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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.
As David K. Johnson reveals, the US government-instigated Lavender Scare, which targeted gays and lesbians, was more vehement and long-lasting than McCarthy’s Red Scare. For more details and higher-quality audio, visit againstthegrain.org.
Dale Jamieson considers the science and politics of global warming — and why those in power failed to stop it, setting the world on course for a thousand years of climate disruption.
Sarah Nilsen discusses the relationship between television shows like Mad Men and the ideology of colorblindness pushed by the right. For more details and higher-quality audio, visit againstthegrain.org.
In part two of an extended interview, Jason W. Moore talks about whether capitalism is running out of cheap nature — including labor — to exploit.
Corey Robin, author of “The Reactionary Mind,” discusses the intellectual underpinnings of the Right.
Incarceration is commonly understood as detention in prisons and jails. Liat Ben-Moshe argues that the term’s meaning should be broadened to include confinement in places like psychiatric hospitals, mental institutions, and even nursing homes. Ben-Moshe discusses the trend toward deinstitutionalization, the position of people with disabilities in capitalist society, and what she calls the institution-industrial … Continued
Jason W. Moore argues against the notion of the Anthropocene — or the age of humans — for understanding climate change. He argues that we should instead see it as an outgrowth of the Capitalocene, or age of capital. Part one of a two part interview.
Rebecca Gordon discusses her new book Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States.
Historical sociologist Fouad Makki discusses with host Sasha Lilley the massive rush by countries and corporations to acquire land in Africa, and considers the forces behind the “new enclosures” of commonly-held property. For more information, go to againstthegrain.org
Political theorist and media scholar Jodi Dean discusses why communism remains such a powerful ideological force — and why the left should claim the term without apology.
