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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
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.
Italian political philosopher Franco “Bifo” Berardi, author of numerous books including “The Uprising,” discusses precarious labor, the destruction caused by finance capitalism, and resistance.
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.)
Anthropologist Agustin Fuentes separates myths from facts about aggression, cooperation, human nature, men and women.
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.
Pavlos Stavropoulos talks about the collapse of the Greek economy and the rise of the fascist party Golden Dawn.
Cynthia Kaufman’s new book “Getting Past Capitalism” examines what capitalism is, how it is reproduced, and how it can be challenged.
Sleep, insomnia, and capitalism with Matthew Wolf-Meyer, author of “The Slumbering Masses.”
Max Haiven talks about the positioning of universities and the role of cognitive labor in the neoliberal capitalist order.
John Arena, author of “Driven from New Orleans,” explains how nonprofits played a key role in the privatization of public housing in New Orleans.
