Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

A couple of weeks ago here on the Old Mole Variety Hour  I offered a round-up of some left commentary arguing against the project of voting for the presidential candidate who seems to be the lesser evil.  In reply, I've heard many good questions and comments from friends,... Read more

  Thom Becker hosts this episode and Thom reads about not being socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Bill Resnick interviews Hilary Wainwright about the UK left. Frann Michel comments again on lesser evil voting. Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Americanah. Thom re... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks to Amy Schalet about teen sex and love in the US and Netherlands Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith about life in US-Mexico border communities Denise Morris talks with Don't Shoot Portland organizer and f... Read more

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

Jan Haaken talks with activist Sophie Smith about the realities of life in communities along the U.S. Mexico border, in counter to the rhetoric coming from the far right via Trump. Smith is an organizer with People Helping People in Aravaca, Arizona. They also talking ab... Read more

On the cusp of the 2-year anniversary of the police shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent uprising in Ferguson, Missouri, Denise Morrs talks with Don't Shoot Portland organizer and founder Teressa Raiford. She explains how Don't Shoot Portland was organized in lig... 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