Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement and Josh Eidelson talk about the pitfalls of organizing workers (into unions) on the model of a business. The practice is widely known as "service-unionism" or "business-unionism" and  in many ways boils down union membership to a customer relation to a servi... Read more

Bill Resnick will host this show on which Bill interviews Burkhard Bilger about his New Yorker article "The Great Oasis": What can be done to halt the encroachment of deserts on land where people live and food is grown? Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel re... Read more

 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel criticize some critics of Albert Nobbs, a film about gender-switching to get ahead in 19th Century Dublin. Read more

 Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden, in recognition of Black History Month, reviews Richard Wright's 1953 novel The Outsider about a man trying to come to terms with midcentury life with Marxism and existentialism.   Read more

 This Old Mole Variety Hour features music from a Fall 2010 concert called "Living Water" by Satori Men's Chorus is a Portland group of amateur singers, directed by Susan Dorn, and calling themselves "Men Singing Peace."  This segment begins with an excerpt from "Ol' Man... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode of The Mole, featuring a discussion of desertification and music about water from Satori Men's Chorus, as well as an interview with the author of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, an... Read more

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about her book Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Must gay, lesbian, and transgendered people give up their distinctive cultures and be regimented into mainstream American life in order to be accepted... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Burkhard Bilger about his New Yorker article "The Great Oasis": What can be done to halt the encroachment of deserts on land where people live and food is grown? They emphasize the effective grassroots movements that are most successful. Read more

Tom Becker will host this episode featuring The demonization of Iran: Anthropologist and author William Beeman talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. Beeman is the author of The “Great Satan” vs. the “Mad Mullahs”: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Othe... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews William Beeman, author of "The Great Satan and the Mad Mullahs: how the US and Iran demonize each another". They talk about the history and patterns of this demonization, and why & how the same people who argued for war in Iraq over weapons of mas... Read more