Against the Grain – June 17, 2013
The radical historian and activist Walter Rodney wrote and spoke about class, race, and revolution. Clairmont Chung discusses Rodney’s life and thought.
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 – June 12, 2013
Biologist Stuart Newman contends that efforts to improve humans via inheritable genetic modification constitute a “new drive toward DNA-based eugenics.”
Against the Grain – June 11, 2013
Through the lens of multiple biographies set over the course of the last 35 years, George Packer examines the failure of US institutions, from politics to business to banking, in his new book “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.”
Against the Grain – June 10, 2013
Testing, grades, homework, learning by rote: these are the foundations of our conventional educational system — and Alfie Kohn argues that they are as good as worthless.
Against the Grain – June 5, 2013
The social historian Peter Linebaugh talks about the machine-breaking Luddites, the fencing off of the commons, and the radical message of Magna Carta.
Against the Grain – June 4, 2013
Money, according to David Hawkes, is a symbol of human labor power. Understanding that symbol, and our belief in it, is key to grasping the ideological underpinnings of two activities that dominate today’s world: lending and finance.
Against the Grain – June 3, 2013
An exclusive interview with celebrated writer and leftist intellectual Eduardo Galeano, whose new book is Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History.
Against the Grain – May 29, 2013
In his books “Animal Rights” and “Animal Studies,” anthrozoologist Paul Waldau looks at animal protection activism and the push for animal rights. (First-time airing of the program-length interview.)
Against the Grain – May 28, 2013
Henri Bergson wondered how we could move from an us-versus-them mentality to what he called the open society. UC Berkeley professor Suzanne Guerlac talks about how she understands and interprets Bergson.
Against the Grain – May 27, 2013
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, author of The Slumbering Masses, discusses sleep and insomnia in the context of capitalism.