Dr. Mark Andrew Holowchak TRP Interview! (4/17/20)

We would like to welcome back to the program, Jeffersonian Hero, Dr. Mark Andrew Holowchak—philosopher, historian, and editor of, The Journal of Thomas Jefferson’s Life and Times. He is author/editor of 15 books—with several more to come—and well over 100 published essays on Thomas Jefferson. He is also author of many other books and numerous essays on psychotherapy, Greek/Roman philosophy, ethics, philosophy of education, philosophy of sport, and critical thinking, among other things. He passes his time in the study of Jefferson’s mind and is currently retired after 33 years of teaching philosophy, classics, history, philosophy of science, and psychology.

The preeminent Jeffersonian scholar of our time returns to TRP to discuss the censorship he continues to face as he dares to apply reason and objective thinking to the historiography of Thomas Jefferson!

One of the books he is currently working is, The Scholars' Thomas Jefferson: Essential Writings.

Dr. Holowchak thanks again for coming back on the program and also helping us honor Thomas Jefferson's 277th birthday which was this past Monday April 13th!

1. Dr. Holowchek fills us in as to what has been going on since we spoke last year concerning his plight with the "oppressive Leftist orthodoxy" running Monticello... Have his books been allowed there as of yet and have they been open to fact based discussion?
2. Is the "Hemmings Cult" still calling Jefferson a racist?
3. Is it true Charlottesville Virginia is no longer celebrating the great Jefferson's birthday and that they are now celebrating something called "Slave Liberation day??"
4. In light of what is going on right now... What was the extent of and what were Jefferson's thoughts & suggestions to help mitigate epidemics like the "great yellow fever epidemic of 1793" in Philadelphia?
5. Thomas Jefferson was a polymath. The scale and vastness of his incredibly regimented learning schedule is remarkable! The work ethic he practiced daily for fulfillment is inspiring in scope and accomplishment! "Conceptual" not just "perceptual" thinking every day for such a long extended period!
6. How much work and effort does it take to really know Thomas Jefferson the man? Do you need to be a polymath to be a Jefferson scholar?
7. How many books did Jefferson read in his lifetime? How about all the thousands of letters he wrote and answered to everyone both public & private? What style and how in-depth were they? What were the letters to his family and daughters like?
8. Jefferson very virtuously never desired for any of his voluminous inventions to be patented!
9. Jefferson had an "incredible interest in the interest of life..." ...Believing men are to be set free to be "truly industrious" in the greatest possible capacity, moving toward the ever expanding light of knowledge & "Free Enterprise!"
10. Thomas Jefferson was a "Man of Action" grounded in idealism and common sense combining to "champion the rights and accomplishments of virtuous men..."
11. There has been much debate among historians about what type of religion, if any, Jefferson practiced?
12. What is the actual evidence when it comes to the paternity of Sally Hemmings' children? Was it all a myth created by disgruntled polemicist James Callender & first put forward by Jefferson's political arch-rivals? 
13. Jefferson was hiding mulatto children at his house! (Not his own and decades before Sally Hemmings' children were born...) His father-in-law's (John Wayles) illegitimate children with slave concubine Betty Hemmings! ...(Sally Hemmings was their daughter. She and 5 of her siblings along with their future children all lived at Monticello starting in 1773 after John Wayles' death...)  
14. What's the difference between a "modern liberal", "classical liberal" & a "Jeffersonian Republican?"
15. Why did Jefferson create the Jefferson Bible and why did he promote a "wall of separation between church and state?"
16. In what letter did Jefferson famously write, "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
17. What was the sum total of Jefferson's morality and his "moral sense?"
18. What were Jefferson's thoughts of John Adams & Alexander Hamilton?
19. Is "the city dwellers" versus "the farmers" paradigm still applicable today?
20. How everything in "Jeffersonian Republicanism" is still applicable today!

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Dr. Mark Andrew Holowchak returns! (4/5/19)

We would like to welcome back to the program, a true Jeffersonian hero, Dr. Mark Andrew Holowchak—philosopher, historian, and editor of The Journal of Thomas Jefferson’s Life and Times—is a professor of philosophy/history. He is author/editor of 11 books—with several more to come—and 90 published essays on Thomas Jefferson. He is also author of many other books and numerous essays on psychotherapy, Greek/Roman philosophy, ethics, philosophy of education, philosophy of sport, and critical thinking, among other things. He passes his time in the study of Jefferson’s mind and currently teaches history and philosophy at Virginia University of Lynchburg. 

The preeminent Jeffersonian scholar of our time returns to TRP to discuss his upcoming book, [God’s] justice can not sleep forever”: Rethinking Jefferson’s Views on Race and Slavery, and the censorship he's facing as he dares to apply reason and objective thinking to the historiography of Thomas Jefferson!

• Dealing with the "extreme Left" that controls the liberal academic university publishing orthodoxy in this country is almost like dealing with "the old Bolshevik regime" in that we may have to find Professor Holowchak's books on the samizdat black market! ...How dare he go against their orthodoxy! 
• We demand that Annette Gordon Reed, "High Priestess of the Hemings cult," debate Professor Holowchak in open forum! ...Her and her ilk have appropriated millions of dollars of grant money to push and propagandize a myth!
• We are supposed to have an open exchange of ideas based on fact! ...Bring back freedom of discussion and truth! ...The "extreme Left-wingers" that sadly now control Monticello will not allow any dissent to their narrative that the great founding father, Thomas Jefferson, was a "racist"... Professor Holowchak clearly and concisely crushes that sad and silly modern "politically correct" notion! 
• Jefferson was simply "not capable of hatred" and the Professor systematically explains why! ...He examines Jefferson's mind and does so in the context of his time...
• What would Jefferson say today and would he change his views?
• Professor Holowchak disseminates who the scientific and philosophical influences were behind Jefferson's morality...
• What exactly was Jefferson's "moral sense?"
• If the "extreme Left" can tear down Confederate historical statutes... the day may come when they demand that Jefferson be removed from Mount Rushmore! ...They know that if they can control the past they can then control the present and if they control the present they control the future!
• Modern Left-wing academia draws inspiration from the Frankfurt School!
• Was Alexander Hamilton an "American Lion" or an "American Jackal???" ...Our Resident Jeffersonian, John From Conn, calls in and discusses the original "First Party Struggle" between Thomas Jefferson, creator of the "Right-wing" Republican party, and Alexander Hamilton, creator of the "Left-wing" Federalist party.
• The cavernous divide between "Hamiltonian centralized Nationalism" and "Jeffersonian decentralized Federalism!"
• We just fought a Revolutionary War to escape tyranny yet Alexander Hamilton still engrafted a corrupt British mercantile type economic system on the healthy body of our burgeoning Republic! ...How he wanted a system where the elites & the Plutocrats controlled the country!
• How Jefferson believed in Free Enterprise & merit! ...He summed it up best when he said, "Agriculture, Manufacturers, Commerce & Navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise!" ..."Debt & Taxes are public evils of the first magnitude as they drain capital from the mass of the citizens, divert it from productive enterprise, and support a system of coercion, corruption, & privilege that was the bane of every government and is necessarily fatal to a free one!" ..."The dependent man of any kind cannot be trusted with the Liberty of others!"
• How Jefferson preferred "turbulent Liberty" to "quiet servitude!"
• Did Jefferson follow a "rigorous Stoic self-interest to the attainment of the Epicurean good life?"
• How much did Jefferson's stay in France as Minister (1784-89) effect his thinking? ...Are periodic rebellions good for a Republic??
• Did Jefferson believe that "what is practical must control pure theory?"
• How the modern day "Federal Government aggrandizers" are intentionally covering up our true Jeffersonian roots!
• The disgrace that was  "Assumption" and the Funding Act of 1790 and how Alexander Hamilton and his cronies used "insider information" to make 37 million dollars while robbing Revolutionary War veterans out of their scrip and war bonds for pennies on the dollar!
• Hamilton unconstitutionally pushed through the First National Bank in opposition to Jefferson & Madison! ...All to benefit the high finance stock jobbers and market manipulators of his day!
• How Hamilton "the Founding Father of Big Government" a "political opportunist" invented today's left-wing "Living Breathing document" and how it differed from what today's right-wing would call Jefferson's "originalist strict construction" ...Hamilton gave the blueprint to every Left-wing devil that was to come... He was the original pervertor of the Constitution of 1787 as he "read between the lines" and invented "implied powers!" ...He was also the original abuser of the "commerce," "general welfare," & the "necessary & proper" clauses! 
• How the hard Right of Jefferson's day thought he became too "moderate" as President...
• Jefferson's often forgotten "Draft Declaration & Protest of Virginia" (1825) beautifully summed up how the government was supposed to be!
• Historian Douglass Adair properly believed Jefferson was in fact hiding something at Monticello... Not his... but his "father-in-law's progeny!"
• Disgruntled Federalist propagandist James Callender invented the "Hemings myth" in the early 1800's... It was a scandal as huge then as today's Monica Lewinsky scandal... To think after being "found out" nationally that he would continue going back to that well for over a decade is laughable... 
• The Jeffersonian "Principles of 1798" & the 10th Amendment may be our last best hope!
• How the recent and Federally defiant "State marijuana laws" appear to be one example where the sovereign power of the individual States is fostering Liberty for it's citizens!
• The Declaration of Independence was a document of secession!
• To understand that our "2nd Constitution," the Constitution of 1787, may not have been necessary, read Merrill Jensen's, A New Nation: A History of the United States during the Confederation (1781-1789)!

PLEASE Contact President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation:
(Leslie Bowman) lbowman@monticello.org

***Ask why there is not open discussion and debate on the issues at Monticello when the facts are not settled based on the evidence!

***Also please demand that Professor Holowchak's books be made available at Monticello!

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TRP! (4/8/16)

• John of SI points out, in another one of his outstanding openings, how Garry Kasparov put a recent beat down on socialism and all of Bernie Sanders' proposed polices!
• Michael "Weiner" (Savage) mentions TRP on his program, proving he listens!
• Ted Cruz knocks "NY values".... or does he??
• Frank is steadfast in his support of "DJT" Donald J. Trump... John remains firmly behind traditional conservative Ted Cruz. Although, he will vote for Trump if he wins the nomination.
• "Fat filthy bull dyke"....Rosie...exposed as a liar and an idiot... again!
• Hitlery, the left wing ideal of a genius, can't figure out how to swipe a simple metro card...Oh yeah...she's a real New Yor"k"er...Bernie still thinks the NY subway uses tokens...
• Frank separates himself from "upper west side" NY Values!
• John declares that the Republicans have to stop the attacks on each other and finally start attacking the "ole bitch!"
• It finally occurs to Frank that the people who are supporting the "Foreign Occupier" are nothing more than historically typical "collaborators"...
• Black Lives Matter goes after "the first black president".... B.J. Clinton! They shout him down at an event while he actually makes a sober point....
• The F.O. attacks white Christians again instead of Muhammadans after the attacks in Belgium...
• Frank discusses the plots of the movies Goldfinger (1964), On the Beach (1959), and The Handmaid's Tale (1990). He points out once again how the Leftwing scum in Hollywood & London just could not properly predict today's Radical Islamic terrorist threat...
• John boldly predicts Trump will get massacred by Hitlery...Frank ardently disagrees!
• Frank defends Free Enterprise!! Not corporations!!
• The Left hates Trump because he's a rich successful white man!
• Andrew Cuomo would be eating out of garbage cans if his father wasn't governor!
• For his great work on Vero Beach Man, Uncle Warren is given his Solutrean name, "He who guards the bones of the ancestors!"
• John From Conn calls in and dissects the corruption that is the modern banking system. He also discusses how tariffs are not consistent with "the spirit of 1776" and have never proven to be of long term benefit to an economy! He rails against Keynesianism and goes on to dismantle Bitcoin as a viable currency alternative, showing how and why the founding fathers chose gold and silver to back our currency! Stand behind the great Jeffersonian slogan..."LIBERTY for ALL! FAVORS to NONE!"

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TRP! (11/30/12)

The Time Machine (1960 film)

Frank explains how the great societal fracture is upon us. The 2-party national political system is incapable of protecting liberty, retaining the Republic, or of stopping the tyranny of the new majority. The government continues to "centralize" and only through this centralization are the devastating effects of socialism and crony capitalism possible. Our only hope is to return to the decentralized Republic of the Founders or to allow for peaceful secession. Frank stands firmly behind the 18 heroic governors that have vowed not to implement "Obama-scam." He reminds us that if a law is unjust, it is the right of the citizenry to civil disobedience and to speak out against the unjust law. Frank also notes that the Left is all for civil disobedience, but, only if it's a law they don't like! He will move to the Great Republic of Texas if they do the right thing and break away while they still can!

The battle comes down to a fight for survival between the ever shrinking "Productive Class" (which consists of those that believe in earning what's theirs through Free Enterprise, hard work, hard money, production, merit, equal rights, and equal liberty for all) and the "Eloi Class" (the takers, whether rich or poor, that want something for nothing from the Productive Class or to use the political system for their own selfish benefit: whether through welfare, hand outs, subsides, monopolies, patronage, monetary inflation, fractional reserve banking, political favors, government usury, or bail outs. They either benefit from the power or are subjugated by the powerful because of their own ignorance, indolence, and stupidity.)

Frank draws multiple thought-provoking historical parallels from many eras of history including a detailed comparison between the fall of the Roman Republic and the fall of our Republic. He uses quotes from his favorite TV Series of all time, the incredible dialogue from I, Claudius, to point out how the Eloi have foolishly neglected the intellectual lessons to be learned from history. He shows clearly how we're being forced down the path of destruction and tyranny.

PLUS:

John reels off plenty of data from his massive file archive to prove the dominance of the "Reagan Boom," including an article from Dinesh D'Souza.

The movies Bataan, Back to Bataan, and We've Never Been Licked are recommended to honor Pearl Harbor Day next week.

Frank also talks about one of his and John From Conn's favorite books, The Forsaken, and how gullible the "Eloi Class" were in the 1930's when hundreds of them believed the utopian B.S. propaganda of the communists and their lackeys here in the Ministry of Lies and happily moved to the U.S.S.R. only for everyone of them to be murdered or sent to the gulags. Frank predicts the same fate for today's Eloi because they're caught in the same trance-like state. He trepidatiously foresees a final death toll in the 10's of millions when the "Obama-scam" "medical"-care fraud is all said and done.

Republicans use the name, but they don't emphasize why a "Republic" is so important to sustaining Liberty...90% of the Orthodox Jews voted for Romney...The Japanese are actually the Nipponese race and will heavily rearm to meet the coming Chinese threat...No government agency has ever met its goal, closed up shop, and went away...The TRP Song Contest between John and Bobby of PA continues, George the Atheist enters the fray with a choice of his own...Your phone calls and much much more at 718.761.9996! 

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