Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Is Goldman Sachs "little better than a criminal enterprise that earns its billions by bilking the market, the government, and even its own clients in a bewildering variety of complex financial scams"?  Or is "Goldman guilty of [nothing] except being "too smart" and really,... Read more

 Novelist Ian McEwan is able "to display clearly how brilliant accomplishment in one area of a life can be, and very often is, combined with absurd ineptness (or worse) in other areas."  Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden discusses McEwan's new novel Solar about a man whose person... Read more

  Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program deals with crime in the suites that goes unpunished and crime in the streets that is punished if committed while being black.  We hear from a former federal finance regulator about the snowballing malfeasance in the finance industry; a... Read more

Bill Black, a former bank regulator, has been writing about financial fraud in high places at least sine the S&L scandal in the early '90s.  His book about that is The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry.  He... Read more

 Special guest Bill McKibben talks with Bill Resnick about how we are going to have to live on this rapidly changing planet.  Tom Becker,  host for today's show, reads an op-ed urging an end to the war on marijuana.  And our Movie Moles take on the controversial Swedish fil... Read more

 Well-known author and global warming activist, Bill McKibben, founder of the 350 movement, sits down with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick for this special 30-minute interview about the state of the Earth and  what humanity (that is, you and me) will have to do to survive on a ... Read more

April 20, or 4/20, is the day when protests against punitive marijuana laws will take place around the country.  Bill Piper is director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance Network, and makes this plea to everyone, smoker or not, to get involved in repealing thes... Read more

 Our Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Wendy Webb discuss the sexual politics of the new Swedish film Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.  The film deals with sexual violence, revenge, and the decadence of upper-class Swedish society.   Read more

Physicist and environmental activist Chris Williams talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the disasters that await our planet if nothing is done to stop global warming.  He also has good news: the technology already exists to solve the problem.  Williams is the autho... Read more

Jobs are not coming back with the so-called "economic recovery" -- and will be a long time coming.  If there's not encough work, why not spread it around?   Clayton Morgareidge looks at some ways  to do this. You can read his remarks here.    Read more