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 – January 12, 2011
Keramet Reiter calls supermax prisons “the black hole” in this nation’s system of prisons and punishment: So little is known about them, and yet supermax confinement is the most extreme form of punishment next to the death penalty.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – January 11, 2011
Christina Kiaer, author of “Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism,” speaks with Sasha Lilley about the attempt to rethink the objects of daily life in a post-capitalist society by the avant-garde in the early Soviet Union.
Against the Grain – January 10, 2011
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.
Against the Grain – January 5, 2011
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.
Against the Grain – January 4, 2011
In her new book “Black and Green,” Kiran Asher challenges conventional notions of how capitalist development and grassroots resistance operate in the Global South.
Against the Grain – January 3, 2011
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.
Against the Grain – December 29, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – December 28, 2010
Bob Torres talks about his book “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights.”
Against the Grain – December 27, 2010
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.