Denise Morris

In the second of a two-part interview, Desiree Hellegers interviews legendary Seattle folk singer, song-writer and activist Jim Page about justice, gentrification, songwriting and music as a tool of resistance. Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Tom Pepinski on the global rise of authoritarianism. Tom Pepinski is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at Cornell University. He is a co-author of the recent article: Trumpism and American Democracy: History, Comparison, and the Pre... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Bill Resnick talks with Tom Pepinski on the rise of authoritarianism. Tom Pepinski is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at Cornell University. In the second of a two-part interview, Desi... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole  Greenwashing and Global Climate Justice: Bill Resnick talks to John Foran about corporate greenwashing and what must and can be done to save the planet.  John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of Califo... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with John Foran about corporate greenwashing and what must and can be done to save the planet.  John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Foran is currently working on a book, Taking Power or (Re)Making Power:  M... Read more

Frann Michel discusses the history of women cinematographers and the first-ever nomination of a woman for a best cinematography Oscar: Rachel Morrison, director of photography for Mudbound.  Frann draws on Pamela Hutchinson's recent essay in The Guardian, as well as the Wom... Read more

  Denise Morris and Laurie Mercier review two Academy Award nominated films, the feature film Mudbound and the documentary Strong Island. Both films take up issues of race in the US and particularly violence against Black men.     Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews Bryce Courteny’s novel The Power of One, a coming-of-age story about a young English boy in South Africa. Read more

Clayton Morgareidge recommends that leftists try to rein in their moral outrage at Trump supporters and attempt to understand what there is in many people's lives that leads to Trumpism. Clayton Morgareidge is the author of Demystifying Demons: Rethinking Who and What We Ar... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews the new novel by Alice McDermott “The Ninth Hour.” Spanning the twentieth century, The Ninth Hour is the story of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. Photo by Julius Wilcox - Brooklyn Museum Read more