Against the Grain – July 9, 2013
Philosopher of science Sandra Harding calls into question Western exceptionalism and triumphalism in the areas of science and technology.
Against the Grain
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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.
Against the Grain – July 8, 2013
How do we live a good life? What’s worth pursuing, and what should we avoid? Thomas Hurka, a philosopher at the University of Toronto, considers these weighty questions in his book The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters.
Against the Grain – July 3, 2013
Alison Hope Alkon, author of Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy, takes a hard look at the “green economy” and farmers’ markets’ place within it. She contrasts two markets, one in West Oakland and the other in North Berkeley.
Against the Grain – July 2, 2013
Zeynep Gambetti shares her insights into the meaning and impact of anti-government protests in dozens of Turkish cities and towns with Charlotte Sáenz.
Against the Grain – July 1, 2013
In A People’s History of Baseball, Mitchell Nathanson traces the impact of class and racial dynamics on baseball’s origins and development.
Against the Grain – June 26, 2013
Richard Lichtman converses with Terry Kupers about the incarceration boom’s social, political, and psychological context.
Against the Grain – June 25, 2013
At a session of Left Forum 2013 called “Occupy and the Future of the Left,” Joseph Schwartz, Yates McKee, Sarah Leonard, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Frances Fox Piven were the featured speakers.
Against the Grain – June 24, 2013
UC Berkeley historian Waldo Martin has co-authored, with Joshua Bloom, the ambitious new volume Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party.
Against the Grain – June 19, 2013
Joel Kovel, Terisa Turner, Tadzio Müller, and Kanya D’Almeida spoke at Left Forum 2013. Kovel, Turner, and D’Almeida were part of a session called “Ecosocialism: Coming to a Horizon Near You.” Müller was interviewed about the current state of climate justice activism.
Against the Grain – June 18, 2013
Timothy Morton calls into question a host of ideas that undergird ecological thinking, including the taken-for-granted concept of “nature” and the holistic Gaian worldview.