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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
In her forthcoming book UC Hastings law professor Hadar Aviram describes how recession-era discourses of austerity and frugality are changing incarceration and penality in the US. For more details and higher-quality audio, visit againstthegrain.org.
Medical error is, by some estimates, the third leading cause of death in the US. So does the medical malpractice system work to compensate patients (or their heirs)? According to Lochlann Jain, that system has been gutted by physicians, by insurance companies, and by lawmakers influenced by industry propaganda. For more details and higher-quality audio, … Continued
Richard Swift considers alternatives to capitalism, from state socialism to anarchism, social democracy to degrowth.
Adam Kotsko on the Italian theorist Giorgio Agamben’s ideas about sovereign power vis-à-vis the individual. For more details and higher-quality audio, visit againstthegrain.org.
A landmark federal law bans human trafficking. So why does Grace Chang assert that the US sponsors human trafficking? And why doesn’t Chang like the federal antitrafficking regime’s emphasis on sex trafficking and prostitution? (Encore presentation.) For more details and higher-quality audio, visit againstthegrain.org.
Christian Parenti on why radicals need to engage with the state to stop climate change. For more information: http://www.againstthegrain.org/
People with criminal records are written off by society. Is that fair, asks Emily Baxter, given that we’ve all violated the law at one time or another? For more details and higher-quality audio, visit againstthegrain.org.
Barbara Epstein and Kevin Anderson explore the rise and fall of socialist humanist ideas — and what its decline has meant for the left.
David Palumbo-Liu makes the case for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel. He discusses academic freedom and the firing of Steven Salaita from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
