Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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

Denise Morris and Jan Haaken review Kathryn Bigelow's "Detroit", which dramatizes events surrounding the 1967 12th Street Rebellion in Detroit. The consider what the film has to say about black life, black political movements, and the origins of social unrest. They also ... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear the following segments. Musical selection: The George Fox Song, The Red Flag, and What's Going On? Bill Resnick and KBOO engineer and programmer, John Shuck, discuss progressive religion and its critique of traditional theism a... 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

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