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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – December 3, 2012
Corey Robin, author of “Fear: The History of a Political Idea,” talks with Sasha Lilley about the ways that fear has been conceived by modern thinkers and the political uses to which it is put.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 28, 2012
Radical scientist Steven Rose on the problems with sociobiology, which suggests that human behavior is primarily rooted in our genes, and Ted Nace on a successful grassroots campaign to shut down coal.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 27, 2012
Alison Hope Alkon, author of “Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy,” takes a hard look at the idea of the “green economy,” and farmers markets with it — contrasting two markets, one in West Oakland and one in North Berkeley.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 26, 2012
Ellen Leopold talks about the ways that radiation therapy was developed by the US government during the Cold War — and how the regulation of our exposure to radiation seems little improved since the mid-20th century.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 21, 2012
Italian political philosopher Franco “Bifo” Berardi, author of numerous books including “The Uprising,” discusses precarious labor, the destruction caused by finance capitalism, and resistance.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 20, 2012
Sarah Schulman, author of “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination,” talks to Sasha Lilley about the political consequences of AIDS, including facilitating massive gentrification. (Encore broadcast.)
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 19, 2012
Anthropologist Agustin Fuentes separates myths from facts about aggression, cooperation, human nature, men and women.
Against the Grain – November 12, 2012
David McNally connects zombie imagery in popular culture to wage labor and manic consumerism; Sasha Lilley describes the contours, and perils, of left-wing catastrophism.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 7, 2012
Pavlos Stavropoulos talks about the collapse of the Greek economy and the rise of the fascist party Golden Dawn.