Episodes

This is the second snippet from TRP’s 2022 interview with Professor Yoo. John Yoo has taught at UC Berkeley School of Law for nearly 30 years and is the author most recently of Defender In Chief: Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, the focus of the interview.

This is Episode 29 of The Republican Professor, originally published on March 23, 2022. https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/03/23/episode-29-trump-presidential-power-prof-john-yoo-u-c-berkeley-school-of-law/

TRP interviews UC Berkeley Professor of Law John Yoo, author of Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. and this episode is co-hosted by Mr. Kurtis Olson .

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John Yoo has taught at UC Berkeley School of Law for nearly 30 years and is the author most recently of Defender In Chief: Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power.

This is Episode 29 of The Republican Professor, originally published on March 23, 2022. https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/03/23/episode-29-trump-presidential-power-prof-john-yoo-u-c-berkeley-school-of-law/

TRP interviews UC Berkeley Professor of Law John Yoo, author of Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. and this episode is co-hosted by Mr. Kurtis Olson .

The Republican Professor Podcast
The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack

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https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/
https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/articles/
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Mr. Rich Bordner joins TRP for the second time to talk about what it’s like teaching Public High School Philosophy and Bible classes.

Mr. Bordner is a professional with many years of experience both as a teacher and as a star head coach in California and Texas public high schools.

The Republican Professor is a pro-creating-a-culture-of-honesty-in-high-school-class-room podcast.

Therefore, welcome Mr. Rich Bordner, public high school teacher extraordinaire !

For more information on Mr. Bordner’s work outside of the classroom, off campus he runs (with his wife) The Daniel Collaborative. Visit https://www.danielcollaborative.com/ for more information. To reach Mr. Bordner, you can email info@thedanielcollaborative.com

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

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TRP Classic Shorts: TRP Interviews Brad Cummings, Film Producer, Publisher of The Shack and General Editor of The Founder’s Bible (Shiloh Road Press).

Full episode published 4 March 2022

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Dr. Matthew J. Peterson, Ph.D. (@docMJP on Twitter) is a former colleague of Dr. Mather’s at Loyola Marymount University in LA and at Pepperdine University in Malibu. He recently moved from California to Texas to try to help to save America. And he tells us why.

The Republican Professor is a pro-excellent-professor, pro-American-Firebrand podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Matthew J. Peterson, Ph.D.

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

Dr. Blake McAllister joins The Republican Professor podcast from his huge office at Hillsdale College in Michigan to talk about Common Sense Epistemology (the theory of what knowledge is and concepts associated with it, like faith, evidence, truth, belief, rationality, etc.).

We discuss, among other things, what kind of wonderful student Blake was back when he took Logic from Professor Lucas J. Mather back in Fall of 2008 at Pepperdine University in Malibu, where Blake did his undergraduate degree.

Epistemology is absolutely critical in our day and age — in every day and age. This is time-less stuff.

Hope you enjoy.

This is Season 2 (Episode 119) of The Republican Professor Podcast. TRP is also on Rumble because YouTube randomly takes our videos down for saying a wrong word (not kidding — see more on TRP Substack).

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The Republican Professor is a pro-common-sense, pro-religious-epistemology, pro-wonderful-former-students podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Blake McAllister, Ph.D., of Hillsdale College Philosophy Department, Hillsdale, Michigan

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

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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Dr. David Yamane, Ph.D., grew up in Central Coast, California, attending Berkeley for undergraduate. He earned a Ph.D. at the Berkeley of Wisconsin in Madison in one of the least Republican disciplines in college, Sociology. Going against the grain, he developed a college course on firearms and gun culture that required students to go the the firing range.

Dr. Yamane shares some of his personal story about his attitude toward firearms, both personally and as a subject of professional inquiry.

He blogs at Gun Curious, and his work has been featured by the Facebook group “The Liberal Gun Club” (which I, Lucas Mather, follow).

Here is a link to his blog : https://guncurious.wordpress.com/

Be prepared to expand your mind and your soul.

The Republican Professor is a pro-teaching-firearms-courses-in-college, pro-transformed-healthy-attitudes-toward-guns, pro-friendly-interparty-dialogue podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. David Yamane, Ph.D., of the Wake Forest University Sociology Department !

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

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Here is a new look at the presidency of Gerald Ford and the post-Watergate era, through the lens of the US Constitution’s Separation of Powers. And to walk us through that material with fresh eyes, we have Dr. Alex Hindman, Ph.D., a professor at College of the Holy Cross (where Clarence Thomas went for his undergrad) in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Dr. Hindman has a book called “Gerald Ford and the Separation of Powers: Preserving the Constitutional Presidency in the Post-Watergate Period”, published by Lexington Press, and that is the focus of our conversation.
The book is on Amazon. But please support your local book dealer.

As an aside, one of the members of my dissertation committee, the late great Michael Uhlmann, served as a political appointee high up in the Department of Justice in the Ford Administration. He was Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General, and the other Assistant Attorney General he served with under Ford was a man named Antonin Scalia, who later became a professor, a federal appellate judge in the D.C. Circuit under Reagan, and then, of course, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Their friendship I think began there serving under Ford.

The Republican Professor is a pro-looking-at-the-presidency-with-fresh-eyes, pro-Separation-of-Powers, pro-Constitutional-contemplation podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Alex Hindman, Ph.D., of College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts !

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

Dr. Garrett Pendergraft has a very subtle, sophisticated dry humor that he peppers into his academic writing, on display in his book on Free Will Puzzles.

The book is called “Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments”, part of the Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments in Philosophy Series published by Routledge Academic Press this year. You can find the book on Amazon .

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Garrett and I sample a smattering of cases from the book, and have a good time doing so.

There’s something here for the novice and expert alike, and everything in between for those with the intellectual virtue of curiosity and an attention span.

The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-clear-about-Free-Will, pro-moral-responsibility, pro-puzzling-over-puzzles, pro-Philosophy-done-right, pro-subtle-and-sophisticated-sense-of-humor podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Garrett Pendergraft, Ph.D., Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Philosophy at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

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

Teacher Sam, an entrepreneur in LA who was my (Dr. Mather’s) former student at Loyola Marymount University, Lost Angeles, makes her second appearance on The Republican Professor (link to her first episode here : https://youtu.be/SAvi4BpSGRc) , this time with her brother in Sweden.

They grew up Muslim and became war refugees in Europe at a very young age. They ended up in Sweden, where they learned Swedish and English. Samra then ended up in Lost Angeles and in my college Philosophy classroom. After college graduation, she started her own business ! She speaks several languages and helps her students do the same.

Teacher Sam founded and runs LA-based Maverick Lingo, which you can check out here : https://www.mavericklingo.com/

Our conversation is wide-ranging and impactful.

The Republican Professor is a pro-lawful-immigrant, pro-entrepreneur, pro-second-language-learner, pro-awesome-teacher, pro-long-friendship, pro-sibling podcast.

Therefore, welcome Teacher Sam of Maverick Lingo in LA, my former student, and her wonderful brother Mirza joining us from Sweden !

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

If you enjoyed this episode, I’m happy.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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