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Against the Grain

Against the Grain

12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays

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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.

Against the Grain

Against the Grain – December 27, 2010

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U.C. Berkeley political scientist Kiren Chaudhry discusses what she calls the “economic underbelly” of the Af-Pak war and the chaotic nature of the US military effort there.


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Against the Grain – December 22, 2010

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What’s a world to do about climate change? Patrick Bond and Joseph Romm have very different perspectives; they talk with guest host Brian Edwards-Tiekert.


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Against the Grain – December 21, 2010

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Alfred McCoy discusses the origins and historical trajectory of the US security and surveillance state. He notes that surveillance methods introduced and refined by the US imperial project in the Philippines were brought back to these shores, with profound consequences for civil liberties.


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Against the Grain – December 20, 2010

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Joseph Levine grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household and later became an atheist. His essay about that journey appears in the volume “Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life.”


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Against the Grain – December 15, 2010

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In a program highlighting some of the best interviews from Against the Grain, we feature Howard Zinn on building a new world within the shell of the old, Laura Kipnis on the problems with coupledom, and Raj Patel on whether we’re really all rational maximizers.


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Against the Grain – December 14, 2010

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Michael Pollan’s bestselling book “The Botany of Desire” has been turned into a fascinating two-hour documentary film.


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Against the Grain – December 13, 2010

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Renowned Marxist geographer David Harvey talks to Sasha Lilley about how capitalism functions–in sickness and in health–and how best to understand the current crisis.


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Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – December 8, 2010

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Native American historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaks with Sasha Lilley about the Green Corn Rebellion–a short-lived insurrection of white, black, and red workers in Oklahoma in 1917–and the struggles of Native Americans in the 1970s.


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Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – December 7, 2010

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Why is it that some places are poor and some are rich? Sasha Lilley talks to pioneering radical geographer Neil Smith about capitalism and uneven development.


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Against the Grain – December 6, 2010

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Nicky Garratt, self-described skeptic and guitarist for the legendary punk rock band the UK Subs, speaks with guest host Ramsey Kanaan about the rise of punk in the 1970s and whether countercultures like punk have a greater potential for critical and skeptical thinking than the mainstream.


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