Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

As part of our continuing series Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond looks at the world-wide trend toward increasing authoritarianism in the institutions of the State. Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny and some of the work of Pippa Norris on cultural backlash provide insig... Read more

In this first of a two part interview, Bill Resnick speaks with Al Weinrub who wrote the policy paper “Community Power: Decentralized Community Energy in California.” Weinrub makes the case that for humanity to survive global warming we need to move away from expensive a... Read more

We end the year this morning where we began, with a commentary from the archive by our dear friend and comrade Clayton Morgareidge who passed away on January 30, 2020. Written in October 2018 for the Old Mole, “UNLEASHING THE EROTIC AFTER CAPITALISM,”is perhaps more rele... Read more

In the wake of National Homeless Person's Memorial Day, Desiree Hellegers speaks with Kaitlyn Dey and Benjamin Donlon from the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) about the impact of sweeps on people struggling to survive on the streets. Chelsea Ratzlaff talks with ... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Dean Hubbs, historian, musicologist and cultural critic at the University of Michigan. Her book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music examined the progressive currents in country music. Coming from a working union family, she came to critique the pr... Read more

  Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music: Bill Resnick interviews Dean Hubbs, historian, musicologist and cultural critic at the University of Michigan. Her book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music examined the progressive currents in country music. Coming from a working u... Read more

Bill Resnick speaks with Larry Kleinman in the second of a two part interview. Larry Kleinman, one of the founders of PCUN, Oregon’s farmworkers union is now an organizer with Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), the national lobby for immigrant rights. The first par... Read more

Tom Becker reads from an article published by In These Times on December 14, 2020, entitled, “For the Green New Deal to Work, It Has to Reject ‘Growth,’”  which challenges the false promise of economic growth as the solution to human suffering and points out the fundamen... Read more

Joe Clement and Denise Morris review the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated Christmas story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Originally aired on NBC in 1964, the GE-sponsored classic tells the story of two misfits and their eventual acceptance by Santa and his elves. But a ... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts the Old Mole today, which includes the following segments: All I want for Christmas is Immigration Reform: Bill Resnick speaks with Larry Kleinman in the second of a two part interview. Larry Kleinman, one of the founders of PCUN, Oregon’s farmwo... Read more