Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Mondragón is a large and successful set of worker-owned and cooperatively managed enterprises in the Basque region of Spain.  Sociologist George Cheney has studied and written about Mondragón for many years, and here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how th... Read more

Old Mole guest Paul Roland conducts a wide-ranging conversation about listener-supported non-commercial radio with Paul Stockwell, a long-time member of the management collective at WORT in Madison, Wisconsin.  They talk about the historical origins of this kind of commu... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge will host this episode of the Old Mole which includesBill Resnick talking with sociologist Charles Derber about how and why young people are becoming more skeptical about consumerism;A Left and the Law segment about Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, an... Read more

Iven Hale reads an article from the Guardian written by Glenn Greenwald about what's scary when military, marriage and corporate sponsorship all show up at the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. Read more

Alan Wieder reviews Thai Jone's part family history and part cultural history, "A Radical Line: from the labor movement and weatherunderground". Thai Jones writes about his parents life underground and radical activities.  Read more

Bill Resnick talks with sociologist Charles Derber about changing attitudes among youth to the promises and dangerous realities of consumerism.Charles Derber is a professor of sociology at Boston College. Read more

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker discuss recent NSA leaks and the demonization of whistle-blowers by official and popular sources. Read more

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Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews the Italian best seller Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone about the lives and friendship of two Italian girls who imagine escaping from their oppressive Italian coastal steel mill town.  Larry says it's "a powerful book" informed by ... Read more

Fifty-two percent of the American people believe wealth should be more evenly distributed by heavily taxing the rich.  In a recent article in the Guardian, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders urges that the massive inequality between the tiny minority of super rich and the re... Read more