Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Co-written and directed by Zach Snyder, known for 300 and Watchmen, Sucker Punch follows girl wrongfully committed to an asyllum with four other girls seeking freeom and blurs the violence of sexual oppression with its violent resistance. Joe Clement and Wendy Webb discu... Read more

Hasn't Marx been proven wrong countless times by ALL the economists? Isn't it the Europeans who are held back by class, while Americans transcend class? Michael Schwalbe, a sociology professor at University of North Carolina, begs to differ and explains how class-struggle ... Read more

 Today's Old Mole, hosted by Bill Resnick, looks at the politics of energy, worker activism in Wisconsin, Christy Moore's music and a book-review of "Out Stealing Horses."    For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can also follow... Read more

Larry describes a father's tumultous inner-life hiding in the slow story-telling of "Out Stealing Horses," written by Norweigan author Per Petterson.   You can find the text to this and other reviews at Larry's blog.   Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show which looks into-- Nuclear power and the disaster in Japan (a Bill Resnick interview) The new Vietnamese action movie Clash (Our Movie Moles report) Why full employment is never on the table (by Well-read Red C... Read more

 Longtime anti nuclear activist and journalist Harvey Wasserman joins the Old Mole's Bill Resnick for a conversation about the dangers and costs of nuclear energy and the immediate promise of available alternative technologies for generating and conserving energy.  Wasse... Read more

 Chris Hedges has written a dark and powerful prognosis about the future of our civilization, and Tom Becker reads an edited version of  it for us here.  It's title is This Time We're Taking the Whole Planet With Us.   Read more

 There are many ways government could create jobs, and yet with almost 16% real unemployment, very little is being done.  Clayton Morgareidge draws on an insightful article from 70 years ago by Michal Kalecki, recently republished in the Monthly Review, to explain why.   Read more

 Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show which features anti-nuke activist Harvey Wasserman, a movie about Palestinian immigrants, a dark vision of our civilization's decline, and a discussion of why our current economic system cares little about creating jobs.   For informa... Read more

 Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken discuss the new film starring Matt Damon, The Adjustment Bureau, based (very loosely) on a short story by Philip K. Dick.  What is this satirical movie really satirizing, and what Hollywood movie assumptions does it leave solidly i... Read more