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.
Nuclear power plants pose a risk that insurance companies can’t quantify, and won’t insure–so how did we wind up with so many of them? Journalist Stephanie Cooke, who’s covered the nuclear industry for close to 30 years, provides the long view. With guest host Brian Edwards-Tiekert.
Media critic Robert McChesney talks to Sasha Lilley about his article “The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism.”
Gary Rivlin is the author of “Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business.”
Labor journalist and organizer Steve Early talks to Sasha Lilley about rank and file labor struggles in Wisconsin. And he considers the trajectory of Sixties activists in unions, from radicalism to bureaucratism, and the cost of the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan to workers in this country.
Don Lattin, author of “The Harvard Psychedelic Club,” talks about how the lives of Timothy Leary, Huston Smith, Ram Dass, and Andrew Weil intersected in the 1960s. (First-time presentation of the full-length interview.)
Feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham talks to Sasha Lilley about the utopian socialists, free love advocates, birth control campaigners, and trade unionists who transformed the status of women at the turn of the last century.
Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, talks about WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and US law on espionage and conspiracy.
Sasha Lilley discusses her new volume of collected interviews about political economy and left resistance; it’s entitled “Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult.”
Who or what prophesied the end of the world in 2012? Does such a prophecy even exist? John Major Jenkins is the author of “The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History.”
