Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

As a special post-Valentine's Day segment, Jan Haaken talks with Mimi Schippers, associate professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Tulane University, about polyandrous sexual practices and the conservative side of monogamous pair bonding. Schippers has a forthcoming... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which will include: Bill Resnick talks with Eric Lecompte Executive Director of Jubilee Network USA. They discuss the devastating debt poor countries owe preditory global banking institutions. Larry Bowlden reviews ... Read more

Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews a debut novel by Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You. A young Chinese-American girl is raised by a mother who wants for her daughter all the things she wanted for herself but sacrificed to her marriage and children, and a father who wa... Read more

KBOO's current membership drive inspires Bill Resnick and host Denise Morris to discuss a recent article by Glen Greenwald that responds to media coverage of recent atrocities by ISIS by reminding us of less publicized ongoing atrocities by the US and its allies. KBOO no... Read more

Denise Morris hosts this episode dealing with the crushing debt owed by poor nations to wealthy financial institutions; a new novel about a Chinese-American girl; and how ideas of child rearing intersect with ideas about social welfare. We also hear a discussion of KBOO... Read more

Jubilee USA is an organization working to expose and reverse the debt loads that cripple the economies of many poor nations. The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with Jubilee's director Eric LeCompte about how this debt was incurred and how Jubilee works to challenge the bi... Read more

Beliefs about child rearing come from the same root as beliefs about social welfare. Clayton Morgareidge discusses differing views about whether children should be fed and comforted on demand or on a schedule. Since psychologists now say parents should attend to their ch... Read more

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Diane Elliot of the Pew Charitable Trust talk about the 57% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Alan Weider offers commentary on the life and times of oral historian Studs Turkel as part of a monthly series, ... Read more

This is the second installment* in Alan Weider's ongoing project to remember and revive the work of Studs Turkel. In March of 1965, Studs went to Montgomery, the capital of Alabama. There he would talk with locals about their personal feelings and what they hear others s... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Diane Elliot of the Pew Charitable Trust about the 57% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, either in poverty or one "misforture" away from it. Read more