Posts tagged with “Ed Brayton”
Ed Brayton's new podcast
I was delighted yesterday to discover that Ed Brayton, who used to host one of my all-time favourite political podcasts, Declaring Independence Radio, has recently started hosting a new show: Culture Wars Radio.
Reclaiming atheism
What with the way the world is at the moment, I’ve been thinking a lot about social justice. I find myself confronted with sexism, homophobia, and even racism, with increasing frequency both offline and online. Possibly it’s just because I’m becoming more conscious of these things as I become more educated about the world, myself and the power dynamics therein. But even empirically it seems like the dark forces are massing.
I'm mirroring old episodes of some podcasts
A commenter on an old post recently asked if I’d share my copies of Ed Brayton’s old podcasts. I’ve put them up here. I’ve mentioned before how much of a fan I am of these shows.
The list is an awful mess right now as I just copied the file names and regexp’d a page together, but it’s better than nothing.
Ed Brayton back on the air
A nice surprise to read yesterday that Ed Brayton is back on the air with a relaunch of his old radio show Culture Wars Radio.
[I am a long-time fan of Ed’s writing and particularly his radio shows. (So much so that I mirror episodes of his old shows to make sure they remain available.) Intelligent, informed, non-partisan discussion of American politics and law, particularly constitutional law. This time he has a co-host, former professor of constitutional law Dan Ray. The first episode is a discussion of the recent Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling, and a bit about Trump’s legal troubles.
I’m super pleased to hear Ed on the radio again.
Check out the podcast via iTunes, or subscribe to the feed directly. It looks like Ed is supporting production of the show through Patreon, so go take a look there too.
Ed Brayton
I was sad to hear of the death of Ed Brayton a few days ago. He was a humanist and secular community leader, blogger, journalist and board member for the Center for Inquiry, Michigan. Following a long battle with illness, he checked himself into hospice care, and died comfortably a few days later.