Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. (Ph.D. UCLA, Economics), Author of "More Guns, Less Crime" (Univ. Chicago Press), President of Crime Prevention Research Center, on Shoring up Election Integrity

Hey TRPers,

Here’s a conversation on The Republican Professor Podcast with our esteemed guest, Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. (Ph.D. UCLA, Economics). Dr. Lott is best known to us as a researcher on the harms and myths of the effectiveness of gun control, but Dr. Lott joins The Republican Professor podcast this episode to discuss his recent Hillsdale College Imprimis piece called “Is Ensuring Election Integrity Anti-Democratic?” (October 2021, to 6.1 million readers). Dr. Lott provides a comparison of the US with the rest of the World on efforts to shore up election integrity.

What he writes is shocking.

We talk about Election Integrity. The key to moving forward with shoring up Election Integrity is transparency.

I normally publish the episode to my YouTube channel, The Republican Professor, before it goes out to the rest of the world on Apple podcasts through TRP’s website. But I hesitate to do that for this episode and the one which came before with Dr. John Lott.

YouTube censors discussion about Election Integrity.

They took down one of TRP’s videos early on when my co-host and I, Kurtis Olson, interviewed the film producer and book publisher Brad Cummings (The Shack, book and film). In three hours, Brad said his opinion that there a lack of integrity and transparency in our election system twice. That’s right, in 3 hours of conversation about everything else, he briefly mentioned just twice, very quickly, his personal opinion about how much work we have to do to shore up Election Integrity in the United States, and YouTube took it down for “spreading misinformation” about a very specific election for a specific office during a specific year, details Brad hadn’t even bothered to mention, his comments were so brief.

Democrats run YouTube, and we had a strike, or warning of a strike against my YouTube channel (you get 3 before your channel is gone).

I did appeal and they did republish the video, so verify yourself — go watch Brad Cummings’ episode and see for yourself whether that video is “harmful” to the community.

The bottom line for me is that although YouTube reinstated the video , they did so at their sole discretion without any explanation (or expectation that they owed us or anyone any explanation) as to why they changed their minds, or how specifically they make their decisions, nor did they offer an apology for their admitted mistake. And so I’m left with a chilling effect on frank discussion about that topic on YouTube. By the way, YouTube sure seems to be run by Democrats, certainly not by Republicans.

Enjoy this episode with our guest Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. Ph.D., and look for the video on Rumble if you want to see us.

The Republican Professor is a pro-secure-elections, pro-shoring-up-election-integrity, pro-Free-Speech-about-election-integrity-on-any-platform, pro-producing-people-who-can-think-for-themselves-instead-of-having-Youtube-run-by-Democrats-censor-the-information-they-may-need-to-make-up-their-own-minds-intelligently, pro-transparency-in-elections podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D., President of the Crime Prevention Research Institute and author of, among others, “More Guns, Less Crime” (University of Chicago Press).

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