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
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 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.
Against the Grain – December 22, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – December 21, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – December 20, 2010
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.”
Against the Grain – December 15, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – December 14, 2010
Michael Pollan’s bestselling book “The Botany of Desire” has been turned into a fascinating two-hour documentary film.