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 – September 19, 2012
Bill Deresiewicz describes the crisis in higher education and the immiseration of academic labor; he also evaluates calls for the abolition of tenure and for technology- and market-based reforms.
Against the Grain – September 17, 2012
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 – September 11, 2012
Finance capitalism, which Richard Peet claims defines and dominates the current political-economic era, differs from the industrial capitalism that preceded it in important respects.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 10, 2012
Charles Post discusses the origins of capitalism in the United States.
Against the Grain – September 5, 2012
Oscar Wilde engaged and grappled with ideas about art, ethics, aesthetics, and sexuality. Nicholas Frankel has produced the first uncensored edition of Wilde’s only novel.