Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

  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

  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

Frann Michel talks with Desiree Hellegers about an organizing campaign to push back against planned budget cuts at Washington State University, including to the Vancouver, WA campus. The WSU President's proposal would eliminate theater entirely, cut graduate stipends and... Read more

Mike Snedeker of the Old Mole’s Left and the Law Series interviews Jim Smith, founder of the first immigration law clinic in the country at UC Davis. He now litigates on behalf of Central American refugees who will be killed if sent back to where they came from. They dis... Read more