Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Lily King's novel Euphoria, a fictional account inspired by events in the lives of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. You can find more of Larry's reviews here on his blog: http://oldmolelist.blogspot.com/ Read more

Frann Michel discusses the film Pride (2014) and the value of visionary fiction. For the text of her remarks with links to more information, go here. Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Old Mole. Here is what's on tap:   About 50% of the kids of Oregon live in poverty. What do you think our business leaders think should be done about that? Stay tuned. Our Movie Moles review the film “Let the Fire Burn” in mem... Read more

Bill Resnick and Tyler MacGuiness of the Oregon Center for Public Policy explore Child poverty in Oregon. Twenty-five percent of Oregon kids live in destitution, 50% are in ordinary poverty, and 75% of those are in working families. The "business community" has become co... Read more

Some writers on climate change use the idea of the "Anthropocene" to blame humanity in general for the degradation caused by burning fossil fuels. Andrea Malm critiques this concept in this article from Jacobin, read here in abridged form by Clayton Morgareidge. Capitali... Read more

Bill Resnick hosts this episode and it includes the following, together with music about being poor. 1.  Bill Resnick talks with Tyler Macguiness of the Oregon Center for Public Policy about the extent of child poverty in Oregon and what business leaders are willing, ... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear...   Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbury, a former KBOO Labor Radio host, who now works for the monthly labor magazine, Labor Notes. Larry Bowlden reviews "Intrusions", by Ursula Helgi---a novel within a novel that grapp... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Ursula Hegi's "Intrustions", a novel within a novel that confronts the writer's conflicted as a mother and artist. Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbary about the monthly journal, Labor Notes. They discuss exciting developments Labor Notes covers, the kind of radical rank-and-file tendency that they support through both their magazine, but also books digesting examples of recent succes... Read more

Joe Clement talks with Cassie Thornton about her use of debt for the last 7 years as a subject for her art-work. She describes how she's sought to concretize debt, explore debt through hypnotherapeutic visualization exercises with others, and in the end how she's gotten ... Read more