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.
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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 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.
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 – 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.