Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel offers some comments on recent gun violence, with links here. Read more

  This show considers schools, killing, killlings in schools, and civil rights and rock & roll. Hosted by Frann Michel, with music by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and more. For information on our graphics, theme song, or name, see our main show page.  Frann Michel commen... Read more

 Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Janet Redman, an environmental agitator who has been at the UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar. Joe Clement interviews Fabian Romero about "Self Preservation In Times Of Oppressi... Read more

 In the 1950s, Studs Terkel was confronted for his leftist sympathies by the FBI and the notorious House Unamerican Activities Committee.  Commemorating the centenary of Studs Terkel's birth, Old Mole Alan Wieder recalls some of that history as our nation is again obsess... Read more

  Hosted by Denise Morris, this episode covers a wide variety of topics: the current situation in Egypt, an imaginary encounter between Nietzsche and Freud in Vienna, an upcoming workshop on surviving and thriving in oppressive times, and how Studs Terkel dealt with agen... Read more

 Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with middle-east expert Stephen Zunes about the forces struggling for the future of Egypt as the political turmoil there continues.  What are the prospects for a genuinely democratic society? Bill and Stephen discuss the roles of the Muslim B... Read more

"History is fiction that did happen; fiction is history that might have happened."  This thought guided the author of When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession, Irvin D. Yalom, as he imagines an encounter between the iconoclastic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and psych... Read more

 Fabian Romero, queer Chicano poet, performance artist and community organizer, helped to found several writing and performance groups including Hijas de Su Madre, Las Mamalogues and Mixed Messages: Stories by People of Color.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Joe Clement... Read more

 Joe Clement talks with Kathi Weeks about her book "The Problem with Work: feminism, marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries". They discuss the work ethic and why it promises more than it delivers. They also consider the tradition of antiwork politics and how... Read more

Iven Hale hosts this next episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Alan Wieder comments on Obama's "deformist", neoliberal education policies.  Joe Clement interviews Kathi Weeks about her somewhat recent book "The Problem With Work: feminism, marxism, ... Read more