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Movie Moles: Amy

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the first of two film reviews for this Labor Day Mole 2015, movie moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss "Amy", directed by Asif Kapadia, about British singer and guitarist Amy Winehouse.  The film explores the exploitation and commodification of art and the art... Read more

Labor Day's Radical Roots

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reflects on Labor Day's radical roots. All too often pitted against celebrations of International Workers Day, Labor Day was born of the same international-tending workers movement that also gave birth to May Day. To help tell this story, Joe reads from Eugen... Read more

Movie Moles: What Happened Miss Simone?

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the second of two reviews this episode, movie moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss What Happened Miss Simone?, directed by Liz Garbus, about African American pianist and singer Nina Simone.  Like Amy, the film draws on a rich archive of materials, including Si... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 7, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: The Movie Moles review two documentaries about female musicians. The first is about Amy Winehouse, the second is about Nina Simone. Bill Resnick talks with Mark Jacobson about scaling up renewable energies to meet real-w... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 08/31/15

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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Liberal Anxieties

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The modern bureaucratic state was built during the New Deal and World War II by liberals who had doubts about a big state with a big bureaucracy. Anne Kornhauser tells the story in her book Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970. ... Read more

Does Too Much Choice Paralyze Us?

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan examine psychologist Barry Schwartz' thesis in The Paradox of Choice - that having so many choices in consumer society makes us miserable.  They offer more compelling angles on the psychology of choice and economic behavior drawing on Marx and Ma... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 31, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick talks with historian Anne Kornhauser about left and right takes on bureacracy at the time of the New Deal. 2.  Tom Becker reads from Colin Todhunter's piece in Counterpunch about capitalism and t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Jeremy Beclher, author of "Strike" on his latest book "Climate Insurgency: A Battle for Survival."  Clayton Morgareidge shares an article by Alex Gourevitch entitled "Our Forgotten Labor Revolution."   Joe Clement and Denis Morris continue their dis... Read more

Radical Reconstruction

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reads from a piece by Alex Gourevitch in the current issue of Jacobin "Our Forgotten Labor Revolution" arguing that the Reconstruction of the South following the Civil War was ended because its promise of freedom was threatening to go beyond the aboli... Read more