Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

Kerry Taylor talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how low wage workers in South Carolina are fighting for the $15 minimum wage and for justice and dignity. Kerry Taylor is an associate professor of history at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He speciali... Read more

In their series The Left and the Law, attorney Mike Snedeker and the Old Mole's Jan Haaken discuss the attempt in congress to  outlaw support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against goods made in the occupied West Bank, and how the attempt is backfirin... Read more

Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review the 2016 Disney film, "Moana." The film tells the story of its tituluar character, a Polynesian teenage princess who reclaims her people's long-repressed identity as deep-sea voyagers. Against her father's protests, she leaves the island... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this edition of the Mole and we hear these segments: 1. Professor and activist Kerry Taylor talks with Bill Resnick about the fight for dignity and a $15 minimum wage in the South 2. The Left and the Law takes on the Senate bill that would outlaw support... Read more

  This week on the Old Mole Variety Hour, Thom Becker hosts and we hear these segments: Arthur Stamoulis, director of the national Citizens Trade Campaign, discusses trade policy. Frann Michel on Trump's tweets on Trans people & the military.    Thom reads about "A Fut... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Arthur Stamoulis, director of the national Citizens Trade Campaign, about trade policy. The Oregon Chapter will be holding a Town Hall on NAFTA on Thursday August 10  at 7:30pm at AFSCME Council 75 (6025 E Burnside St.).   Read more

  Frann Michel discusses Trump's Trans Tweets, the role of gender in the right-wing imaginary, and the divided responses from left and liberal commenters.   Information also drawn from Political Research, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and Dean Spade. See also Katherine... Read more

  Thom Becker reads from an article entitled "A Future Beyond Capitalism or No Future At All" by Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk.  Image via wikimedia.   Read more