By Lucas J. Mather This short article is a gentle reminder that the answer to the question embedded in the title is answered in the Thanksgiving episode of The Republican Professor Podcast, 2022. The guest was the distinguished Dr. Daniel Dreisbach, J.D., D.Phil. In his TRP interview, Dreisbach sounds to me like he’s preaching, in… Read more »
by Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. These are just some ways to tell if your professor is a Republican. In the future, we also ought to explore whether being a Republican is the same thing as being a conservative. The two terms are used interchangeably, but are they the same thing ? Luke, for The Republican… Read more »
By Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. I am a Republican Professor, on campuses where there aren’t many professors who are Republicans. Today, I’m listening to the oral arguments today at the Supreme Court (US) in the Second Amendment challenge that the Democrats are appealing. I’m also reading through the 7th Circuit panel decision overturning a… Read more »
By Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., The Republican Professor TRP Podcast Host Back on June 14, 2018, an episode of the podcast “Think Biblically” featured an ancient Hebrew language scholar on the language and meaning of the passages in the biblical literature most relevant to the issue of open borders and mass immigration today. I… Read more »
Mr. Alan Gottlieb, Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) joins us today to pay tribute to the late Sam Slom, who was elected to the Hawai’i State Senate when TRP’s producer and host (Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.) lived in Hawai’i. In fact, Dr. Mather recalls passing Slom’s campaign or senate office either in… Read more »
By Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., TRP Podcast Host, International Relations professor In many respects, teaching now is harder than it was 15 years ago. I taught Terrorism and Political Philosophy back in 2008 for the first time. My students had personal memories of terrorist attacks on American soil. But they were too young to… Read more »
By Lucas J. Mather The Republican Professor is on Instagram. The web address is https://www.instagram.com/the_republican_professor/ and the handle is @the_republican_professor . Mostly it’s used to share social and political commentary by photograph, and to share the goings on of TRP podcast. Luke, for The Republican Professor Warmly, Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. The Republican Professor PodcastThe… Read more »
I Refuse to Call it X: Feels Weird By Lucas J. Mather Of course, Twitter is weird, so it’s especially weird for me that I would have any brand loyalty at all, let alone enough to avoid calling it its new weird name, X. But here I am, I can do none other, to paraphrase… Read more »
By Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Here’s Why The way the episode came about is a story in spontaneity and curiosity. My wife and I love used bookstores. Most of the best books have been published long before now. And I came across Carol’s book on Phyllis Schlafly. It was published in 1981 and was… Read more »
by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. I had the good fortune to spend some quality time again with Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D., on The Republican Professor (TRP) Podcast again today. Today’s recording featured what I believe is the best Second Amendment academic textbook in print by my lights. The book is called “America’s… Read more »