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 – 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.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – January 24, 2012
Social movements scholar and activist Barbara Epstein talks about the non-violent direct action movements of the 1970s and 80s, such at the Clamshell Alliance and the Livermore Action Group, that prefigured the egalitarian, consensus-based politics of the Occupy movement.
Against the Grain – January 23, 2012
According to Max Haiven, global capitalism turns cooperative and creative activity into calcified narratives, hierarchies, and commodities. Haiven emphasizes the importance of a task he calls “commoning memory.”
Against the Grain – January 18, 2012
Media critic Robert McChesney describes what capitalist interests have done to the non-commercial promise of the internet.
Against the Grain – January 17, 2012
UC Santa Cruz professor Julie Guthman offers a pointed critique of the alternative food movement in her new book “Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism.”
Against the Grain – January 16, 2012
George Yancy discusses his book “Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race.”