Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this membership-drive special and we hear:   Biill Resnick interviews Frances Moore Lappe, coauthor of Diet for a Small Planet. They discuss democracy in every day life, what it means, and its place in broader politics. Norm Diamond interviews l... Read more

Steve Early is the author, most recently, of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress, in addition to many other books and articles.  He has been active as a labor journalist, lawyer, organizer, or union representative since 1972. Here he talks with Old Mo... Read more

Frances Moore Lappé, famously the author of Diet for a Small Planet, has been writing and speaking about ecology, democracy, and the way we live for many years.  Her most recent book is EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want, and she talks here wi... Read more

The satirical newspaper The Onion is the purveyor of insights from Marx in such articles as “Laid Off Man Finally Achieves Perfect Work-Life Balance”.   This is the claim of Emmett Rensin in a recent article in The New Republic, "The Onion Has Become America's Finest Mar... Read more

Joe Clement is our host for this Membership Drive special for the Old Mole, playing music from the late Pete Seeger.  We hear  Norm Diamond and labor journalist Steve Early discuss the need to revitalize Union movement with democracy. Frances Moore Lappé talks wit... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the old mole variety hour featuring the music of Pete Seeger Bill Resnick interviews Feminist blogger and writer Soraya Chemaly on football and the Super Bowl Larry Bowlden reviews the teen novel Divergent by author Veronica Rot... Read more

Bill Resnick and Soraya Chemaly talk about football as an institution of popular US culture. They discuss how it perpetuates toxic masculinity and jingoism, socializes fans into power dynamics of centrality and marginality, and is not a very good platform for altheticism... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and, in addition to the music of Pete Seeger, we hear: Bill Resnick and Soraya Chemaly about football as an institution of popular culture. Frann Michel offers a Well-read Red on Education in the Age of Neoliberalism. Joe Cl... Read more

Frann Michel offers a Well-read Red on education in the age of neoliberalism. She outlines the historical transfers of power and responsibility for public education that have deformed the public university into a crass commercial project. From there she interrogates how ... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews "Divergent" by Veronica Roth. The book is written for youth, but Larry recommends it for older readers too. It looks at a futuristic dystopia in which five rigidly defined social "factions" structure society like into personality type castes - kind ... Read more