Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Voters in Maine just repealed a law that legalized gay marriage -- but is that the issue LGBT people should be organizing around?  Maine queer activist Ryan Conrad says the marriage equality campaign is a distraction from improving the lives of gay people.  He tells why... Read more

 This Old Mole episode is hosted by Denise Morris (pictured here), and features discussions of how the system limits the actions of Presidents; two movies about mothers and sons; whether "Hell is other people" (as a  line in Sartre's play No Exit has it); and whether the... Read more

 This show, hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, raises questions about the impact of dams on native peoples in Canada; how to get automobiles out of our cities; Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help about black servants in Jackson, Missississippi in the '60s; is  it too late to p... Read more

 Kathryn Stockett's  new novel The Help is about a white southern writer trying to tell the stories  of black domestic servants in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s.   Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden wrestles with the problems this poses.   For an archive of Larry's reviews,... Read more

 Tina Loo studies the impact of  hydropower projects on native people in Canada, and here she talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about how the techno-perspective of policy makers blinds them to the impacts of their projects on life in the areas where they are  loca... Read more

 How could our cities get rid of cars?  What would city life be like without them?  J.H. Crawford writes about these questions, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about a future of car-free cities. Read more

 In this Well-read Red segment, Clayton Morgareidge reviews some of the  ways our digital activity is recorded and is increasingly being sorted and reviewed by both industry and government.  He asks whether  privacy is a lost cause, and if so, what kind of world would be... Read more

 President Obama is caught between his base wanting withdrawal from Afghanistan, and his generals, wanting escalation, according to this article in Rolling Stone by Robert Dreyfus, excerpted and discussed here by Bill Resnick.    Read more

 Two journalists with  long experience in Afghanistan talk with Bill Resnick about why US policy there is failing.  Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald are  authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story. Read more

 In the first of the Old Mole Mole's new feature, The Law and the Left, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker  discuss why the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 in Texas for a crime of which he was almost certainly innocent,  is so central to the fight against cap... Read more