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.
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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.
Award-winning Guardian reporter Jonathan Steele, author of “Ghosts of Afghanistan,” speaks to Sasha Lilley about Afghanistan, ten years after the US invasion.
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.
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.
Timothy Brennan, author of “Secular Devotion,” talks about the politics of Neo-African music with Sasha Lilley.
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.
Andrew Laties, author of “Rebel Bookseller,” talks about the life and death of the independent bookstore.
The eminent radical historian and sociologist Robin Blackburn discusses his new book “An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln.”
Economic anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber speaks with Sasha Lilley about the politics of debt and how it conceals our social relations with each other.
Jeff Conant dissects a highly touted policy that purports to address climate change by incentivizing the maintenance and protection of forests in the Global South.
Richard Wolin, author of “The Wind from the East,” speaks to Sasha Lilley about the rise of Maoism following the upheavals of 1968 in France and its impact on the thinking of intellectuals like Sartre and Foucault.