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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – October 12, 2011
Corey Robin, author of “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin,” speaks with Sasha Lilley about the intellectual underpinnings of the Right.
Against the Grain – October 11, 2011
In a new documentary film, Noam Chomsky holds forth on conformity and social control; Mark Mirabello discusses the history of money; Ramsey Kanaan talks about anarchism; and AtG’s own Sasha Lilley stresses collective action.
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 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.