Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – February 21, 2012
David Graeber, anarchist anthropologist and an instigator of the Occupy movement, recently spoke in San Francisco for well over two hours about 5000 years of debt. We feature highlights.

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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.
David Graeber, anarchist anthropologist and an instigator of the Occupy movement, recently spoke in San Francisco for well over two hours about 5000 years of debt. We feature highlights.
Radical scholar Mike Davis assesses the global array of forces at this conjuncture — incomplete revolution in Egypt, Occupy movements at a crossroads, class struggle in China, and economic chaos in Europe.
Gabor Mate talks about how capitalism is bad for one’s mental and physical health.
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.