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 with Sasha Lilley – February 13, 2012
Radical scholar Mike Davis assesses the global array of forces at this conjuncture — incomplete revolution in Egypt, Occupy movements at a crossroads, class struggle in China, and economic chaos in Europe.
Against the Grain – February 1, 2012
Gabor Mate talks about how capitalism is bad for one’s mental and physical health.
Against the Grain – January 31, 2012
Several highlights from the past year, including Loic Wacquant on the punitive state, Laura Nader on judging foreign cultures, Timothy Morton on ecological thinking, Robin D. G. Kelley on racial politics and anticolonialism, and Lochlann Jain on cancer in US culture.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – January 30, 2012
Leftwing historian James Livingston makes the provocative argument that consumption is good for us.
Against the Grain – January 25, 2012
In his new book “Beyond the Finite,” Iain Boyd Whyte describes how the idea of the sublime has evolved; he also traces its relationship to artistic expression and political strategy.