Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Book Mole Larry Bowlden discusses White Fur, a new novel by Jardine Lebaire. It is a tale of love and class and money and death and New York City in the 1980’s.    Read more

  Jan Haaken talks with No More Deaths volunteer Sophie Smith about the recent wave of repression faced by humanitarian aid workers on the US-Mexico border under the Trump Administration. Sophie reports on the new challenges that face the decades-long effort to stop dea... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick and Nico Larco discuss the major social impacts of coming technologies; 2 Desiree Hellegers and Naomi Little Bear Morena about Morena's movement anthem, "You Can't Kill the Spirit" 3. Larry Bow... Read more

The ability of our atmosphere to maintain a livable climate depends on the soil and the plants that grow in it. Diana Donlon talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the damage we are doing to both climate and soil and how better management of the soil could help gre... Read more

Old Mole Tom Becker reviews our evolving understanding of eclipses and the limits of our understanding of the universe. Photo: By I, Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0 Read more

What can we learn from the eclipse taking place as this piece was being aired (8/21/17), and from Stanley Kubrik's 1984 film "2001" about our place in the universe and humanity's technological overreach. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss.  Read more

Hosted by Tom Becker, this episode of the Old Mole aired as a solar eclipse, almost but not quite total in Portland, was occurring. The eclipse leads the Moles to reflect in various ways on how dependent humanity is on natural and cosmic forces. What we have done to our ... Read more

Bill Resnick and KBOO engineer and programmer, John Shuck, discuss the progressive aspects of (Christian) religion. They consider religious critiques of traditional theism and traditional morality, the communal ritual aspect of religion as a lesson for political organizi... Read more

Frann Michel reviews Jack London's 1908 novel, The Iron Heel (available online for download and through the Multnomah County Library). One of London's most socialist novels, it tells the story of how a failed revolution in the US leads to the centuries long reign of a fa... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge reflects on epidemics of despair, from suicide to mass shootings, and attending to the social and economic roots. Read more