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 – September 18, 2013
According to Priya Kandaswamy, race is socially constructed, and the construction of race is a gendered and sexualized process.
Against the Grain – September 17, 2013
What accounts for the disportionate involvement of American Jews in leftist causes, socialist parties, and radical debates? A book by Tony Michels traces the contributions made by Jewish immigrants and their offspring to left-wing theory and activism. Also, Amy Herzog has written a play about three generations of a radical Jewish family.
Against the Grain – September 16, 2013
What does it mean to say that we humans are alienated from nature? Does that statement even make sense? Not according to philosopher Steven Vogel, who contends that another kind of alienation is at play, one that we can and must address.
Against the Grain – September 11, 2013
What does or should economics explain? How well can economists’ utopian models help us understand our messy world of class-based tensions and rampant inequality? Seth Ackerman examines these issues in the context of both mainstream and radical economics.
Against the Grain – September 10, 2013
In Towards Collective Liberation, Chris Crass draws organizing and movement-building lessons from his experience with Food Not Bombs.
Against the Grain – September 9, 2013
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?
Against the Grain – September 4, 2013
As Stephen Germic points out, stories of nationhood propagated at national memorials and parks leave out the claims of American Indians to territory and recognition.
Against the Grain – September 2, 2013
Sarah Swider describes what’s happening to millions of Chinese peasants who migrate to urban centers to do precarious work in China’s construction industry. She also considers what the growing concentration of Chinese migrant workers in cities might mean for working-class politics and solidarity.