Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Sharon Grant Hosts this Episode of The Old Mole which includes Social Democracy in Germany: Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone discuss the rise and fall of the German Social Democratic Party since its beginning in 1863. In September of 2021 it rose again to form a government... Read more

Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone discuss the rise and fall of the German Social Democratic Party since its beginning in 1863. In September of 2021 it rose again to form a government with a chance of dealing with the multiple crises of our time: pandemics, climate change, grow... Read more

Alexander Reid Ross is an investigative journalist, who, for nearly a decade, has studied the radical right and the dangers it poses. In 2017 he wrote the book Against the Fascist Creep. Today that creep has become a gallop. Led by Trump and his friends, close to a majority... Read more

As we begin the new year the future seems foreboding and optimism in short supply. It is an axiom of progressive politics and one of the founding principles of the Old Mole that progressive change begins at the margins—from minorities and the oppressed. Today Tom Becker rea... Read more

Oliver Sachs says if there is no memory, there is no person, no self. Suppose you remember everything but no one remembers you? You disappear, become invisible, within seconds or minutes of an encounter. Such is the setting for V.E Schwab’s fascinating tale, The Invisible L... Read more

  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Radical Right: Alexander Reid Ross is an investigative journalist, who, for nearly a decade, has studied the radical right and the dangers it poses. In 2017 he wrote the book Again... Read more

In a combination WRR and Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond introduces and reads one of the lesser-known classics of American literature, a brilliantly ironic 1865 letter from a former slave, now living with his family in the North, to his former master. The master had... Read more

Bill Resnick talks to Jeremey Brecher who wrote the book Climate Insurgency, a Strategy for Survival. Brecher begins by noting that the economies of major nations continue to increase their greenhouse gas emissions with no credible plan to reduce them. Then Brecher delivers... Read more

For generations, the Pacific Northwest has seen our forests and our labor exploited by wealthy outside interests who extract our wealth and then move on, leaving behind environmental destruction, unemployment, and struggling communities. Today on the Old Mole, writer and ph... Read more

  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole. In his Intro, Norm comments on some of important events in history that we commemorate as this year ends: The Blair Mountain uprising of 1921, Arab Spring, and more. The show continues with the following segments: Climate... Read more