Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – July 23, 2012
A tribute to Alexander Cockburn, the muckraking radical journalist, who died on Saturday.
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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – July 18, 2012
Jessica Henry protests the “unjustified and almost commonplace imposition” of life-without-parole sentences. Also, Part Two of an interview with Tony Platt about efforts to repatriate Native American remains that were dug up and collected for almost two centuries. (Part One aired on July 10.)
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – July 17, 2012
A look at the politics of rioting through the lens of the urban unrest that took place last summer in the UK, with Roger Wilson of the Bristol Radical History Group.
Against the Grain – July 16, 2012
Uranium fuels nuclear weapons and controversial power plants. But uranium mineworkers labor in obscurity — and in exceptionally dangerous settings. Gabrielle Hecht has gone to Africa to investigate.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – July 11, 2012
Biological anthropologist Agustín Fuentes explores myths about evolution and genetics that lead some to conclude erroneously that races exist, that we are monogamous as a species, and that humans — especially men — are inherently aggressive.
Against the Grain – July 10, 2012
Tony Platt recounts the shocking history of the looting and collecting of Native American remains, and James Miller discusses the infamous case of the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – July 9, 2012
Danny Dorling, author of the No-Nonsense Guide to Equality,” enumerates the beneficial effects that redound to more equal societies, from education to low crime rates.
Against the Grain – July 4, 2012
James Cockcroft’s book “Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now” begins with the Revolution of 1910-1917 and culminates in a discussion of current-day struggles, both in Mexico and among immigrants in the US.
Against the Grain – July 3, 2012
As part of its effort to build a socialist society, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) has worked to transform education, drawing on the ideas and inspiration of Paulo Freire and several Soviet educational theorists. Rebecca Tarlau explains.
Against the Grain – July 2, 2012
Does the internet diminish our ability to think deeply? Nicholas Carr argues just that in “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.”