Patricia Kullberg

The Palestine Exception, a Portland-based documentary film directed by PSU faculty Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth, will screen at Cinema 21 on Jan. 26. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around cri... Read more

Laurie Mercier  speaks with Dr. Zeinab Shuker, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University and a fellow at the Century Foundation. Her research focuses on comparative global political economy and climate change, with special emphasis on the... Read more

In his 2016 collection of three essays, novelist Amitav Ghosh takes up a question of immense importance: what explains humanity’s collective failure to avert the existential threat posed by climate change? Capitalism and colonialism are the great structural forces that k... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts the final Old Mole broadcast of 2024, which includes the following segments: War and Climate Crisis in the Middle East: Laurie Mercier  speaks with Dr. Zeinab Shuker, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University a... Read more

On December 18th, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark ruling from a lower court last year. In the Held v Montana case, the Montana justices agreed that the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal pr... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Climate and Justice: Just three weeks after the disappointing outcome at the United Nations COP 29 (Conference of Parties) meetings in Azerbaijan, the largest case in the his... Read more

With the looming prospect of a new Trump administration, left activists face a perilous political moment. Today we look back at the Central America solidarity movement of the 1980’s to discover what lessons can be learned from a movement that succeeded in blunting US mil... Read more

Just three weeks after the disappointing outcome at the United Nations COP 29 (Conference of Parties) meetings in Azerbaijan, the largest case in the history of the International Court of Justice began this month with testimony from Pacific Islanders about the threats of... Read more

After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticis... Read more

What role might be played in political struggle by cultural creations? A new novel, Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, raises this question doubly: both as a novel set in current struggles and in the story it recounts about the contested effort to mount a theatre production... Read more