Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom reads Dave Lindorff's "A Profound and Jarring Disconnect." This article documents the disconnect between what the American people want in terms of spending-cuts, program priorities and tax increases and what the Obama administration continues to do, in their name and... Read more

 The price of food is going up.  Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starving and many other works, talks with Bill Resnick about how weather, farming, and food distribution combine to make food harder to get for many millions around the world.  Among other positions, Patel... Read more

 Today it seems that mainstream and right-wing pundits prefer their heroes dead, the better to bowlderize their words and twist their messages.  Well-read Red Frann Michel draws on many sources to remind  us of the radical dimensions of Martin Luther King's legacy. You c... Read more

 Capitalism exploits our labor, but at least wage workers usually get paid for time on the job.  But what happens when governments and other institutions offer prizes for a job done?  Then many people labor, but only the winner wins.  Joe Clement reads from Jodi Dean's b... Read more

 Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden comments on Danielle Evans's short stories Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self.  They are funny and often heartbreaking stories of young women, black, white and in between.  More of Larry's reviews, including this one,  are available here... Read more

 Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Old Mole celebrating Martin Luther King day in music and commentary.    For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can also follow us on Facebook. To hear the whole show (including music), use t... Read more

 Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole where the topics include the Teamsters and democracy, a local production of Harold Pinter's play about torture, a review of the Coen Brothers film True Grit, and an op-ed debunking the "menace" of Islamist terrorism in Europ... Read more

 Peter Landon has had a long career as a truck driver and Teamster union activist with TDU (Teamsters for a Democratic Union).  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about union democracy and the campaign to replace James P. Hoffa with Sandy Pope as president of... Read more

 Harold Pinter's play One For the Road is being performed at Blackfish Gallery (NW 9th & Flanders) by the Readers' Repertory Theater this weekend, January 14 and 15.  Director David Berkson talks about the play with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken.  The story of a master inter... Read more

 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement  discuss the Coen brothers version of True Grit.  What is this film saying about the role of women in the American West?  About commerce?  About justice? Read more