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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Influential theorist Immanuel Wallerstein talks about the trajectory of US hegemony and of the global economy; the deal cut by the superpowers during the Cold War; the rise of “the forgotten peoples,” and much more.
Social theorist Richard Lichtman brings up Marx and Freud in a discussion of what happens to human beliefs, desires, values, and intentions under capitalism.
Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow have produced a film called Dirt!
Adam Hochschild talks about his award-winning book “King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.”
Oliver Stone’s new film “South of the Border” examines the rise of leftist governments in Latin America, from Venezuela to Bolivia to Argentina and Paraguay.
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about the origins of the housing crisis and how to address it.
Filmmaker James Davis talks about his documentary “Meeting Room,” which tells the story of a grassroots social movement called Concerned Parents Against Drugs, which drove out heroin dealers from the poorest neighborhoods in Dublin in the 1980s, against a backdrop of social unrest and IRA militancy.
Political economist and historian Jason W. Moore puts the crises of the environment and the economy into historical perspective. With host Sasha Lilley.
