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
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 – 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.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – July 27, 2011
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.
Against the Grain – July 26, 2011
Bill Deresiewicz describes the crisis in higher education and the immiseration of academic labor; he also evaluates calls for the abolition of tenure and for technology- and market-based reforms.