Big Picture Ideas: The Best of Against the Grain
Thirty-three illuminating conversations with some of the smartest thinkers on the radical left.
Dina Gilio-Whitaker on the relationship between the US environmental movement and Native peoples. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: July 9, 2019)
Adam Hochschild on the Spanish Civil War and Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia.” (Host: C.S. Soong; air date: January 8, 2014)
Elizabeth Anderson on how we give up most of our rights when we take a job. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: November 1, 2017)
Vijay Prashad on neoliberalism, globalization, and Third World debt. (Host: C.S. Soong; air date: April 10, 2018)
Federico Finchelstein on what the terms fascist and populist mean in historical perspective. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: November 8, 2017)
Selma James on gender, class, unwaged work, and capitalist production. (Host: C.S. Soong; air date: April 4, 2012)
Thomas Piketty on the roots of wealth inequality, war and revolution, and the current economic crisis. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: June 4, 2014)