Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks to Amy Schalet about teen sex and love in the US and Netherlands Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith about life in US-Mexico border communities Denise Morris talks with Don't Shoot Portland organizer and f... Read more

 “The emancipation of a the working classes,” said Marx, “must be conquered by the working classes themselves.” All his work was aimed at empowering the working class with the intellectual tools to do carry out that self-emancipation and self-rule. Marx never intended hi... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole that includes these pieces: 1. Bill Resnick talks with Dean Hubbs about her book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music. 2. Well-read Red Frann Michel critiques the call to vote for Clinton as the "lesser evil". 3. C... Read more

"Anything but country" is a common answer to the question "What music do you listen to?", reflecting not just a musical taste but a class bias against the audience for country music. Dean Hubbs, Professor of Music and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, is the... Read more

Well-read Red Frann Michel gathers arguments from the left against the insistence from liberals that we must vote for Hillary Clinton in order to defeat Donald Trump.   The spectacles of the Republican and Democratic national conventions will have appalled most KBOO li... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews the novel Restless by William Boyd. Born in Ghana and of Scottish ancestry, Boyd is a British writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He’s been nominated for many awards, including the Booker and Whitbread.Considered a spy thriller, Restless is rich... Read more

Jan Haaken and Denise Morris review the Documentary Film Pay 2 Play. The film is available online from Vimeo for a small fee. Pay 2 Play details the deepening issues with money in politics, the Citizens Untitled Supreme Court Decision that unleashed millions in corporate... Read more

Jan Haaken interviews Kboo’s own Theresa Mitchell. Theresa joins the Old Mole from the DNC in Philadelphia with a special PressWatch report on the events of the week and the Socialist Convergence Conference opening Monday night (7.25.26) with the panel discussion Capital... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks Jan Zuckerman and Students Olivia Miller and Peter Sallinger of Portland’s Sunnyside Environmental School. Larry Bowlden reviews the novel Restless by William Boyd. Jan Haaken and Denise Morris review the ... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Mole and we hear these pieces: 1.  The Old Mole's Laurie Mercier talks with historian Herb Ruffin about the roots of Black Lives Matter and its success as a social movement.  2.  Mole Bill Resnick interviews activist and Green Party lea... Read more