Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Every nation has founding myths that justify and glorify its beginnings and its history. Clayton Morgareidge comments on what happens when those myths lose their credibility.  You can read this commentary here. Image: British Library / Science Photo Library Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Phyllis Bennis about U.S. entanglements with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, and the proxy wars in the Middle East. Author of eleven books, including the recent Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror, Bennis directs the New Internationali... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews Rene Denfeld’s novel, The Child Finder. Denfold is famous for her nonfiction writing and her excellent debut novel, The Enchanted.  Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Tim Buckley, one of the authors of  The New Scarlet Letters: Sex Offenders, Their Treatment, and Our Challenge. They will discuss stereotypes and misconceptions of sex offenders, and how the punitive orientation of the criminal justice system affect... Read more

Laurie Mercier speaks with Conor Casey, labor archivist at the University of Washington. They discuss the April 7 Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference in Seattle, and how the Labor Archives attempts to preserve and share the region’s laboring and activi... Read more

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole and presents these pieces: Bill Resnick interviews Phyllis Bennis about U.S. entanglements with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, and the proxy wars in the Middle East. Larry Bowlden reviews Rene Denfeld’s novel, The Child Fi... Read more

Distributors like Amazon have a genre called women’s fiction (used to be called romance), and it is obvious they treat this as light reading.  According to our Book Mole, Larry Bowlden, so-called women’s fiction (including many romance novels) are often excellent at desc... Read more

 Bil Resnick talks with Jeff Hunt, a millennial generation radical who keeps up with grass roots music and its resistant qualities. We discuss how many inspirational songs are two-edged, sometimes backfiring:  They may promote ideas that America is the land of opportunit... Read more

Thom Becker hosts this show containing these segments: 1. Bill Resnick talks with Treyven Layshon about gun violence and how to respond to it, 2. Book Mole Larry Bowlden explains the underestimated value of "women's" literature. 3. Tom Becker reads Thor Benson's piece f... Read more