Against the Grain
12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays
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.
Against the Grain – May 19, 2014
Sharon Strand Ellison on the value and methods of non-defensive communication.
Against the Grain – May 13, 2014
The new documentary film Bringing It Home makes the case for industrial hemp and hemp food products.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – May 6, 2014
Marxist geographer Richard Walker talks about the rise and contours of California.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – April 30, 2014
In excerpts from a rare radio interview, French economist Thomas Piketty discusses his magisterial history of wealth inequality — which has been causing a sensation on both the left and right — arguing that barring war, revolution, and other exceptional circumstances, capitalism tends to concentrate wealth ever further.