Against the Grain – December 28, 2010
Bob Torres talks about his book “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights.”
12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays to 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.
Bob Torres talks about his book “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights.”
U.C. Berkeley political scientist Kiren Chaudhry discusses what she calls the “economic underbelly” of the Af-Pak war and the chaotic nature of the US military effort there.
What’s a world to do about climate change? Patrick Bond and Joseph Romm have very different perspectives; they talk with guest host Brian Edwards-Tiekert.
Alfred McCoy discusses the origins and historical trajectory of the US security and surveillance state. He notes that surveillance methods introduced and refined by the US imperial project in the Philippines were brought back to these shores, with profound consequences for civil liberties.
Joseph Levine grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household and later became an atheist. His essay about that journey appears in the volume “Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life.”
In a program highlighting some of the best interviews from Against the Grain, we feature Howard Zinn on building a new world within the shell of the old, Laura Kipnis on the problems with coupledom, and Raj Patel on whether we’re really all rational maximizers.
Michael Pollan’s bestselling book “The Botany of Desire” has been turned into a fascinating two-hour documentary film.
Renowned Marxist geographer David Harvey talks to Sasha Lilley about how capitalism functions–in sickness and in health–and how best to understand the current crisis.
Native American historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaks with Sasha Lilley about the Green Corn Rebellion–a short-lived insurrection of white, black, and red workers in Oklahoma in 1917–and the struggles of Native Americans in the 1970s.
Why is it that some places are poor and some are rich? Sasha Lilley talks to pioneering radical geographer Neil Smith about capitalism and uneven development.