Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale reads an essay by philosopher Lisa Guenther on "The Living Death of Solitary Confinement" on how forcible isolation destroys the capacity to understand the world, can lead to prisoners losing touch with reality, and fails to provide the opportunity and obligation... Read more

Frann Michel hosts and we hear: -> Bill Resnick talks with historian Bill Smaldone about the rise through the late 19th and early 20th centuries of German Social Democracy, the most radical mass movement towards radically democratic socialism, including the goal of work... Read more

Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone start a two-part conversion about the German Social Democratic party in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Smaldone lays out the historical context of the consolidating and industrializing German state, then explains how the Social Democrats emer... Read more

Joe Clement interviews John Langly of the Red and Black cafe, an all-vegan cafe that's cooperatively owned by its worker as well as collectively managed. They talk about this radical approach to managing an organization, the intersection between community and workplace o... Read more

 On Today's Old Mole, Frann Michel hosts, and we hear about how German social democrats built a parallel society for working people, a movie review of a Bob Marley biopic, and from a worker at the Red and Black cafe about their cooperatively owned and collectively manage... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bil Resnick continues his conversation with Chris Toensing about the future of the Arab Springs Movie Moles, Joe and Iven Hale, review The Trotsky, which is a farsical film about a young Quebecois man who believes he ... Read more

Joe Clement and Iven Hale review the Canadian film The Trotsky.  Although students in Quebec have been massively politically active against austerity, the 2009 feature The Trotsky treats student politics as farce.  The well-acted film, about a young man who believes he i... Read more

Frann Michel reviews Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, which argues that the idea that only capitalism is realistic is itself a distorted ideology. Fisher tries to make complex theory accessible, and highlights the contradictory impacts of capitalism on mental healt... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts this week's show and we hear these segments: --> Bill Resnick concludes his interview with Chris Toensing about the Arab Spring and its implications for the West. (Part One of their conversation is here.) --> Joe and Iven Hale review the Canadian film The... Read more

Bill Resnick concludes his interview with Chris Toensing about the Arab Spring and its implications for the West. You can find Part One here. In this audio, they briefly review their earlier conversation, and they discuss the destabilizing effects of competition for oil re... Read more