With Independence day lurking around the corner, Movie Moles Jan Haaken and
Denise Morris look back at the 1976 film Rocky. The first in a long line of
films, Rocky was decorated with praise and awards and continues to inspire
audiences as it taps into "our wish to have the...
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Denise Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole
Bill Resnick talks with teacher Rachel Hanes about pedagogy. Part One of of
their discussion of public education is here.
Denise Morris talks with Mark Brenner about the recent vote to cut PERS
benefits. Mark's earlie...
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Freeing Up the Time of Our Lives
A commentary based on Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Life and
Spiritual Freedom. Life is short and fragile, which makes it precious.
Capitalism wastes and abuses our time, while socialism can make our time our
own.
You can read t...
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Densie Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes
Fake News: the PERS Crisis: Bill Resnick interviews Mark Brenner on the
manufactured PERS crisis and the larger real crisis of pensions, with most
Americans having little more than Social Security when the...
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Bill Resnick interviews Mark Brenner on the manufactured PERS crisis and the
larger real crisis of pensions, with most Americans having little more than
Social Security when they retire. Mark Brenner, PhD, is an economist,
journalist, labor activist and career instructor at...
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Book Mole Larry Bowldon reviews Pulitzer Prize-winner author Jhumpa
Lahiri’s novel The Lowland, which explores the immigrant experience in the
U.S.
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Desiree Hellegers interviews Ophelia Noble, founder and Executive Director of
the Vancouver-based Noble Foundation, and an organizer with Southwest
Washington Communities United for Change, about the Vancouver Police
Department’s escalating use of lethal force against peopl...
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Denise Morris reads Howard Zinn’s reflection on Memorial Day during the
Bush/Cheney era.
Photo credit: Abid Katib / Getty Images News / Getty Images / Universal
Images Group
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Denise Morris hosts.
Bill Resnick interviews Joanna Misnik about Chicago and the DSA's success in
their recent election winning six seats in the 50 person city council.
Clayton Morgareidge discusses Music, Language, and Capitalism.
Jan Haaken talks with Anais Tuepker...
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Music, Language, and Capitalism[*]
I was thinking about how music and language are alike and yet different,
and this is the train of thought that came to me.
We might think of music as structuring time. Music exists in time, and moves
through time by changing pitch, volum...
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