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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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Christina Heatherton and Jordan Camp, coeditors of “Freedom Now: Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in L.A. and Beyond,” discuss the criminalization of the poor though policies like “broken windows” policing.
Selma James argues that unwaged work is indispensable to capitalist production; she also discusses the relationship of gender to class.
A look at the Movement for a New Society, which existed from 1971 to 1988 and pioneered politics that we might recognize as “anarchist” today, with Andy Cornell.
What can we learn from Ralph Waldo Emerson about collectivity and overcoming social divisions? Eric Keenaghan takes on the conventional notion that Emerson pushed a kind of radical individualism.
Andy Cornell, author of “Oppose and Propose,” talks about the Movement for a New Society, which existed from 1971 to 1988 and pioneered politics that we might recognize as “anarchist” today.
Is health promotion a technical or a political issue? Can community health be a vehicle for large-scale social change? Jenna Loyd discusses both theory and practice.
Christopher Turner, author of “Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America,” discusses Wilhelm Reich, who fused Marx and Freud.
Rob Nixon discusses environmental movements of the poor in the Global South.
The second part of an interview with radical philosopher Richard Lichtman on alienation under capitalism. Also, Ellen Cushing describes crowdsourced microtasking, which some are calling the new digital sweatshop.
