Dec 25, 2021
In this short bonus episode I meditate on why Christmas is such a wonderful holiday beyond its religious affiliations.
Dec 15, 2021
This episode is a celebration of the life and impact of Christopher Hitchens. December 15th, 2021 is the ten year anniversary of his death, so Cole and I discuss all things Hitchens in memorial. Both Cole and I were introduced to Hitchens through the religion angle, but there was so much more to his life and career. We...
Nov 24, 2021
For this episode of The Liberal Soul I have borrowed a bonus episode from my other podcast Really True Fiction. For that episode, I recorded a chat with my RTF cohost (David Parker) and guest (Josiah Martinoski) on the 2021 film Dune; directed by Denis Villeneuve. This was a follow up to a recording about a year earlier...
Nov 10, 2021
Welcome back to another episode of The Liberal Soul. This episode is a hashing out of something I have been thinking about for a while, as well as a concept alluded to in episode 4 of this podcast with Cole Kander. It is that I have always considered Religion to be much too broad of a term; thus allowing for confusing...
Oct 31, 2021
Welcome to the last part of a three part series on the book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In this final episode I talk about:
- What it's like to live in fear with no peace of mind - which means no psychological freedom
- The betrayals in the Soviet Union - and how they are a little bit reminiscent of...