The Republican Professor

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 review of the Princeton University Press monograph by Princeton professors Stephen Macedo and Francis Lee called "In COVID's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us."

Bessette was one of my Ph.D. professors at Claremont Colleges.

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

We cover Justice Thomas' Concurring Opinion for the Court today for Part 5 (Episode 16) of this deep dive as we continue the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) decision that overruled Chevron (1984), Justice Thomas' concurring Opinion for the Court.

We have one more part in this Deep Dive after this one to do the concurrence by Gorsuch. This is the 16th Chevron Deference Deep Dive episode we've done on TRP podcast since winter 2024. And here it is winter 2026.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf

(603 U.S. _____ (2024) of the Opinion of the Court written by Chief Justice Roberts.

We will pick up with the Gorsuch's Republican concurrence in Loper Bright next time.

Today's episode includes readings from Psalm 104 (RSV) and 25 January in Streams in the Desert (Cowman Publications Lost Feliz Station Lost Angeles, California 1925 non-woke original edition).

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This is Part 3.

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 up at page 13 through to the end of chapter 1 called "Victims Revolution on Campus." We do a fair use and a transformative reading of a book I encountered in high screwel at Chatfield High Screwel in Jefferson County, Littleton, Colorado in 1991. I wrote an article about it in my high screwel newspaper, the Chatfield Charter.

This is in a series of TRP backstory episodes on The Republican Professor podcast.

I believe I originally used my paper route money to buy the book myself at Summit Ministries in Summer 1991 in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Thanks to my Grandpa Mather for sending me those 4 years.

The book is "Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus" (NY, New York: Free Press, 1991) by a very young Dinesh D'Souza.

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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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This is part 6 in the series. (Part 5 was the episode on Dec 2, 2025). We're continuing our discussion of the chapter called "Sex." Chapter 3.

We discuss his next sub-chapters starting at "The Feminine Mystique" on page 42 and going up to but not including the discussion of Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court on page 53ff.

This is a continuation of a transformative reading and fair use of Chris Caldwell's "The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties" published by Simon and Schuster in 2020.

We'd like to thank Chris Caldwell for writing it, Simon and Schuster for making it available, and encourage you to purchase your own physical copy of the book so that you can follow along. Please support brick and mortar book dealers, you local book dealers.

I'd like to thank my former political philosophy student Matt Stone (Phil M03: Social and Political Philosophy at Moorpark College, Spring 2008) for purchasing my copy of the book for me and supporting TRP podcast.

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The March 2003 issue of Reason Magazine carried an article by Sara Rimensnyder styled as "The Art of Self Defense: Gun Control on Trial," was about the story of how a 9mm semi-auto handgun, concealed illegally in a backpack, saved Tom Palmer's life from a dozen thugs in Lost Angeles. His mother gave him the weapon for self-defense. Democrats wanted to take it away. A Republican judge in 2014 applied a set of rulings by Republican justices on the Supreme Court, justices who'd been appointed by Republican presidents and Republicans in the US Senate.

We're covering Tom Palmer, et. al., v. D.C. (2014)(26 July 2014).

Here's a link to the Reason article referenced above from 2003: https://reason.com/2003/03/01/the-art-of-self-defense-2/

Here's a link to the decision in Tom Palmer's favor: https://michellawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Palmer-v.-District-of-Columbia_Memorandum-Decision-and-Order-re-Plaintiffs-Motion-for-Summary-Judgment-and-Defendants-Cross-Motion-for-Summary-Judgment.pdf

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