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The Liberal Soul

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...


Oct 27, 2021

This is part two of a three part series on the book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. If you have not yet listened to part one I would recommend you do as it sets the context for the book and the episodes I am doing on it. In this episode I discuss the parts of the book that have to do with:

- The over...


Oct 20, 2021

In this episode of The Liberal Soul I begin the book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, essayist, dissident and one of the great moral titans of the twentieth century. Largely thanks to his courage the rest of the world learned in depth what was going on behind the...


Oct 13, 2021

For this episode I (only begin) tackling the concept of Free Will and it's relationship to our liberal lives. I use the short book Free Will by Sam Harris as a springboard to discuss to my thoughts on this concept; and why I think it's been a little misunderstood in the culture since his book was published in 2012. (At...


Oct 3, 2021

What are we talking about when we are talking about doing science? How is doing science different from the other forms that we call knowledge or discovery? This is the philosophical task at hand covered by Karl Popper in his work Conjectures and Refutations. I have already done several episodes on Popper's book The Open...