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Happy Labor Day weekend 2022: TRP Episode 85

TRP’s Labor Day guest today is once again Dr. Arik Greenberg, Ph.D. He’s writing a book. We talk at length about Dr. Greenberg’s memoir that he’s writing that gets into some detail of his family of origin. It mixes with Theology, which is his academic specialty.

Then we continue talking about Academic Labor issues, Unions, etc. from our earlier episode 23, published March 11, 2022: available here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmdTh2QiS9o and Episode 24 on Apple Podcasts available here : https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/03/12/episode-24-faculty-part-time-tenure-labor-issues-special-guest-dr-arik-greenberg-ph-d-of-loyola-marymount-university-la/

This is the second part of a multi-episode extended set of conversations on Faculty Labor Issues in Higher Education with our special guest today, Dr. Arik Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Lost Angeles.

Dr. Greenberg is a distinguished, seasoned faculty member on Lost Angeles college campuses and brings a wealth of experience not only in teaching and administration but also in union organizing and peace march demonstrations.

This topic of academic labor can get very complicated very quickly, but there is no other dialogue partner I can think of that can rise to that challenge with as much grace and humility as can Professor Greenberg. We are truly delighted that he stopped by to say a hi and stay awhile to continue into the weeds a bit on this topic.

And we do continue in some details, some specific numbers, so you can get a feel for what “part-time” professors get paid to teach college in Lost Angeles Ventura, and Orange County, California in recent decades.

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To move forward we have to listen carefully to each other and learn from each other, to forge relationships that are resilient enough to perdure through time.

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Happy Labor Day weekend from TRP

Here are links to the documents referenced by Dr. Greenberg at almost the 2 hour mark:

https://edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf
and
https://pullias.usc.edu/download/imperative-change-fostering-understanding-necessity-changing-non-tenure-track-faculty-policies-practices/?wpdmdl=13873&refresh=62bd03d0771fc1656554448

TRP Episode 82 on YouTube: Civil Rights attorney John Dillon, a prevailing attorney against California’s so-called “assault weapon” definition and ban, reacts to the US Supreme Court’s decision in NY Rifle & Pistol Assn v. Bruen (issued Thursday 23 June 2022).

His victory in federal trial court against the so-called California Department of Justice came last summer, June of 2021, in Miller v. Bonta decided 4 June 2021. Interesting for our purposes here, the Judge Benitez’s (Cuban ancestry) reasoning in striking down the ban as a violation of the Second Amendment was essentially the same reasoning used by the high Court in Bruen. Benitez used the Heller test, as he called it, before, and in addition to the flawed reasoning that the 9th Circuit had developed to counteract Heller, because they don’t like Heller.

You can and should read that very readable, well-argued Miller decision for yourself here : https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5854039725887452071&q=miller+v.+bonta&hl=en&as_sdt=2003

Feel free to tell me if I’m wrong in the comments. But make sure you base your argument in the text of Miller and in the text of Bruen. Cite those sources. (Good luck in that).

You can read the Bruen decision here : https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf

John goes into a little of his backstory, as well, of how he personally got into this topic. He did not grow up as a “gun guy.” He was a normal undegrad a UCLA. It’s possible he partied a little too much. But he majored in History. He did well in school.

He decided to go to Law School also in LA at Loyola. It was during law school there in LA that he went shooting at a club in LA and decided to buy his own firearm. There began his journey through the Alice in Wonderland type of web of irrational bureaucratic criminalization scheme that California and LA have enacted in the name of “public safety” and “police power.” Police power, in these jurisdictions (like New York), could be symbolized with a fist in the air, power to the police, the police state. Innocence as a definition be damned. The once clear line between guilt and innocence in the California criminal law is now blurred, constantly moving, and sometimes not in line with anything approaching rationality or commonsense.

John Dillon began to take it as his mission in life to expose that to the world for what it is.

Referenced in this episode is also Justice Thomas’s dissent from denial of cert in Sylvester v. Harris, here : https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-342_4hd5.pdf

^ It’s short, read it . Get informed. It’s also a delight to read because it’s so well-written.

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Therefore, welcome John Dillon, the prevailing attorney in Miller against Bonta (the Calif DOJ) on 4 June 2021.

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The latest issue of Police State Magazine (Berkeley, Ca) has recently voted TRP #6th scariest publication for Statists who want to grow their Police State, behind the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, the corpus of Alexander Solzhenitzen, and Mila 18 by Leon Uris. We’re honored. Thank you. Very humbling. #grateful

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For a time in his Ethiopian youth, Dr. Tedla G. Woldeyohannes, Ph.D., of Huntington University in Indiana, was a Marxist.

But gradually he was called out of that materialistic metaphysics , and out of scientism, into Biblical, historic orthodox Christian belief, and into classically rigorous Philosophy, the search for truth and love of wisdom.

Dr. Woldeyohannes has written a fascinating book in English (one of his 3 languages) just published called “A Philosopher’s Testimony About the God Who Calls,” which is worth every dollar and available for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Testimony-About-God-Calls/dp/B0B5KVD4K5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+philosophers+testimony&qid=1661750890&sr=8-1

The book is clearly and beautifully (and at times humorously) written. It describes that inner journey that led him into contact with the rock stars (for lack of a better term) of Anglo/American analytic Philosophy. If Alvin Plantinga, William P. Alston, & William Hasker were Bruce Springsteen, Bono, and Cher, Tedla was receiving signed copies of Born in the USA, Under A Blood Red Sky, and that one song from Groundhog Day, plus money, from these stars *while he lived in Ethiopia !*

Why did he receive these items ? Because he asked. He found their addresses, wrote letters, and asked for copies of books and articles unavailable to him otherwise.

It seems God was and is at work in Tedla’s life.

Tedla joins us from Bill Hasker’s old office there at Huntington University, which illustrates, perhaps even proves, the point.

Through dire poverty, through traumatic family challenges, including the death of his brother (his roommate at the time), through tumultuous economies and politics, through international visa bureaucratic BS challenges and hangups, through enrollments and missed assignments because he had , as Aristophanes said of Socrates, he had his head in the clouds, through failure, delay, and even family death, God called Tedla to study Philosophy, no matter what. God called Tedla, (Dr. Tedla, now) to a life of singular focus on a Christian search for truth.

This is a radical story. It’s gripping.

HIs outer journey accompanies and is as dramatic as his inner journey, taking him from Africa to Lost Angeles County, California to study Anglo-American Analytic Philosophy from a Christian perspective at Biola University, then to Colorado to teach Philosophy for a time (where, as it turns out, the same school that my own parents met, in my hometown), then to Western Michigan to continue his skills in a purely secular Philosophy graduate program, and finally to a Ph.D. in Anglo/American Analytic Philosophy at a Jesuit school under the famous Medieval Scholar and Philosopher of Religion Eleanore Stump and the famous Epistemologist John Greco at Saint Louis University.

Through it all he was financially supported by Bill Alston and Bill Hasker, among some others, like for instance the philosophy celebrity equivalent of perhaps Johnny Cash, Dr. Peter van Inwagen, a famous Philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, who doesn’t even think that money is real (see the 1 hour mark for detail of the metaphysics of ordinary palpable objects).

There are so many moving parts to this story, to this intellectual development, but final detail: Recall, Tedla was not a native English speaker. He had to work for it, and work hard. His first purchases were: a radio, and a good English dictionary. Both for the purposes of mastering English. It has paid off.

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Ms. Dezarae Payne is the director of a monthly firearms training clinic at the Ben Clark Sheriff’s Training Center in Riverside County, California for Sheriff Chad Bianco (Riverside County Sheriff) to promote firearm safety and education for California citizens, typically women.

She is NRA, DOJ (California Department of Justice) and Riverside County Sheriff certified CCW (Conceal Carry Weapon) instructor.

In addition, she is the founder and CEO of FemaleFirearmsInstructor.com and develops curriculum for that company, Vanguard Training and Consulting, which teaches especially women how to safely handle and carry firearms.

You can check out her female-focused firearms training here : https://femalefirearmsinstructor.com/about/

Women don’t necessarily want to be trained by another woman, according to Dezarae. Frankly, it might just be that they don’t want to be trained by their husband or boyfriend.

Ms. Payne has a unique temperament perfectly suited to this kind of training.

Firearms education and training can be very intimidating to those who feel jolted by the loud noises, who are initially afraid of the weapon itself, who don’t understand how it works, why it does what it does, how to clear jams safely (finger off the trigger, always aware and in control of where the muzzle is, that it’s constantly at all times pointed in the best direction, a “safe” direction, etc), to load and unload and be aware of others (at all times), and to do so while having a great time, that all can be overwhelming to people new to firearms. If they feel shame or their nerves are in dorsal vagal shutdown, they won’t take the information in.

Culture was such in my childhood first experiences with firearms that I was afraid of being unsafe, and that fear was reinforced by my social community (by everyone), I would have been shamed into oblivion for violating any of these safety norms, it’s sometimes hard for me to remember that the newcomer to firearms safety and training doesn’t have those deeply ingrained habits and intuitions. Somehow, the safe and strict firearms culture in my family and friends also allowed for freedom, responsibility, and fun with firearms at a very early age there in the Colorado of my youth. But not everyone has that background, and many can’t even contemplate what that would be like for them.

That’s why I’m so impressed with Ms. Payne’s gentle, firm, disciplined, informed, safe approach to leveling women up (and some men, too).

She is the guardian of the best in American “gun culture,” including the politics side of this equation. This stuff doesn’t happen in a political vacuum.

Dezarae grew up in Montana and moved to California as an adult. She was carrying legally in her home state, having gone through the very simple process there of obtaining a carry permit. What she experienced when she got to California was a nightmare in terms of compliance. Innocent people can easily become accidental criminals in the intense matrix and web of irrationally complex, non-intuitive police state mentality of California law. Of course, as Dezarae notes, nothing changed as far as her safety and training with firearms when she moved from one part of America to another. Why the heavy-handed overreach in California ? It didn’t and still doesn’t make any sense, as it didn’t seem to have any even minimal rationality attached to California’s over-criminalization approach.

Most politicians start out local. That’s the time to train and educate them into protecting the right to self-defense and everything necessary to support that right, culturally and politically. So, start locally in politics.

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We’re joined today by Prof. Dr. Errin Clark (Ph.D., Medieval Philosophy, SLU), a current or former Adjunct Professor in Wisconsin, Missouri, and Ohio. He’s taught Logic, Critical Thinking, Theology, Latin, World Religions, Medical Ethics, Business Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of the Human Person (Philosophical Anthropology), and high school as well.

Dr. Clark is a serious Catholic scholar, having been classically trained at the Jesuit school St. Louis University, not pronounced “street Louis University,” which I found out during our interview.

Dr. Clark (not pronounced “drive Clark”, which I also discovered during our interview)(awkward) is a gun owner, training his six kids in firearms safety fundamentals. This despite the fact that he grew up near Santa Cruz, California.

We cover a host of topics related to Philosophy, like philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, Plato versus Aristotle, Medieval Philosophy (which he specialized in under the famous medievalist scholar, Eleonore Stump at SLU), teaching college, firearms heritage, inculcating virtue in the kids, grade inflation, issues in Theology, like whether angels or demons are real, drug use, the occult, different Christian denominations in his California growing up years, etc.

It’s a wide-ranging discussion.

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The Honorable Mr. Kevin Muldoon, JD, the Mayor of Newport Beach in Orange County, California, joins The Republican Professor podcast today to talk about local California politics.

You’ve heard of “the Deep State”. Muldoon calls local government “the Shallow State.” Kevin has a great sense of humor.

Kevin started his career in politics in the George W. Bush White House (Executive Office Building), eventually going on to Law School in Orange County and then to the local prosecutor’s office after passing the Bar. He eventually went into business.

He graduated from a Loyola Marymount University in Lost Angeles (where Dr. Mather, TRP’s producer and host, also went and where Dr. Mather taught for a long time). Kevin was awarded the Dr. Singleton Award in Economics while at LMU.

He was recruited by locals to run for local office in Newport Beach and so he did back in 2014, and was elected to the part-time City Council position, where he has been since. He has been Mayor, before, and is currently serving as Mayor, having been selected for the position by his City Council elected colleagues.

I’ll bet you’ll learn something you didn’t know about local politics if you stick around.

“You don’t do it for the money.”

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Therefore, welcome Mr. Mayor of Newport Beach , California (Orange County), USA, Mr. Kevin Muldoon !

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Not many people can make Metaphysics interesting while not screwing you up , but then, not many people are Prof. Rob Koons, Ph.D of UT Austin.

Dr. Robert Koons, Ph.D (UCLA), full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas , Austin, joins us from his librarious (should be a word) university office to help walk us through the fundamentals of metaphysics.

Metaphysics is not what Barnes & Noble says it is. At least, not in the context of 20th Century Analytic Philosophy , or even the history of philosophy.

Rather, “metaphysics” is a technical term for a field within the discipline of Philosophy that refers to the study of Reality, how everything ultimately hangs together in existence, including what kinds of things there are, ultimately. Its focus is on being as such, rather than knowledge of being, on moral or aesthetic judgments .

He is the coauthor, along with Dr. Timothy Pickavance, of a book called Metaphysics: The Fundamentals (Wiley Blackwell Publishing) for the beginning upper-level metaphysics student . (It may also be useful for graduate students or professors).

The types of issues covered include Causation, Free Will, the nature of Time (is time travel possible ?), and the very nature of possibility and necessity, itself. It’s focused yet wide ranging, and so strap in and enjoy.

Please support your local book stores. But here is a Mississippi link so you know what to ask for at the book store that you walk into: https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Fundamentals-Philosophy-Robert-Koons/dp/1405195738/ref=sr_1_1?crid=15GP5DX66K3FY&keywords=fundamentals+of+metaphysics&qid=1660681637&sprefix=fundmentals+of+metaphysics%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1

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Therefore, welcome, Dr. Rob Koons, Ph.D., of the University of Texas (Austin) Philosophy Department, Metaphysics Mentor extraordinaire.

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Born out of wedlock, Southern California (LA County) native Karina Salcedo grew up for a time in the Spanish speaking garage of her grandma, and is now at the time of the recording (Summer 2022) she is 22 years old, married, and an intern for US Senator Ted Cruz at the US Senate Judiciary Committee, going into her 2nd year of law school at ASU.

A woman of Christian faith, she begins each day with the Lord in prayer and Bible study. She eats a great breakfast and works out 5 days a week, and goes to work on studying the Law.

With an increasingly sharp eye, Karina diagnoses what ails California. Key for her is the health of the family, its ability to make a living, and the faithfulness of government to the Constitution and natural law. (Natural law is the source of human rights).

Her church family goes shooting every weekend, her parents are still together, and are in fact married, her husband loves firearms and freedom, and she is loving the study of law and serving at the US Senate Judiciary Committee and Senator Ted Cruz (not Tom Cruise’s brother, we cleared that up).

She gives us the rundown of favorite Law school classes and what her routine is like being married, and a sense of the source of her ambition, which is to serve the country in a spirit of faithfulness to God.

Yes, we talk about immigration and Republican politics. And, yes, she is Hispanic. So she has some opinions, and so we get into that.

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Therefore, welcome, the youngest TRP guest so far, 22 year old 2 L law student, woman who reads her Bible everyday and US Senator intern for Ted Cruz, Karina Salcedo !

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Professor of Political Science Dr. Darren Guerra, Ph.D., shares his approach to teaching Political Science from a Christian perspective to undergraduates in Lost Angeles County, California.

Professor Guerra is a Constitutional Scholar who has thought deeply about the original purpose and wise design of key features of the US Constitution and Declaration. For example, one issue is, how slow the Amendment process is, is that justified to correct it? He has written a book about Article V of the original Constitution called “Perfecting the Constitution: the Case for the Article V Amendment Process” available at your local book dealer (please support brick and mortar local bookstores !) and here on Ganges: https://www.amazon.com/Perfecting-Constitution-Case-Amendment-Process-dp-1498515444/dp/1498515444/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1660537303

Guerra thinks it’s true slavery is wrong.

Professor Guerra (Italian, pronounced Gu-air-rah) is careful to get the students talking constructively with each other about fundamental issues prior to politics per se, issues that include basic epistemology: epistemic justification, the conditions for acquiring knowledge, and the definition of truth itself.

This political epistemology, as we might call it, is geared toward equipping the student to recover from and then withstand the nonsense of moral relativism, the absurdity of the so-called “fact-value” distinction, and its ancient neighbor, metaphysical naturalism or materialism. Pedagogically, sometimes, it means slowing way down and rethinking for ourselves our commitment to the truth of certain propositions with political relevance, such as murder is wrong, or that slavery is wrong.

In the American context, historically Democrats have long been skeptical of the truth of the statement that slavery is wrong (and hence, that murder of a slave is wrong), and clearly Democrats often still do maintain skepticism of the truth of such basic political statements. Presently, Biola University is surrounded by contemporary California Democrats. The temptation to fit in with them culturally and philosophically is enormously powerful for many, I imagine. Democrats control most of popular culture in California and beyond, including the disastrous government K-12 schools that squeeze out often inarticulate, incoherent metaphysical naturalists, materialists, relativists, in short, Democrat graduates, almost as if by design.

But Republicans have always held to to truth of the statement that slavery is wrong (any counterexamples ?). We have always insisted on the know-ability of that fact (see Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural, discussed here in this episode by Prof. Mather in a college evaluation anecdote of his own), and indeed, the modern Republican party was founded upon it in 1854, and fought a war in part over that issue. On one level it may be discouraging to have to continue, in a different form, to fight that philosophical battle, as it were, so to speak, yet again in the classroom or in the culture, sometimes it’s not clear how exactly that should go.

Dr. Darren Guerra is a master at crafting the curriculum to move the ball discernibly down the road to greater true progress. (The so-called “Progressive” “progress” quite often isn’t true progress). (It’s important to distinguish “progressivism” in name only from true progress).

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We’re back for PART TWO after a successful spring 2022 US Supreme Court term, joined again by 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.

In this episode, Chuck breaks down the impact of the recent Right to Bear Arms (RTBA) case at the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) handed down on Thurs 23 June 2022, NY Rifle & Pistol Assn v. Bruen (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf) and what California DOJ actually did after this ruling. They released private information on every law-abiding gun owner in California, including CCW holders who have proved a need for good cause, to world-wide criminals and terrorists — anyone with an internet connection.

There is a Blue Resistance to the ruling with this goal: to criminalize innocent conduct, making it harder for people to effectively defend themselves lawfully.
The flawed assumption remains: The police are your bodyguards with a duty to protect you. It’s not common knowledge, but that’s false . (This is easy to verify with a little sweat equity).

Chuck is the LA County-based Civil Rights attorney who prevailed at the 9th Circuit in the initial 3 judge panel which issued an opinion of the Court that is FAMOUS in California for being powerfully argued & beautifully written 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. SCOTUS in Bruen now changes everything for that en banc reversal.

Recall, Chuck is nationally famous as the California “Freedom Week” attorney, which, if you don’t remember, within the span of a few days in 2019, brought 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines into California. The District 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.

One can support the California Rifle and Pistol Association 501(c)3 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.

Be sure to check out Chuck’s book, “California Gun Laws: A Guide to State and Federal Firearms Regulation” 2022 9th Edition here (remember to use AmazonSmile so that a charity gets part of the $).

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 Original Three Judge Panel Opinion) : 742 F. 3d 1144 – Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2014.

The 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 9th Circuit 3-Judge panel op: Duncan v. Becerra, 970 F. 3d 1133 – Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2020.

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Therefore, welcome attorney Chuck Michel, pro-bono president of the 140-year-old California Rifle & Pistol Association.

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