Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

In September, WSU Vancouver broke ground on two new campus gardens–one a student community garden, the other centering Indigenous Traditional Ecological Cultural Knowledge. Julian Ankney speaks with Lakota-Cheyenne activist Roben White about the role of the gardens in revit... Read more

  This episode about events in Palestine is hosted by Jon Nelson and includes segments from the Old Mole archive as well as news about an upcoming film screening.   Juan Cole on Gaza in 2014 During Israel's 2014 war on Gaza, Laurie Mercier talked with historian and Midd... Read more

  This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments:   How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as bastions of liberal democracy even as Israel continues to bomb schools in Gaza in its genocidal... Read more

Bill Resnick discusses the Supreme Court's horrendous atrocious recent decisions with Russell Feingold, former three-term Senator from Wisconsin and now President of the American Constitution Society, the liberals' answer to the Federalist Society. In particular, they discu... Read more

  Death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed on September 24th, despite admissions from a prosecutor’s office claiming his innocence. The attorneys for Williams filed two last-minute requests with the US Supreme Court on Monday. Both of them were denied before he was... Read more

  Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as bastions of liberal democracy even as Israel continues to bomb schools in Gaza in its genocidal war.  Jan Haaken talks with Maya Wind about her new book, "Towers of Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Fr... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. Health and Place: Every year, more than 80,000 African Americans die prematurely. The medical establishment relies on genetics or dietary patterns to explain such appal... Read more

The word “genocide” was coined by secular Jew and Polish attorney Raphael Lemkin in 1948. To him the term meant not only physical obliteration of a certain group of people, but their cultural annihilation as well. The legal concept that emerged from the 1948 UN Convention o... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews the 2024 novel titled Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, about Luz Lopez and five generations of a Chicano family. The story, set in Denver in the 1930’s, explores how the racism and colonialism of the past haunts the present and shapes ... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Libraries as Grammar Schools of the Commons: Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of libraries, examining the material context of social attacks ... Read more