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While we are hard at work on starting the new video podcast, here is a recording listeners might enjoy of a public lecture on the relationship between "cancel culture" and Marxist theories of labour and politics.

Don talks about his trips to Europe following retirement. 

This interview covers the period from 1963 to the 1990s when he worked as a professor of philosophy first at UBC then at SFU. Here we get Don's take on the hippie movement, the discipline of philosophy and anti-intellectual fads, past and present.

Part two of our program finale wherein Don recounts his encounter with the Beat movement.

This is the first part of Cocktail Hour's five-episode finale featuring the philosopher Don Todd

Los Altos Institute hosted Ira Zbarsky, a lifelong supporter of communities seeking autonomy through bioregional self-reliance and fair trade on November 28th in Vancouver.

While you wait for me to finish the Don Todd interviews, here is the radio equivalent of my baby pictures, featuring four interviews I did when I was 17, back in 1989. I talk about what animated me at the time: youth suffrage, McDonald's ozone-damaging packaging and the proposed Stanley Park zoo expansion.

Jon and I meant to discuss three issues on the show but discovered that an hour had passed talking about the first one, the state of the modern university.

Sam wanted to talk about men's experience of miscarriages, which, other than wine, is mostly what we talked about.

In the show, we drink passionfruit mezcal cocktails discuss Tabasco sauce, Oaxaca cheese, the background and mixed record of Pope Francis, the rise of Latin American Pentecostalism and the relationship between neoliberal healthcare austerity and rising magical belief.

Cherry Smiley is a dark horse candidate for leader of the BC New Democratic Party running on a feminist platform. We spend seventy minutes talking provincial issues and about the challenges of participating in the NDP.

Nathan Giede, Prince George-based Assiniboine columnist, podcaster, Catholic traditionalist, former Tory candidate joins us to talk about all and sundry as we relaunch the show.

In this episode I interview my longtime friend John Thompson, military man, defense policy analyst and now author of a new book on the Second World War. We drink rum; Thompson's bum leg went out so he couldn't make it to the shops and had to subsist on his emergency navy rum supply.

After a two month hiatus, the Cocktail Hour is back on the air with the amazing Edward Kopp, navy man, chef, public intellectual and candidate in the Democratic Party 2024 Brooklyn congressional primary.

This is a show produced for Los Altos Institute's podcast channel being reposted here. It's a panel discussion on the Ukraine conflict with Jonathan Sheps, Stuart Parker, Tom Ewasiuk and RT Hatfield.

We interview Bill Tieleman, long-time political operator in British Columbia on the left and law enforcement, as well as the state of the New Democratic Party. 

This week, the conversation was over tea with Lierre Keith, co-founder of Deep Green Resistance, founder of Women's Liberation Front (WOLF) and author of several books on feminism and the ecological crisis. 

This episode of Cocktail Hour, I interview my friend and comrade, geneticist Jonathan Sheps. We talk politics, diaspora and Zionism but we also get to hear his potentially world-changing synthesis of DNA research into bedbugs, lice, syphilis and early hominids. There is even something for sasquatch and yeti enthusiasts.

We enjoy a beer with Hants County Nova Scotia journalist and opinion leader Scott Costen, host of the Sidebar on the prospects for socialist politics in Atlantic Canada and more broadly in the English speaking world. You can find the Sidebar at @thesidebar1 on Twitter and https://thesidebar.ca/.

Heather Mason, prisoner rights campaigner talks about the devastating impact of the Gender Orthodoxy on incarcerated women in Canada. If you care about the physical safety of Indigenous women and girls, this show is a must-listen.

Historian, chef and photographer Rick Halpern catches up with Stuart with a negroni in hand. Subjects range from Szechuan cuisine to the rise of the authoritarians to the colour line's upsetting persistence.

The last NDP MP Saskatchewan sent to Ottawa was in Hawaii. We caught up over rum and cokes, talking about the prospects of the Canadian left.

Amy Hamm is a nurse in Vancouver who is currently fighting the loss of her accreditation to practice on the grounds not of her nursing practice but of the political opinions she expresses when not at work. We talk about the social movement that launched the complaint to have her removed from the nursing profession, its demands and the other intimidation and speech-chilling tactics it uses.

Another cocktail-free cocktail hour due to the exigencies of this new journalistic project. Still, the intro contains a cocktail recipe and recommendation, the Mighty Chewbacca. Start at minute four if you want to dive directly into Chris Elston's campaign against the widespread use of puberty blockers on our children.

In this episode, I make some additional announcements about the show's current status and then we take a break from cocktails to discuss the Identitarian turn in modern identity politics with Daniel Kaufman, a professor of philosophy at Missouri State University. Dr. Kaufman focuses much of his critique on the idea of compelled speech and its incompatibility with a liberal society. It is the first...