Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Everyone has seen the 1946 Christmas classic Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, but have you ever really thought about it?  What is its message about banking, money, property, and community?  Our Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken will ... Read more

 Atheists are among the least trusted groups in the US, according to a recent study, and in this essay "Why Are  People Still Afraid of Atheism" Tom Jacobs explores the reasons why.  The Old Mole's Tom Becker reads it for us.   Read more

Jim Cook is engaged in a struggle to save the U.S. Postal Service from a crisis that may bring it down and leave all our mail in the hands of private corporations.  Here he talks with Bill Resnick about why the crisis is a fake and what needs to be done about it.  Jim is... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Chris Williams about the International Climate Change Conference and how the US is undermining it. Clayton reads and comments on an essay by marxist economist, Richard Wolff, about the signif... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay (edited for radio) by marxist economist Richard Wolff, published in Monthly Review and Truth-Out. Wolff makes a quick, but potent case for workplace democracy as the next phase for Occupy. Read more

Joe reads two two inter-related blog-posts - "Are CEOs workers, and should we care?" and "Capitalism without Capitalists" - by Peter Frase. Joe mistakenly says Frase teachs at CUNY, where he is only a doctoral student in sociology. Frase writes his own blog, but is an ed... Read more

  Joe Clement hosts today's old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Chris Williams about the COP-17 international climate change conference. Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay by Richard Wolff about workplace democracy and the occupy movement. Laurie... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with Chris Williams, Physics/Chemistry professor at Pace University and author of "Ecology and Socialism", about the COP-17 international climate change conferences. The 17 stands for the number of years the conference has occured. They talk about rep... Read more

Laurie Mercier talks with Desiree Hellegers. Desiree spent time working in women's homeless shelters in the 1980s and she describes listening to them tell their stories. She says of her new book about homeless women, based in part on that experience, that "she wanted to ... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Mole in which Oregon State professor of Peace Studies Joseph Orosco talks with Bill Resnick about the Occupy Movement's call to revitalize democracy; Our Movie Moles take a look at Clint Eastwood's take on J. Edgar H... Read more