Against the Grain
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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – August 17, 2011
Corey Robin, author of “Fear: The History of a Political Idea,” talks with Sasha Lilley about the ways that fear has been conceived by modern thinkers and the political uses to which it is put.
Against the Grain – August 16, 2011
Murali Balaji, author of “The Professor and the Pupil”, talks about the friendship and political evolution of radical African American giants W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson.
Against the Grain – August 15, 2011
Journalist Tina Gerhardt speaks with Sasha Lilley about nuclear power after Fukushima, in light of the decisions by Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, and potentially Japan, to phase it out.
Against the Grain – August 8, 2011
Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan
Against the Grain – August 1, 2011
Social historian Iain Boal discusses the scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and the role he has played in suppporting the neoliberal transformation of the UK, first under Margaret Thatcher, then Labour’s Tony Blair, and now under David Cameron. With host Sasha Lilley.