Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Well-read Red Clayton Morgaredige contrasts the boardgame monopoly and the game of really existing American capitalism. There are a couple of ways Monopology is not like capitalism: everyone starts out with the same resources and success is largely determined by strategy... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures", a collection of short-stories about real life women photographers. Their lives span the 20th Century and repeat a motif of challenging sexism in the world of photography.  Read more

Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick talks with Fight for $15 labor activist, Trisha Kahle, about the movement and its political contexts   Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures".   Well-... Read more

Celebrate Membership Drive by tuning in to an Old Mole climate change special: Mark Herstsgaard on the threat of climate change and also the many reasons for hope including the growth of our movements; Mark Jacobson on how, if we mobilize our resources, we can eliminate ... Read more

In Part Two of the Old Mole two-hour special on climate change, Mark Jacobson discusses fast-track models for converting energy production to non-fossil fuels within 15-30 years. Jacobson teaches civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and has collabo... Read more

In Part 3 of the Old Mole's two-hour special program on climate change, we turn to who will own and control the new forms of carbon-free energy. John Farrell is the Directory of Democratic Energy at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and has written widely on how in... Read more

In Part 4 of the Old Mole's special two-hour program on climate change, host Iven Hale talks with labor historian and long-time Portland writer, activist, and Old Mole contributor Norm Diamond about work that Norm did to develop the field of labor environmentalism at a t... Read more

Iven Hale hosts this two-hour membership-drive special that focuses on the environment and various social struggles that link up with it (note that pitch-breaks accounts for about 40 minutes of the programming otherwise excised).  Mark Hertsgaard talks about his new boo... Read more

Part 5 of the Old Mole's two-hour special on climate change features labor historian and political activist Norm Diamond in a round table discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. They focus on how those whose political vision radical social change can best work withi... Read more

In Part One of the Old Mole two-hour special on confronting climate change, Bill Resnick talks with Mark Hertsgaard about the latest scientific findings about how and why the climate is changing and what the consequences will likely be. Hertsgaard is a journalist who ha... Read more