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01:11:41

250th Anniversary of the USA Ep. 1: Dr. Martin...

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2026/04/15

Episode 1 in the series marking the 250th Anniversary of the USA in this second quarter 2026.Martin Diamond channels Alexis de Tocqueville in raging against the grade-inflation machine back before IA, before much of the grade inflation crap got off the ground. We're making a fair use, transformative reading and discussion of Martin Diamond's 1970 "Reading in an Age of Mass Democracy", which is in a section called "'Enclaves of Excellence' and the Study of Politics" as essay number 16, made

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01:07:53

Basic Political Philosophy 5: ARISTOTLE on Sparta,...

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2026/04/11

We continue Jaffa's discussion of Aristotle's Politics, this time finishing his take on Aristotle's Book II and beginning with his take on Aristotle's Book III, in our discussion of an entry in the 1963 Rand McNally publication, edited by Leonard Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, called "History of Political Philosophy." This episode contains discussion of pages 89 thru the top of page 97 covering the first part of Book II of the Politics. That entry on Aristotle is by Harry V. Jaffa, who famously

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00:46:52

Federal Judge Roger T. Benitez Strikes Down CA...

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2026/04/09

Part 4: On the 22nd of December 2025, Republican appointed federal Judge Roger Benitez (Cuban ethnicity) struck down the Democrat mandated lying to parents in the K-12 school system. We covered it beginning in late December 2025 and in a second episode in late January 2026. The third episode, the last one before this one, was 17 March 2026. Unusual behavior or conduct of a student at school isn't grounds for a violation of Constitutional rights, Benitez held in Mirabelli v. Olson (Filed 22 Dec

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01:11:25

History of Israel and the Nations part 5 - Elijah,...

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2026/04/03

Part 5 of a series on the history of Israel based on a fair use and transformative reading of "Israel and the Nations: From the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple" (Eerdmans, 1963) by FF Bruce. This episode includes interaction with the famous historical characters of Elijah and Elisha in his chapter V entitled "The House of Omri 881 to 841 BC" by the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, FF Bruce, my intellectual and spiritual grandfather because he mentored my professor

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00:47:17

Workmen Associations, Civil Society, and the State in...

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2026/04/02

Part 8: We continue our timely coverage of Pope Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum numbers 36 through the end of 45 in his continued condemnation of Socialism and collectivism against the individual rights of employers, workers and families in 1891, when Socialism was increasingly popular in intellectual circles, setting the stage for the statisms of the 1900s. The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-theology's-application-to-public-policy-correct podcast. The Republican Professor is produced and

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01:00:07

Chevron Deference Doctrine Deep Dive Part 6a: Justice...

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2026/03/29

We cover Justice Gorsuch's Concurring Opinion for the Court today for Episode 17 of this deep dive as we continue the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) decision that overruled Chevron (1984), Justice Gorsuch's concurring Opinion for the Court.This is the 17th Chevron Deference Deep Dive episode we've done on TRP podcast since winter 2024. And here it is Spirng 2026. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf (603 U.S. _____ (2024) of the Opinion of the Court written

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00:55:56

She Ran for Local School Board And Won -- Ohio's...

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2026/03/27

Part 2: Karen Humphries joins us 4 years later for Part 2 in a series on getting elected to local School Board in Ohio. She's just been reelected this past Fall 2025, having first been elected to the position in 2017. The Republicans need to come to terms with what the plan is with public education. A good first step is having a good School Board in place, no matter what you think about homeschooling and vouchers and the plethora of other issues in public funding of education. Interested in

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01:04:30

Sex -- Roe v. Wade, Equal Rights Amendment: The Age...

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2026/03/24

This is part 7 in the series. (Part 6 was the episode on 5 Feb, 2026). We're continuing our discussion of the chapter called "Sex." Chapter 3. We finish that chapter today. The next chapter is War. We discuss his sub-chapters starting at "Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court" on page 53 and discuss the book Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Equal Rights Amendment, both titles of subsections in the chapter on Sex. This is a continuation of a transformative reading and fair use of Chris Caldwell's "The

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00:57:03

Natural Law and the New Right v. The Constitution...

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2026/03/19

Part 4: The Natural Law provides a key to resolving a Republican debate in the 1980s on the normative judicial power, Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint. We discussed the first part of the second chapter last time (8 Jan 2026) and this time we continue with the second half of Chapter 2, pp. 16 to through 23.Stephen Macedo published "The New Right v. The Constitution" with The CATO Institute in 1986. We're going to make a fair use and do a transformative reading of the book. CATO offers a

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00:52:46

George W. Bush Appointed Federal Judge Roger Benitez...

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2026/03/17

Part 3: On the 22nd of December 2025, Republican appointed federal Judge Roger Benitez (Cuban ethnicity) struck down the Democrat mandated lying to parents in the K-12 school system. We covered it beginning in late December 2025 and in a second episode in late January 2026Unusual behavior or conduct of a student at school isn't grounds for a violation of Constitutional rights, Benitez held in Mirabelli v. Olson (Filed 22 Dec 2025), available here :

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00:00:00

Natural Law, Private Property and The Very Nature of...

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2026/03/13

This is Part 10 in a series celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Harvard University Press' 1985 publication of Richard A. Epstein's "Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain."We continue our celebration of this anniversary with a fair use and transformative reading, taking a close look at ch. 5 continuing in the same section which Richard calls ""Takings Prima Facia," which makes the analogy between private law takings in the common law harm tradition and the public law takings

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01:11:11

More Equal Than Others: Admissions Policy at...

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2026/03/11

This is Part 4. We want to thank Free Press for making this material available and thank D'Souza for writing it. Thank you, Dinesh. We continue our discussion of Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (NY, NY: Free Press, 1991) starting chapter 2, called "More Equal Than Others: Admissions Policy at Berkeley," getting through to page 32 at the top. We do a fair use and a transformative reading of a book I encountered in high screwel at Chatfield High Screwel

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00:45:47

Hillsdale's Imprimis Jan 2026: Learning From...

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2026/03/06

We're discussing the 55th Volume, Number 1 of Hillsdale College's excellent publication called Imprimis, which is free, all you have to do is sign up for it and they send it to you in the mail. 7.3 million have wisely elected to do so, including me. This one was published in January 2026 called "Learning From Minnesota's Somali Fraud Scandal," by Scott W. Johnson, whose short bio we cover. We do a fair use and a transformative reading in our discussion and teaching of this free material. We'd like

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01:18:55

Prof. Thielicke (ThD, PhD Philosophy) on the Demonism...

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2026/03/04

Part 11. We're continuing from 13 January 2026, discussing the second subsection in his chapter 5 (The Relation of Ideological Tyranny to the Authoritarian State), called "The Demonism of Ideologized Christianity" based on the insights from a master observer of both types of totalitarian socialisms on the Left, national socialism -- sometimes called fascism -- and the kind of socialism that the Communists in East Germany and Russia had during the 1900s, during the life of Dr. Thielicke. (USSR meant

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01:01:30

Individual Liberty and Separation of Powers: Brett...

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2026/02/28

Part 11: We're using the slip opinion this time, see below for a link. Why the Court's majority is wrong in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia (2020) (part 11 in a series) about the faulty assumption that unexamined and unexplained transgenderism premises about sex and gender are properly included under "sex discrimination" language in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act --This continues to be a real hoot. Part 11: We continue our in-depth examination of sex, gender, and separation of powers in

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00:32:38

Pt2 Language: The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic,...

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2026/02/25

We're continuing our discussion of The Trivium today in conversation with Sister Miriam Joseph, Ph.D., who joins us through her writing teaching ministry in "The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric" originally published in 1937. We're discussing the first section of her second chapter. That chapter is called The Nature and Function of Language. We'd like to thank Sister Miriam Joseph for writing this and we'd like to thank Paul Dry Books 2002 for making this particular

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01:02:47

On Tariffs: "Let's Not Do That Again" by Chris...

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2026/02/21

Claremont Review of Books published an issue in Spring 2025 called "Let's Not Do That Again: President Trump's Trade War Could Have Ended Badly" on pp. 17 through 21.We're doing a fair use and transformative reading of the essay in one of my favorite publications. This is an engagement with an essay by Christopher Caldwell, one of my favorite writers on American Politics, The piece is accessible to the public at https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/lets-not-do-that-again/ Kesler, Editor of the

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00:54:56

Baird v. Bonta (2026) Ninth Circuit Defends Open...

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2026/02/19

We continue our study of open carry in America's Constitutional tradition by spending more time today with Baird v. Bonta (2 Jan 2026, 9th Circuit) from the top of page 11 (Roman Numeral II) through to the top of page 27 (up to Roman Numeral V). The pro-Second-Amendment opinions, both of them that we take a look at, were written by Republican appointees (Trump, Republican US Senate).We will pick up at page 27 and Roman Numeral V next time. This episode and this series is dedicated to the memory

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01:09:54

History of Israel and the Nations part 4 - What to...

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2026/02/17

Part 4 of a series on the history of Israel based on a fair use and transformative reading of "Israel and the Nations: From the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple" (Eerdmans, 1963) by FF Bruce. This episode includes interaction with his chapter IV entitled "Solomon and His Successors 970 to 881 BC" by the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, FF Bruce, my intellectual and spiritual grandfather because he mentored my professor Bruce Demarest who himself studied under FF Bruce

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02:04:52

Princeton Univ Press Book Takes Down Democrats: In...

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2026/02/13

We're doing a fair use and transformative reading of part of an essay in one of my favorite publications. This is an engagement with an essay by Dr. Joseph M. Bessette, Ph.D., a member of my Ph.D. dissertation committee in Public Law and American Politics at The Claremont Colleges, one of my favorite professors like evar and one of my favorite writers on American Politics. The essay is entitled "Unmasked" in Fall 2025/Winter 2026 Claremont Review of Books pp,. 117-122 of the print edition. It's a

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