Against the Grain – April 23, 2012
Nancy Cohen, author of Delirium, argues that the backlash to the sexual revolution has fueled American politics for over three decades.
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 – April 18, 2012
The lives of recent immigrants, notes UC Berkeley’s Leti Volpp, are often framed as a battle between “tradition” and “modernity.” But blaming, for example, interpersonal violence in immigrant communities on regressive non-Western cultures is deeply problematic.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – April 17, 2012
Translator and biographer Richard Greeman talks about the writer and revolutionary Victor Serge–from his anarchist youth in France, his involvement with the Bolshevik Revolution, his imprisonment in Stalin’s gulag, and his dissident Marxism in the darkest days of the 20th century.
Against the Grain – April 16, 2012
Notre Dame economist David Ruccio shares his perspective on the economic crisis, income inequalities, corporate taxation, the focus on deficits, austerity in Greece, and more.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – April 11, 2012
John Marsh, author of “Class Dismissed,” discusses with Sasha Lilley why — contrary to conventional wisdom — lack of education is not the cause of poverty and economic inequality.
Against the Grain – April 10, 2012
Amiri Baraka and Bill Fletcher, Jr., offer conflicting perspectives on Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X. Also, Patrick Dooley discusses a Tom Stoppard play about radical thinkers in 19th-century Russia.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – April 9, 2012
Alondra Nelson, author of “Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination,” talks to Sasha Lilley about the little known history of the Black Panther’s medical activism, from setting up free clinics to genetic screening for sickle cell anemia.
Against the Grain – April 4, 2012
Selma James argues that unwaged work is indispensable to capitalist production; she also discusses the relationship of gender to class.
Against the Grain – April 3, 2012
Acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich, who died last week, discusses her childhood, poetry, race, and sexuality in this interview from 1983.
Against the Grain – April 2, 2012
The social historian Peter Linebaugh talks about the machine-breaking Luddites, the fencing off of the commons, and the radical message of Magna Carta.