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.
Economic geographer Richard Walker speaks with Sasha Lilley about the role California has played as the epicenter of the economic crisis–from the housing bubble to manufacturing to its state’s fiscal woes.
Adam Hochschild talks about his now-classic book “King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.” (First-time presentation of the full-length interview.)
Graphic novelist Eric Drooker speaks to Sasha Lilley about Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, written in 1955, which was branded obscene at the time, and why the poem still reverberates strongly today.
U.C. Davis historian Alan Taylor describes Thomas Paine’s political beliefs and discusses Paine’s influential pamphlet “Common Sense.”
Tristram Stuart, author of “Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal,” talks to Sasha Lilley about the the massive amount of food — up to 50% in the US — which is thrown away by manufacturers, farmers, supermarkets, and consumers.
Rinne Groff’s play “Compulsion” is based on the true story of Meyer Levin’s long-term obsession with Anne Frank and her diary. And Renata Zerner has written a memoir about her teenage years in Nazi Germany.
Renowned Marxist geographer David Harvey talks to Sasha Lilley about how capitalism functions–in sickness and in health–and how best to understand the current crisis.
Mainstream theories of justice, argues the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in his book “The Idea of Justice,” have led us astray by emphasizing the search for the perfectly just society.
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.
