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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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof uses the life and times of the Black Puerto Rican activist Arturo Schomburg to examine a host of issues and struggles around race, colonialism, Black-Latino relations, and the writing of history.
A new book by former health insurance executive Wendell Potter blows the whistle on how health insurers spread disinformation, flout regulations, imperil their customers, and skew political debate.
In her new book “Black and Green,” Kiran Asher challenges conventional notions of how capitalist development and grassroots resistance operate in the Global South.
In his book “Why I Am Not a Scientist,” the anthropologist Jonathan Marks confronts “genohype” — the trumpeting of the power of genetics to explain human attributes and behavior.
Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg discuss their book “Righteous Dopefiend,” which both records the experiences of homeless heroin injectors in San Francisco and analyzes the structural forces that shape their lives.
Bob Torres talks about his book “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights.”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
