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.
Left-wing historian James Livingston suggests — taking on the nineteenth-century Populists, the Frankfurt School, and current economic orthodoxy along the way — that consumption is good for social justice and the environment.
Adam Reich discusses the 9 year struggle to unionize a Santa Rosa hospital run by one of the most progressive orders of nuns in the country — which fought tooth and nail to keep the union out.
A discussion of the legendary San Francisco radical performance and art space, Komotion, with Robin Ballinger and Mat Callahan.
Dean Baker discusses stimulus measures and “the need to get the dollar down”; Richard Wolff talks about the pattern of bailouts, government borrowing, deficits, and austerity.
The social critic and philosopher Richard Lichtman gave a presentation last Friday entitled “Cry the Corrupted Country: Reflections on the Psychopathology of Capitalism.”
In a recent public presentation, Richard Lichtman spoke about the rise of corporations, ruling-class ideology, and the incompatibility between capitalism and democracy.
