Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Today on the Old Mole: A show about love romantic love that teenagers think will last for all eternity. the deep feelings of love for humanity and human capacity that Che Guevara said characterizes all true revolutionaries.  the love shown by the people protecting undoc... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Amy Schalet, the author of "Not Under My Roof", which compares attitudes and other norms surrounding teenage sexualities in the United States and the Netherlands. Amy explains how the Dutch bring up their teenagers to be ready not just for sex, bu... Read more

"Anything but country" is a common answer to the question "What music do you listen to?", reflecting not just a musical taste but a class bias against the audience for country music. Dean Hubbs, Professor of Music and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, is the... Read more

Well-read Red Frann Michel gathers arguments from the left against the insistence from liberals that we must vote for Hillary Clinton in order to defeat Donald Trump.   The spectacles of the Republican and Democratic national conventions will have appalled most KBOO li... Read more

 “The emancipation of a the working classes,” said Marx, “must be conquered by the working classes themselves.” All his work was aimed at empowering the working class with the intellectual tools to do carry out that self-emancipation and self-rule. Marx never intended hi... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole that includes these pieces: 1. Bill Resnick talks with Dean Hubbs about her book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music. 2. Well-read Red Frann Michel critiques the call to vote for Clinton as the "lesser evil". 3. C... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews the novel Restless by William Boyd. Born in Ghana and of Scottish ancestry, Boyd is a British writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He’s been nominated for many awards, including the Booker and Whitbread.Considered a spy thriller, Restless is rich... Read more

Jan Haaken and Denise Morris review the Documentary Film Pay 2 Play. The film is available online from Vimeo for a small fee. Pay 2 Play details the deepening issues with money in politics, the Citizens Untitled Supreme Court Decision that unleashed millions in corporate... Read more

Jan Haaken interviews Kboo’s own Theresa Mitchell. Theresa joins the Old Mole from the DNC in Philadelphia with a special PressWatch report on the events of the week and the Socialist Convergence Conference opening Monday night (7.25.26) with the panel discussion Capital... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks Jan Zuckerman and Students Olivia Miller and Peter Sallinger of Portland’s Sunnyside Environmental School. Larry Bowlden reviews the novel Restless by William Boyd. Jan Haaken and Denise Morris review the ... Read more