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
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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.
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.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 4, 2012
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.
Against the Grain – August 29, 2012
Selma James argues that unwaged work is indispensable to capitalist production; she also discusses the relationship of gender to class.