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What Is Stoicism?

Airs at: Sun, 02/02/2025 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Tanner is the co-author, along with Kai Whiting, of the new book, What Is Stoicism?: A Brief and Accessible Overview. Tanner is an American philosopher of Stoicism living in the United Kingdom. He is the producer and host of the Practical Stoicism podcast, which was name... Read more

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Frann Michel recommends the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, directed by Belgian media artist Johan Grimonprez, and available streaming through kanopy via the Multnomah County Library. The film opens with, and returns to, the moment in February 1961 when singer... Read more

Fern Capella Allen of the New Earth School PDX

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest is Fern Capella Allen of the New Earth School PDX in Southeast Portland. She’s crowdsourcing knowledge as a mutual aid project. You can engage with them online, @newearthschoolpdx on Instagram and FB. Read more

Ryan Alexander-Tanner on Muhammad Ali

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ryan Alexander-Tanner is a comics artist and illustrator who’s led comics workshops for kids and adults, and worked with writers and non-profit organizations for projects that he calls “illustrated narratives.”  He's collaborated with professor and activist Bill Ayers... Read more

Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods with author Sarah Neidhardt and her mom Wendy McPhee

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Sarah Neidhardt, author of the memoir Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods, from The University of Arkansas Press. The book recounts Sarah’s experience growing up as part of a back-to-the land family in a small, isolated town in... Read more

The Palestine Exception

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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

Former Albina Residents Sue for Compensation

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In December 2023, a team of civil rights lawyers, including Albies, Stark & Guerriero, LLC, Oregon Law Center and Legal Aid Services of Oregon brought a suit against the City of Portland, Emanuel Hospital, and Prosper Portland on behalf of Emanuel Displaced Persons Assoc... Read more

The End Of An Error (The W Years - Redux)

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
  This Show was first broadcast January 20, 2009. We felt that on this day, January, 21st,  2025,  the day after this "Inauguration" it might be fun, and maybe a  little helpful, to recall a "simpler" time. Stay strong - and keep vigilant, this too will pass.  Meanwhil... Read more

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Eco-Disasters in Japanese Film. Japan has rich traditions of filmmaking and of approaching films as commentary on daily life. But Japanese cinema also offers rich commentary on ecological crises. Jan Haaken talks with University of Oregon professor Rachel DiNitto about h... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 20, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Public domain image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King,_Jr_.svg Patricia Kullberg hosts this Martin Luther King Day episode of the Old Mole, featuring the following segments: Whites Would Not Like the Real MLK: Our Well-Read Red, Patricia Kull... Read more