Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement reflects on Labor Day's radical roots. All too often pitted against celebrations of International Workers Day, Labor Day was born of the same international-tending workers movement that also gave birth to May Day. To help tell this story, Joe reads from Eugen... Read more

In the second of two reviews this episode, movie moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss What Happened Miss Simone?, directed by Liz Garbus, about African American pianist and singer Nina Simone.  Like Amy, the film draws on a rich archive of materials, including Si... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: The Movie Moles review two documentaries about female musicians. The first is about Amy Winehouse, the second is about Nina Simone. Bill Resnick talks with Mark Jacobson about scaling up renewable energies to meet real-w... Read more

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The modern bureaucratic state was built during the New Deal and World War II by liberals who had doubts about a big state with a big bureaucracy. Anne Kornhauser tells the story in her book Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970. ... Read more

Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan examine psychologist Barry Schwartz' thesis in The Paradox of Choice - that having so many choices in consumer society makes us miserable.  They offer more compelling angles on the psychology of choice and economic behavior drawing on Marx and Ma... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick talks with historian Anne Kornhauser about left and right takes on bureacracy at the time of the New Deal. 2.  Tom Becker reads from Colin Todhunter's piece in Counterpunch about capitalism and t... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Jeremy Beclher, author of "Strike" on his latest book "Climate Insurgency: A Battle for Survival."  Clayton Morgareidge shares an article by Alex Gourevitch entitled "Our Forgotten Labor Revolution."   Joe Clement and Denis Morris continue their dis... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Jeremy Brecher, author of Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival. They discuss the limits of the Obama clean energy plan and the opportunites it offers to push for global actions that will actually help salvage a humanly liveable climate; the... Read more

Tom Becker reads Pete Dolack's Low Wages Don't Come Cheap, about wage suppression and the use of public funds to subsidize the profits of the corporate elite. [public domain image via wikipedia] Read more