Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Jill Gentile about the dynamics behind Trump's sexist and racist propoganda. Gentile is a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voi... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson, a founder of Rethinking Schools magazine and former president of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association, who blogs at Educate for Democracy. They discuss attacks on public education, the history of vouchers and charter scho... Read more

    Frann Michel finds the news demoralizing, and offers a clip of Fred Hampton, Sr., speaking at a mock people's trial.   Image of Fred Hampton By Fair use, via Wikimedia Commons. 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, De... Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker discuss the moral necessity defense and how it has been used in civil disobedience cases, including the recent prosecution of climate activists known as the "valve-turners" who shut down five pipelines carrying tar sands crude oil. Photo co... Read more

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 ... Read more

  Legendary Northwest singer-songwriter Jim Page was in Portland for Winterfolk (the annual fundraiser for Sisters of the Road Cafe), and he took time out to do an interview for KBOO's Old Mole Variety Hour with Desiree Hellegers. In the course of their conversation, he... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Dave Finkel, editor of Against the Current, and author of the recent essay "Open and Hidden Horrors." They discuss climate catastrophe; the wars that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are conducting in the Middle East; the suffering in Yemen, Sy... Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with Jane Hassinger, psychoanalyst and University of Michigan Ann Arbor researcher, about her work globally with abortion providers. They take up the Trump administration's revival of the "gag rule" against U.S. aid for family planning services and ho... Read more