Episodes

July 11, 2023

Religious Liberty, Foreign Policy, International Relations w/ Matias Perttula, America First Policy Institute, Arlington, Virginia (TRP Episode 137)

Our guest today is Matias Perttula, author of a recent piece on Religious Liberty and International Relations for the America First Policy Institute, a non-profit educational organization.

The piece is called “ISSUE BRIEF: Religious Freedom Challenges Transcend the International and Domestic Divide” available here : https://americafirstpolicy.com/latest/issue-brief-religious-freedom-challenges-transcend-the-international-and-domestic-divide

It discusses the issue of religious liberty both here and abroad.

The bilingual (Finnish and English) Mr. Pertula was born in Australia but grew up in Finland before coming to Lost Angeles. At the college level he studied Political Philosophy and Symbolic Logic at Moorpark College (as a student of the TRP host) in Southern California before transferring to UCLA for his bachelors. He later finished an MBA at Southeastern, working in higher education before transitioning into international politics at Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. for several years.

Matias is now the Director of the Center for American Values at America First Policy Institute.

The Republican Professor is a pro-religious-liberty-properly-understood podcast.

Therefore, welcome Mr. Matias Perttula !

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

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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July 7, 2023

Continued: A Conversation About Liberty w/ @ChartingLiberty ‘s Dale Fincher part B

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… Continued …

For many years he was @VoiceoftheSecond on Instagram, writing about the queen of the liberties, as it were : The Second Amendment. TRP Podcast hosted him twice last year on the topic of spiritual abuse and gun control.

Mr. Dale Fincher, in preparation for going to sea with his family next year, has begun @ChartingLiberty. This is the first part of our first conversation. We talk about taxes and Jesus and rendering unto Ceasar and all sorts of stuff like that.

This is the first in a new weekly series.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Charting-Liberty podcast.

Therefore, welcome author, speaker Mr. Dale Fincher.

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

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TRP is also on Rumble and Vimeo backing up things YouBoob claims are , and I quote, reminiscent of the first minute of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, “egregious harm.”

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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July 7, 2023

A Conversation About Liberty w/ @ChartingLiberty ‘s Dale Fincher part A

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This is the first in a new weekly series.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Charting-Liberty podcast.

Therefore, welcome author, speaker Mr. Dale Fincher.

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

Subscribe here and on the substack for more information,

TRP is also on Rumble and Vimeo backing up things YouBoob claims are , and I quote, reminiscent of the first minute of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, “egregious harm.”

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

July 4, 2023

A Real-Life Magnum PI: Mr. Phil Little, President of West Coast Detectives, Author of “Hostile Intent,” & Father of Former Logic Student of Prof. Lucas J. Mather at Pierce College, Woodland Hills, Calif.

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Mr. Phil Little is not the first guest on TRP Podcast who’s been shot at by terrorists, but it’s a fairly small group of guests that “enjoy” that distinction. Our guest today is the long-time chief of West Coast Detectives, originally an LA-based private investigative and counter-terrorism agency with offices in several foreign countries that is several decades old.

Mr. Little was a special guest speaker in Dr. Mather’s Pepperdine University School of Business course “Business Ethics and Public Policy”, Fall 2009 in Malibu, California. He’s also the father of one of Dr. Mather’s Logic-in-Practice students at Pierce College (Woodland Hills in the Valley, LA) in Fall 2009.

Mr. Little is the author of “Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself From Terrorism,” about his life as an investigator and head of a growing, private intelligence gathering firm working with public entities on counter-terrorism since the 1970s.

Enjoy !

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 30, 2023

A New England Painter’s Exhibit on Masks & Lockdowns w/ Watercolorist Jonalyn Fincher of Exeter, New Hampshire (TRP Episode 134)

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Jonalyn Fincher is a New England-based painter who has taken on the challenge of commenting on Covid-19 and the response to it as a way to process grief and trauma. Jonalyn invites dialogue as a part of the exhibit for her Exeter, New Hampshire Community.

She uses carefully thought-out , expertly crafted watercolor to prompt reflection, healing, and dialogue. She’s aiming for a deeper community solidarity than existed prior to the lock-downs and mask mandates.

Jonalyn is a gentle soul attentive to the power of beauty to bring healing and community out of trauma and destruction.

Check her out at her website, https://jonalynfincher.com/ or on Instagram at @Jonalyn_Fincher and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JonalynFincherArtStudio .

The free show starts in July so if you’re in or near Exeter, New Hampshire, take a look in person. No matter what your experience , you’re welcome there for dialogue.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 27, 2023

Part 4 of The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics: Obergefell 101 w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. (TRP Episode 133)

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This is Part 4 of The Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics.

Dr. Mather presents parts from his paper “Two Types of Marriage Equality: A Normative Analysis of Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)”.

It takes a look at Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and Reynolds v. United States (1879). Specifically, Dr. Mather provides a theoretical framework by which to understand the essence of Obergefell, including a distillation of the legal rule the Court relied on but never explicitly stated: what Dr. Mather calls “the contemporary ‘marriage’ equality assumption”: The Essence of Marriage must become malleable to allow for the expression of minority sexual orientations within marriage.

At the time of the decision, according to friend of the Court briefs, Bisexuality is a minority sexual orientation. Homosexuality is a minority sexual orientation. Therefore, according to this legal rule, both must be expressible in a marriage definition, and any necessary condition of marriage from classical marriage equality must give way.

Prior to this set of cases leading up to Obergefell, marriage was like the Rock of Gibraltar, unchanging in its essence, and against it, the waves of sexual orientation were dashed. That essence was protected and recognized in law for millenia as a natural-law relationship, accorded respect in the Common Law and before, a special, univocal, coherent, sui generis definition of a type of relationship that not everyone was interested in or wanted to participate in: A union between a man and a woman, typically recognized by Law, by which a they become husband and wife for life. That concept matured into seven necessary conditions (discussed here), what Dr. Mather calls the necessary essence of Classical Marriage Equality.

But no one was punished for not being married.

Marriage took on a famous status recognized in the Goodrich Court (Massachusetts, 2003), as we saw in prior episodes, as “a vital social institution.” And not by accident. Not arbitrarily. (How could something so vital be at the same time arbitrary ? The Goodrich Court (and Obergefell) never seemed to see that question was posable but not answerable by their analyses.)

But some wanted the fame associated with the mere spelling and were willing to shank the lexical essence to get that spelling to apply to something they were interested in. The secondary definition of the same spelling, what Dr. Mather calls M2, “any close union,” is in very old dictionaries right along side what he calls M1 (classical marriage equality), has now replaced M1 in law across the nation in Obergefell. That’s because the Court invented, and then used the legal rule, what Dr. Mather calls “the contemporary marriage (M2, not M1, equivocating on the spelling “marriage”, begging the question against M1) assumption.” Now the Rock of Gibraltar isn’t marriage, the concept or the mere spelling of the syllables. The Rock of Gibraltar, according to Goodrich through Obergefell, is Sexual Orientation, and upon that Rock, the definition of marriage is dashed.

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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 23, 2023

Adoption and Foster Care In the Wake of Roe’s Reversal w/ Herbie Newell, Lifeline Children Services, Birmingham, Alabama (TRP Episode 131)

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It’s been one year since Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and so alternatives to abortion, such as adoption, is on our minds here at The Republican Professor podcast.

Today’s special guest is Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children Services in Alabama. He has seen young women in blue states, not just red states, reach out for support in choosing continued Life for their unborn children. It’s a great time to reflect on the importance of the support young, vulnerable families face now that abortion has become, thankfully, unthinkable for so many.

We discuss the importance and historical, classically understood design of the family and how we can best match that in the United States when vulnerable young women are faced with the tremendous stress and challenge of seeking care for her unexpected, precious child.

Mr. Newell takes us through some of the options available through his organization, including other options as well by comparison, for any families that sense the call for care and concern for children in need.

Check out
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@LifelineChild on
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The Republican Professor is a pro-life, pro-Roe-reconciliation, pro-healthy-family podcast

Therefore, welcome Herbie Newell, President of Lifeline Children Services, Birmingham, Alabama

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

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 20, 2023

Part 3 of The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics: The Analogy Between Racially Desegregating Marriage & Inventing a Brand New Definition w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D

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This is Part 3 of a multipart series on The Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics, Dr. Lucas J. Mather takes us through criteria for evaluating arguments by analogy in Iriving Copi’s Introduction to Logic, 10th ed., chapter 13.

We look at the analogy between between inventing a new definition of marriage under the guise of progress and desegregating marriage .

The Republican Professor is a pro-defining-marriage-correctly, pro-analogies, pro-comparing-things, anti-alethophobia podcast.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 16, 2023

Part 2 of The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics: Intro to Logical Fallacies w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. (TRP Episode 130)

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This is part 2 of the series on The Definition of Marriage in Public Law & American Politics.

Dr. Mather provides introductory instruction on the concept of a logical fallacy. Professor Mather then focuses on specific instruction in 3 informal logical fallacies from Irving Copi’s 10th Edition of Introduction to Logic:

1) Ad Hominem, Abusive
2) Begging the Question
3) Equivocation

He provides a brief introduction on their relevance to the legal materials (e.g., judicial opinions) in the definition of marriage in public law and American politics.

The Republican Professor is a pro-nailing the Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics podcast.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 12, 2023

Introduction to The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. (TRP Episode 129)

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In this first episode of a multi-part series, Professor Mather introduces us to the nature of definitions as he covers it in Introductory Logic courses, and their theoretical and practical relevance to the legal materials in the so-called “marriage equality” debate in American Law and Politics.

Dr. Mather takes us through several dictionary definitions of marriage, and through Irving Copi’s “Introduction to Logic” section on criteria for lexical definitions, covering some technical terminology. He also answers some preliminary objections students and faculty have had to his covering this material at all in any depth, detail, or rigor . Throughout, Dr. Mather cites his sources and illustrates how students can follow along in the legal materials as they seek to find their own well-thought-out positions on the matters related to this topic of The Definition of Marriage in American Law and Politics.

Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. is producer and host of The Republican Professor Podcast. Dr. Mather has designed and taught 188 college and university courses as a professor from Malibu to Gangland, USA over nearly 20 years, a huge portion of which have been Logic courses applied to public policy and Constitutional Law. He holds 7 earned degrees, including 4 masters degrees in disciplines as diverse as Chinese Mandarin to Bio-Medical Ethics, culminating in a Ph.D. in Public Law & American Politics from The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California.

Before he spent 6 years in seminary, he served in the United States Navy for seven years as a Naval Aircrewman, Linguist, Analyst, Special Operations intel operator, and later support staff for foreign language education and training for the National Security Agency.

He serves on staff at his local church in Orange County, California.

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