Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick interviews Dena Floberg on how to regain rules that require openness to all who wish to offer their ideas, to maintain free speech protections for what now has become our most important public space, the Worldwide Web, AKA the Internet. Dena Floberg is an an... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to Hunter Blair of the Economic Policy Institute about the potential impact of the Republican Tax plan. Blair joined EPI in 2016 as a budget analyst for tax, budget, and infrastructure policy. Read more

Clayton Morgareidge recommends that leftists try to rein in their moral outrage at Trump supporters and attempt to understand what there is in many people's lives that leads to Trumpism. Clayton Morgareidge is the author of Demystifying Demons: Rethinking Who and What We... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews the new novel by Alice McDermott “The Ninth Hour.” Spanning the twentieth century, The Ninth Hour is the story of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. Photo by Julius Wilcox - Brooklyn Museum Read more

Mike Snedeker discusses Debbie Nathan's work as an investigative reporter for The ACLU of Texas. Nathan just published an article on December 9th for the Intercept titled “They’re taking everybody.” Videos show Texas troopers ripping apart immigrant families during traff... Read more

The Republican Tax Plan: Bill Resnick talks to Hunter Blair of The Economic Policy Institute about the potential impacts of the Republican tax plan. Understanding Trump Supporters: Clayton Morgareidge recommends that leftists try to rein in their moral outrage at Trump su... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge shares a shortened version of an essay by Miya Tokumitsu in Jacobin: "The Fight for Free Time."    Image by William Merritt Chase, Public Domain   Read more

  Bill Resnick continues his conversation with Eric Holt Giménez about how agroecology works and why it's important for combatting climate change. Part one is here.  During this Membership drive episode, a new KBOO member received a copy of the Food First book, Fertile... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole and we hear these segments: Clayton shares selections from "The Fight for Free Time" Bill Resnick continues his conversation with Eric Holt Giménez about agroecology and why it's important for combatting climate... Read more