Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Bill comments on the accusations that Democrats went too far left in the last two years, and suggests that a major component of their losses in the last election was a looming threat by businesses to set up shop elsewhere. We are told to lay of the Democrats for not com... Read more

 Today's Old Mole, hosted by Bill Resnick, is almost all about the elections. It features interviews about election psychology, organizing for a free society, and how competition ties the hands of progressive city politics. We also hear two commentaries about the electio... Read more

 Well-read Red Frann Michel combs the left press for analysis of the John Stewart - Stephen Colbert rallies over the weekend, and the reasons why protests in the streets are much more effective than even the protesters suppose.  You can read this piece here.   Read more

 Ian McEwan's 1992 novel Black Dogs shows us a split in the human psyche embodied in two very different people living in the aftermath of World War II amidst postwar hopes for socialism.  Larry Bowlden explains why this book is worth reading.  More of Larry's reviews. Read more

 Today's Movie Moles are Jan Haaken and Bill Resnick, and they continue the theme of Bill's interview with Bill Black about criminal banking as they discuss Inside Job, a documentary by Charles Ferguson that exhibits the short-sightedness, stupidity, and criminality of f... Read more

 Bill Black is a former bank regulator who speaks and writes widely on banking and finance.  In this interview with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick, he makes clear just how corrupt the whole banking industry is.  We, that is our government, do not root out the felons in the ... Read more

 Joe Clement hosts this show about corrupt banking, political protests, and the human psyche, with musical breaks about the 17th Century Diggers (or Levelers), who were the Moles of their time.  The songs are "The World Turned Upside" Down by Leon Rosselson (sung here by... Read more

 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program features the French national anthem La Marseillaise which celebrates the victory of the people over the aristocracy in the revolution of 1789.  Against this background, Bill interviews economist Richard Wolff about the class struggle... Read more

Out in the Silence is the true story of a small American town confronting a firestorm of controversy ignited by a same-sex wedding announcement in the local newspaper.  Movie Mole Wendy Webb interviews the directors Dean Hamer and Joseph Wilson.  Read Wendy Webb's movie ... Read more

 The French working class has been in the news for massive protests of austerity moves to limit their pensions, but the issues are much more profound.  Economist Professor Richard Wolff has been studying France for many years, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill R... Read more