Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Shutter Island is a film about madness and sanity, the power of psychiatry, and paranoia about government.  Hear why our Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Jimena Alvarado call it "bulimic film-making." Read more

 Is the healthcare proposal coming from Obama and the Congress worthy of support or rejection?  Does it lay the groundwork for continuing on to real universal healthcare, or does it block the path?  Kathleen Stoll, Director of Health Policy at Families USA, lays out the ... Read more

 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this show focuses on the healthcare debate, Shutter Island, a movie about mental health (among other things), and features the music of the late Alistair Hulett.For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. You can ... Read more

 An "incendiary mix of punk rock, Celtic folk music, and anti-imperialist, working-class, left-wing politics" ---that's how our radical musicologist Brad Duncan describes Alistair Hulett and Roaring Jack, the band he formed.  This segment contains excerpts of his songs a... Read more

Will the transition to Clean Energy lead to decentralized, worker and community controlled energy production? Or will it be centralized under corporate and state control and promote high usage and consumerism?  John Farrell works with the Institute for Local Self-Relianc... Read more

 "The best living writer anywhere," is how our Book Mole Larry Bowlden describes Alice Munro.  Here is Larry reviewing her most recent book of stories.   Larry's past reviews are here.  Read more

 What really went on between black women slaves and their mistresses on the plantations?  Thavolia Glymph, author of the prizewinning book Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about how blac... Read more

The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical ImaginationThis is the theme of this year's Left Forum Conference.  The Left Forum brings together organizers and intellectuals from across the globe to share ideas for understanding and transforming the world.  Bill Resnick... Read more

 This edition of the Old Mole Variety Hour is hosted by Denise Morris.  It deals with making energy locally, the racial,  gender and class politics of the Southern plantation household, Alice Munro's latest book, a novel by Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk,... Read more

 Here is a review and appreciation of Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's  latest novel The Museum of Innocence.  The reviewer is Josh Erdahl, and the novel is a story of class, culture and personal struggle in a changing society.   Read more