Michael Laxer
Mapping the Solidarity Economy
The worker-owned collective ChiCommons helps Chicago residents find local mutual aid-based organizations. The community owned Wild Onion...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 156 min
Recycling the Discarded
Greenfield, Massachusetts’s Compost Co-op gives ex-inmates a living wage through meaningful work. Image via video screenshot By Damon...
Michael Laxer
Aug 62 min
Fish Cutlets at the Soviet Moskva Restaurant
From the Soviet Magazine Sputnik in 1982, a brief look at the Moskva Restaurant with a recipe for a house specialty: Fish Cutlets. From...
Michael Laxer
Aug 36 min
Community in Motion
Bike co-ops uphold a tradition of self-empowerment through cycling. Vegasjon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4....
Michael Laxer
Jul 57 min
How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
Harnessing the power of story may help us survive and thrive on a climate-altered planet. By Katherine Dolan Climate change is, by far,...
Michael Laxer
Jun 92 min
Loss, Sacrifice and Victory -- Second World War Art of the Soviet Ukraine
Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...
Michael Laxer
May 292 min
The Children of Rafah
Passages from The Children of Rafah I The sun on a conqueror's bayonet was A naked corpse despised: Bleeding silence Over rancorous...
Michael Laxer
May 181 min
Viktor Koretskii, Soviet poster artist b. May 18, 1909
Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), was an astonishingly prolific Soviet artist created some of the USSR's most iconic...
Michael Laxer
May 52 min
Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean
Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean, Vladimir Mayakovsky Sketch, 1919 Famed Soviet poet, writer and artist Mayakovsky...
Michael Laxer
Apr 265 min
What Does Play Tell Us About Human Evolution?
By Brenna R. Hassett Our species devotes a singular amount of time to an utterly unserious aspect of life: play. This begs the question:...
Michael Laxer
Apr 234 min
Raising Hairless Primates
By Amy Pollick I remember the first time I observed my daughter pointing. We were at a neighborhood playgroup, a daily gathering of...
Michael Laxer
Apr 151 min
Ban the Atomic Bomb!
Ban the Atomic Bomb, Painting, Hans Grundig GDR, 1954 Grundig (1901 - 1958) was a German artist who joined the Communist Party in 1926....
Michael Laxer
Apr 142 min
Radish and Egg Salad, Borsh a la Poltava and Yabchanka
Recipes of Soviet Ukraine #3 In 1980 a terrific little cookbook was published in the USSR looking at Soviet Ukrainian cookery and...
Michael Laxer
Apr 127 min
Why Culture Is Not the Only Tool for Defining Homo sapiens in Relation to Other Hominins
We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time. An ancient skull excavated...
Michael Laxer
Apr 102 min
David Bowie in the USSR
While the photos of singer David Bowie in the capital of the Soviet Union are cool enough, the story of how Bowie got to Moscow is really...
Michael Laxer
Apr 42 min
In Memoriam of SCTV Satire Icon, Joe Flaherty
Flaherty parodying William F Buckley -- image via screenshot By Gabriel Haythornthwaite Joe Flaherty died appropriately enough this past...
Michael Laxer
Mar 201 min
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Say of them They knew no Spanish At first, and nothing of the arts of war At first: how to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 146 min
Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
We all have a moral obligation to do the least possible harm to our planet, and that ethos has a name: veganics. Rene Cortin, CC BY-SA...
Michael Laxer
Mar 118 min
Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being...
Michael Laxer
Mar 97 min
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to...
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