Matthew Raphael Johnson was a university professor until the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Several sources describe Matthew Raphael Johnson as a former professor (Mount St. Mary's, Penn State, and Nebraska as a graduate student), so his professorship is supported. No source says when that professorship ended, so the claim that it lasted 'until the COVID-19 pandemic' is not confirmed or contradicted; the Johns Hopkins and Penn State CV hits refer to different people.
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… Yeah, um, I think the only place I could be comfortable would be, uh, in parts of Russia itself, Belarus especially, uh, who knows, maybe even Iran. Um These are highly literate places, but yeah, um, you know, the university was my life for a long time. I was a professor for years, really, until until COVID. I didn't want to do online. Uh, I need an audience. I need to, I need to scare freshman. I, I, you know, I can't do it, can't do that online. Um, although I do want to note that my P.O. Box, the one entire hill, no longer functions. …
The Pete Quiñones Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Multiple bios describe Johnson as a former professor of history and political science at Penn State University and Mount St. Mary's University.[3][4][5][6]
Context. A 2020 Barnes Review notice says he left The Barnes Review in 2005 to become a professor of history at Mount Saint Mary's University, but it gives no end date for that professorship.[7]
Context. The Johns Hopkins 'Matthew Johnson' quoted in a 2014 PolitiFact piece and the Penn State 'Matthew M. Johnson' CV refer to different people, so they neither confirm nor refute this claim.[1][2]
Context. No source gives the date or reason his academic appointment ended, so the 'until COVID' timing is not addressed by the sources.[3][4][5][6]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 5 not rated
- 1Nancy Grace says pot users 'shoot each other' and 'kill families'politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2CURRICULUM VITAE Matthew M. Johnson Associate ...ed.psu.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Matthew Raphael Johnson | LinkedInlinkedin.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 4The Metaphysics of St. John Scotus Eriugena- Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnsonyoutube.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Matthew Raphael Johnsonsourcewatch.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 6Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew ...podscripts.co · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 7Matthew Raphael Johnson Back with TBRbarnesreview.org · not rated · cited for: context
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