Against the Grain – October 10, 2011
The late Howard Zinn, author of “A People’s History of the United States,” presented an alternative understanding of Christopher Columbus and his legacy.
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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – October 5, 2011
Anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber talks to Sasha Lilley about the Occupy Wall St demonstrations, which he helped organize, and the burgeoning movement sweeping the country.
Against the Grain – October 4, 2011
In their groundbreaking book “The Spirit Level,” Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson show that greater economic equality — not greater wealth — is the mark of the healthiest, happiest societies.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – October 3, 2011
Award-winning Guardian reporter Jonathan Steele, author of “Ghosts of Afghanistan,” speaks to Sasha Lilley about Afghanistan, ten years after the US invasion.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 28, 2011
Jeremy Varon, author of “Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies,” talks about armed struggle coming out of the New Left and its legacy.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 27, 2011
Amy Sonnie and James Tracy reveal the little known story of poor and working class whites who organized themselves to demand social justice and oppose racism in the 1960s and 70s.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 26, 2011
Timothy Brennan, author of “Secular Devotion,” talks about the politics of Neo-African music with Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – September 21, 2011
IT workers in India answer the calls of Western consumers seeking technical support. Radha Hegde examines what the new high-tech work environments are doing to gender relations, class distinctions, and cultural attitudes on the ground.
Against the Grain – September 20, 2011
Andrew Laties, author of “Rebel Bookseller,” talks about the life and death of the independent bookstore.
Against the Grain – September 19, 2011
The eminent radical historian and sociologist Robin Blackburn discusses his new book “An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln.”