Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  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

 What has the Occupy Movement around the country and the world accomplished?  Should it have definite goals, and if so, what should they be?  Joseph Oresco teaches philosophy and is head of the Peace Studies program at Oregon State University, and he talks here with the ... Read more

 Is the problem with corporations that they are treated as persons -- or that they are run by and for the very wealthy?  Doug Henwood argues that the corporate form makes possible necessary social functions that ordinary persons could not perform.  Clayton Morgareidge co... Read more

 What is left out of Clint Eastwood's biopic J. Edgar, starring Leonardo diCaprio?  J. Edgar Hoover was the founder and long-time director of the FBI.    Movie Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris discuss the film and some missing historical background.  For other critiq... Read more

  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode in which the Moles look at the meaning and future of the Occupy Movement, the question of corporate personhood, and the new movie J. Edgar.  We also hear some topical music from Laurie Anderson and a letter about health care.  For... Read more

Denise hosts this episode of the Old Mole in which she interviews Portland sociologist and activist Johanna Brenner about reclaiming the idea of welfare.   Also on the show: Bill Resnick talks with Portland writer Kristian Williams about the function of policing in class... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews The Little Bride, a first novel by Anna Solomon about a mail order bride coming from Odessa to live in a sod house on the prairie in the 19th Century. Read more

The function of police in the U.S. has always been to protect the property and status of the ruling elite (aka the 1%), according to Kristian William's important book Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America. Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about h... Read more

Host Denise Morris talks with Johnanna Brenner about welfare -- its history and meaning.  Is welfare something to be demeaned, as it is when we call the subsidies and tax breaks for corporations "welfare for the rich"? Doesn't that play into the right-wing idea that welf... Read more

 Kate Sherman was in on the Occupation from near the beginning, and here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about her experience of its intense participatory democracy and community solidarity.  This interview was recorded on Thursday, November 10, prior to the c... Read more