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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan
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.
Cynthia Enloe and Joni Seager, authors of “The Real State of America Atlas,” talk about U.S. poverty, unemployment, homelessness, sexual violence, and military recruitment, among other topics, seen through a geographic lens.