Against the Grain

Free Universities

As universities become increasingly infiltrated and transformed by capitalist logics, what do free universities add to the educational, social, and political landscape? Fern Thompsett, a Ph.D. student at McGill University, co-founded a free university in Australia; she’s also researched more than two dozen free university projects in North America. Thompsett describes both the free-of-charge and … Continued


Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Elisabeth Rosenthal about her book An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal was for twenty-two years a reporter, correspondent, and senior writer at The New York Times before becoming the editor in chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent journalism newsroom focusing on health … Continued


On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich interviews Brian Carso. Brian Carso, is both a lawyer and a historian. He is Associate Professor of History and Government at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. And the author of the book “Whom Can We Trust Now?: The Meaning of Treason in the United States, from the Revolution through the Civil War”.       … Continued