Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Bill and Jane talk about the relationship between welfare and the working-poor, paying special attention to working-mothers in Jane's research. Jane says she and her colleagues have wanted to know how the relationship between government, families and business has change... Read more

Joe talks with Jessica Chanay of Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon about the food-stamps program, its importance for recipients and society at large, and what it would mean if we applied 1996 Welfare Reform type cuts to it, as current legislators want to.   Read more

 Joe reads from Joshua Holland's July 1st Alternet essay about the over-blown importance of what 18th Century men might think about our world today. Read more

  On the next Old Mole, Tom Becker hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Thomas Doyle, a Catholic priest of the Domincan order who spoke out against sex-abuse in the Church and how it handled it long before the mainstream press picked it up. They consider the re... Read more

When we anthropomorphize nation-states and endow them with unmitigated self-expression we have a succinct definition of American exceptionalism, which is one part nationalism and another chauvanistic individualism. Tom Becker reads an article from Alter-Net that explores... Read more

Recently a report by US Catholic Bishops charges the 1960s with corrupting priests - among other things, because of promoting sexual freedom. Thomas Doyle, a Catholic Priest rejects this, pointing out it was a global problem, and relates his experience within the Church ... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts today's Old Mole and we hear:   Laurie Mercier and Rob Weissman talk about public investment and public goods. Movie Moles, Joe Clement and Denise Morris, discuss The Tree of Life. Bill and Thomas Doyle talk about connecting 1960s free-love... Read more

 Joe and Denise discuss Terrence Malick's 2011 film about life, the universe and 1950s. They touch on the tragedy of autonomy, the naturalization of market competition in American psycho-spiritual life, and the contradiction between the American Dream and the reality of ... Read more

Robert Weissman points out it is still possible for government-owned companies like GM to be directed toward producing public goods, like mass-transit. Rob also suggests that there's no reason the government couldn't operate a publically-owned bank through Citi-group and... Read more

  On the next Old Mole, Laurie Mercier hosts, and we hear: Bill Resnick speaks with Brian Terrell about Obama''s and Israeli expansion of drone warfare, and its consequences for people under attack as well as international law and justice, particularly as it legit... Read more