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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.
Mark Sawyer examines factors that inhibit Latino-Black collaboration, including anti-Black racism among many Latinos, African American parochialism, and narrow visions of racial/ethnic identity. He also identifies points of commonality and convergence.
As part of its effort to build a socialist society, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) has worked to transform education, drawing on the ideas and inspiration of Paulo Freire and of several Soviet-era educational theorists. Rebecca Tarlau explains.
What can environmentalism do? Andrew Ross, Mark Engler, and Charles Callaway addressed this ever more urgent question at Left Forum.
Philosopher of science Sandra Harding calls into question Western exceptionalism and triumphalism in the areas of science and technology.
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.
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.
Zeynep Gambetti shares her insights into the meaning and impact of anti-government protests in dozens of Turkish cities and towns with Charlotte Sáenz.
In A People’s History of Baseball, Mitchell Nathanson traces the impact of class and racial dynamics on baseball’s origins and development.
Richard Lichtman converses with Terry Kupers about the incarceration boom’s social, political, and psychological context.
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.
