I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Cignonos show.

I am pleased to have Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson with me today.

How are you doing, Dr. Johnson?

Yeah, I think it's about time.

We got together.

I know we have some mutual friends.

I'm doing okay.

So I'm really happy to be here.

I'm really happy to be helping you out this way.

I appreciate you doing this because this is one of those topics that once you start to understand it, it starts leading you in other places and even up to the modern day.

But before we get into the meat of the discussion,

I want you to tell everybody a little bit about yourself.

Well, for those who don't know,

I've been doing this sort of thing professionally for 32 years now.

I got my PhD in the history of political philosophy from University of Nebraska.

And then I went straight to Willis Cardo's Liberty Lobby, the Barnes Review.

And I worked under him for many years.

And then I was a professor of many universities until COVID hit, really.

And then, yeah, it just, I assume at that point, just like many other people, you just had to adopt a new paradigm.

Well, it wasn't that difficult.

Academia has reached a point where I can't function in it anymore.

But my name, I'm known enough where through things like, you know, website and Patreon and everything else, I can make some sort of a decent living.

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