationale).

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Therefore, welcome Charles Kesler !

Though the book is available at your local brick and mortar bookstore, here’s the Amazon link to Dr. Kelser’s book “Crisis of the Two Constitutions”: https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Two-Constitutions-Recovery-Greatness/dp/164177102X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=crisis+of+the+two+constitutions&qid=1655756321&s=books&sprefix=crisis+of+the+two+%2Cstripbooks%2C176&sr=1-1

Here’s a link to Kesler’s Signet Classic edition of The Federalist Papers, with helpful collated notes with the text of the Constitution: https://www.amazon.com/byAlexander-HamiltonThe-Federalist-Papers-Paperback/dp/B003212Y6W/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=the+federalist+papers+charles+kesler&qid=1655759499&s=books&sprefix=the+federa%2Cstripbooks%2C176&sr=1-4

This is the link to Professor Kesler’s important precursor book on President Obama: https://www.amazon.com/Am-Change-Barack-Crisis-Liberalism/dp/006207296X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid&sr

And The Claremont Review of Books awaits your subscription for a modest price (compared to what you get) here: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/

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

Join our warm conversation with missionaries to the incredibly dangerous land of … California. Abby and Michael Clark are missionaries to California, focusing specifically their efforts on beach culture, and volleyball , and specifically people training to be pro-beach-volleyball players.

This involves, interestingly enough as you’ll see, simply being a family , married with children, living as best they can according to how they see God’s design for marriage and the family (They believe that God created the entire world, every physical thing, from atoms to quasars and gravity, including people and the relationship of marriage, the most conducive to the flourishing of people from the time of conception to death). Turns out, just that alone, being a stable, Godly family, tends to draw a crowd and leads young people to want to be mentored by them.

Their trust in the Lord, as they would put it, has led them to the most expensive area in the United States, or one of them (Orange County, California), and they live almost entirely on the support of those who believe in the necessity of their mission and in the Clark’s incredibly normatively-normal, yet counter-cultural example (because California is so in need of that–the normatively counter-cultural-normal example they provide). They home school their kids because they don’t trust the public schools to do so correctly. They pastor young people. Yet, they also do not forsake attending church themselves. They observe the Sabbath and the commandments to the best of their ability under the guidance and help of the Holy Spirit, and the result has been, it has been and continues to be quite a ride. They have no regrets. (I asked them more than once).

If you’d like to support their work in the once great state of California, your tax-deductible gift can be given here : https://meigiving.org/donate/michaelandabby .

If you’d like to send a check to them by mail, the address and instructions for the memo line of your check are : “Missions Enablers International” and put CM3717 in the memo line and
send it to: MEI | P.O. Box 2127 | Bentonville, AR 72712.

They are with Mission Enablers International and have a video they’ve made for such purposes of support here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cZcakvUOylO1Bkgp4zK5aQTlgjU0_Dum/view.

If you’d like to contact Abby and Michael Clark about their ministry in California for more information, you may send correspondence to : michaelandabbyclark@gmail.com

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Therefore, welcome Abby and Michael Clark, missionaries to the state of California.

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

Join our warm conversation with combat veteran Dr. Lance Robinson, Ph.D., retired Lt. Col. (USAF) combat aviator and former Professor of Government at the US Air Force Academy, author of “Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft: The Constitutional Foundations of the Modern Presidency” in Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, eds., The Constitutional Presidency (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), pp. 76-95.

Lance opens up about his long and distinguished career in the United States Air Force, including flying combat missions over Iraq. He earned a Masters and Ph.D. degree while active duty and taught American Government at the United States Air Force Academy.

The Republican Professor is a pro-military-service, pro-getting-degrees-while-active-duty, pro-understanding-the-so-called-Progressive-movement-rightly, pro-accurately-grasping-the-Constitutional-presidency podcast.

Therefore, Welcome, Dr. Lance Robinson, Ph.D., retired Lt. Col. and professor for the United States Air Force.

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

Chris Wolfe is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. We discuss our experience as Adjunct Professors and ways to combat grade inflation, among other topics in Higher Education.

The Republican Professor is a pro-doing-Higher-Education-right, anti-grade-inflation, pro-not-coddling-lazy-student-entitlement podcast.

Welcome, Dr. Chris Wolfe, Ph.D. !

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

Join our warm conversation with the (pro-bono) president of the 140-year old historic California Rifle and Pistol Association (he does not take a salary for the position), Chuck Michel.

Chuck is a very successful Civil Rights attorney in Lost Angeles County who prevailed at the 9th Circuit in the initial 3 judge panel, a panel that issued an opinion that is FAMOUS in California for being persuasively argued, masterfully written opinion of the Court by Judge O’SCANNLAIN in Peruta v. County of San Diego in 2014 (a Right to Bear Arms case, conceal carry). That opinion was predictably reversed en banc only by ignoring the merits of the 3 judge panel opinion of the Court. Here’s a link to that decision and you can read it for yourself to see: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16699306652731612622&q=peruta+v+county+of+san+diego+&hl=en&as_sdt=2003

Chuck is probably nationally famous as the California “Freedom Week” attorney, which, if you don’t know, within the span of a few days in 2019, brought 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines into California. Michel was the prevailing attorney in that nationally famous California “Freedom Week” District Court victory in 2019, where the Court issued a wonderfully persuasive, masterfully argued Finding of Fact and Opinion of the Court Duncan v. Becerra (366 F. Supp. 3d 1131 – Dist. Court, SD California 2019). At issue there was the unConstitutionality of California’s arbitrary and capricious 10-round magazine limitation.
In this episode, Chuck reads the tea leaves, so to speak on the upcoming Right to Bear Arms (RTBA) case at the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)(expected any day now) and what the California Attorney General will probably advise the recalcitrant jurisdictions to do in order to obstruct the implementation of the likely ruling. We all want to pay very careful attention, here.
One can support the California Rifle and Pistol Association tax-deductible educational foundation by making your book purchases through AmazonSmile, indicating you’d like to pick Jeff Bazos’ pocket by designating a charity to support. It doe not raise the price one pays for the book.
Books referenced in this episode are “Gun Truths: How Gun Laws Fail”, as was Chuck’s book, “California Gun Laws: A Guide to State and Federal Firearms Regulation” 2022 9th Edition.
Last, for an insider’s perspective on how surviving a mass murder in San Fransisco changed one attorney’s perspective on self-defense, see “Coming to Terms: A Mass Shooting Survivor’s Reckoning with Vulnerability and Self-Defense” with Forward written by Chuck.
For more information about California Rifle and Pistol Association, check out : https://crpa.org/
For information on Chuck’s boutique Long Beach law firm, check out : https://michellawyers.com/
For links to the major California-based, very persuasively written, masterfully argued, and influentially received Second Amendment opinions rendered by federal judges and mentioned above, check out :
Peruta v. County of San Diego (2014) (persuasive 3-judge panel Opinion of the Court) : 742 F. 3d 1144 – Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2014.
And the persuasive, beautifully written, masterfully argued nationally famous “Freedom Week” Federal District Court opinion that brought in about 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines in less than a week to California, Duncan v. Becerra, 366 F. Supp. 3d 1131 – Dist. Court, SD California 2019.
The 3-judge panel opinion reviewing that trial court opinion at the 9th Circuit is also well-worth reading (Duncan v. Becerra, 970 F. 3d 1133 – Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2020), all available on Google Scholar.
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Therefore, welcome Chuck Michel
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Join our warm and insightful conversation with spiritual abuse expert and author Dale Fincher.

Some prefer to stay in the shallow end of the pool, but not Fincher. Today, Dale gently leads us confidently to wade into the deeper spiritual and emotional waters of healthy Second Amendment activism. Dale makes insightful connections to the reality and pervasiveness of spiritual abuse in the Gun Control/Gun “Safety” world. The current Second Amendment debate might take a second to absorb what Fincher says here. Spiritual abuse involves a manipulative, shame-based, gaslighting distortion of ourselves and of who God is under the guise of religious or moral authority.

Dale Fincher is an expert in Spiritual Abuse identification and recovery. A survivor of spiritual abuse himself, after his graduate Seminary training in Philosophy he founded and served as president for many years a soul-care non-profit dedicated to helping victims of spiritual abuse find healing and spiritual recovery.

Fincher is author of the delightful book “Living With Questions” (available on the Nile or Mississippi or your local book dealer, for instance, here : https://www.amazon.com/Living-Questions-invert-Dale-Fincher/dp/0310276640 ) and makes his home in a two-century-old home in New England. He runs the Instagram and Twitter accounts @Voiceofthe2nd that aims to link many of the insights from spiritual abuse recovery to the cultural and political moment that we face today. Fincher aims in his work to foster a genuinely reflective, spiritually authentic, emotionally healthy, robust and resilient Second Amendment activism.

For more information, check out his website https://www.dalefincher.com

The Republican Professor is a pro-Spiritual-Health, pro-emotional health, pro-robust-and-reslient-Second-Amendment-activism, pro-genuinely-reflective, pro-spiritually-authentic podcast.

Therefore, welcome back Dale Fincher, @Voiceofthe2nd (on Instagram and Twitter)

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

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.

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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/

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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

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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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Welcome, Molly Morey !

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