Juliet Hooker on black protest politics. (Host: C.S. Soong; air date: January 19, 2016)
Big Picture Ideas: The Best of Against the Grain
Thirty-three illuminating conversations with some of the smartest thinkers on the radical left.
Sarah Schulman on how AIDS paved the way for massive gentrification. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: March 27, 2012)
David McIvor on Sheldon Wolin’s understanding of democratic practice. (Host: C.S. Soong; air date: March 28, 2017)
Corey Robin on political fear, both the fears of those on top and those on the bottom. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: August 17, 2011)
Barbara Ellen Smith and Jamie Winders on work, life, and class difference. (Host: C.S. Soong; air date: April 27, 2016)
Frank Bardacke on the United Farm Workers’ militant rank and file. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: December 6, 2011)
Frank Wilderson, III on Blacks and the master/slave relation. (Host: C.S. Soong; air date: March 4, 2015)
Peter Hudis on how freedom, including from a repressive state apparatus, was central to Marx’s concept of life after capitalism. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: November 29, 2016)
Farah Godrej on the subversive potential of Tantric thought. (Host: C.S. Soong; air date: September 6, 2017)
Robert Proctor on why cigarettes may be the world’s deadliest invention. (Host: Sasha Lilley; air date: October 16, 2012)