Bill Resnick talks with sociologist Charles Derber about changing attitudes among youth to the promises and dangerous realities of consumerism.

Charles Derber is a professor of sociology at Boston College.

Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear

1.  Bill Resnick talk with Alfredo López about the power of the internet for ordinary people and grass roots politics and its liability to corporate and state surveillance.

2.  Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Silvia Avallone's best seller Swimming to Elba.

Fifty-two percent of the American people believe wealth should be more evenly distributed by heavily taxing the rich.  In a recent article in the Guardian, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders urges that the massive inequality between the tiny minority of super rich and the rest of us must not be allowed to become the "new normal".  Tom Becker reads.