Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Larry Bowlden reviews Cory Taylor's new novel about "feeling old when you're not, and acting young when you're not."  It's called Me and Mr. Booker, and it's told in the voice of the lead character -- "a strong and mostly lucid voice."  More of Larry's reviews can be fou... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with John Farrell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance about local control of energy, the value of democratic control and participatory society, and how the economics of energy has changed in recent years to make this more feasible as well, especia... Read more

Tom Becker reads from Dave Lindorff's article "What's wrong with America?: The real enemy is growth." Read more

Alan Wieder discusses the boycott of a standardized test by the teachers at Garfield HS in Seattle. He points out the many problems with standardized tests and the ways they are (mis)used, and notes the widespread and increasing support for the boycott. He also draws on... Read more

Psychologist and Mole Jan Haaken and attorney Mike Snedeker discuss the case of Mohamed Mohamud. They consider the legal meanings of entrapment and the history of government use of entrapment in child pornography cases in the 1980s. Despite the wide public recognitio... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode featuring the music of the late Portland bluesman Paul deLay and segments on possibilites for local and democratic control of sustainable energy sources, the mistake of valuing economic "growth," the role of entrapment in the government's w... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this MLK day episode of the Old Mole, featuring -- Commentary on why Martin Luther King would not be supporting Barack Obama; Conversation about gun violence, gun control, and mental health; A review of "Django Unchained;" A d... Read more

Old Moles Bill Resnick and Jan Haaken carry on a well-informed inquiry into gun violence, gun control and mental health, and into the conversation going on in the political mainstream.   Read more

It is clear that human activity is gradually destroying our planet and that ever rising standards of living in the industrialized and industrializing nations is not sustainable.  But what would a sustainable economy look like?  Tom Becker reads from David Korten's piece ... Read more

On last week's Old Mole, Bill Resnick talked with Canadian historian Bryan Palmer  about the relations between anarchism and marxism in the 19th Century -- sometimes conflictual, sometimes cooperative.  In Part 2 of this conversation, Bill and Bryan bring these issues in... Read more