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Against the Grain

Against the Grain

12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays

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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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.

Against the Grain

Against the Grain – April 26, 2010

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Schizophrenia afflicts people at the same rates across ethnicity and race, yet the medical establishment disproportionately diagnoses African American men with it. Sasha Lilley talks to Jonathan Metzl about how, during the turmoil of the civil rights movement, schizophrenia became a black disease.


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Against the Grain – April 21, 2010

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Tadzio Mueller offers an assessment of “green capitalism,” the neoliberal world order’s response to multiple global crises. And Karen Lewis discusses a new production of “John Gabriel Borkman,” Henrik Ibsen’s scorching indictment of nineteenth-century capitalism.


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Against the Grain – April 20, 2010

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Why is it that some places are poor and some are rich? Sasha Lilley talks to pioneering radical geographer Neil Smith about capitalism and uneven development.


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Against the Grain – April 19, 2010

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The emergence or specter of biotechnologies like assisted reproduction and human cloning has raised thorny ethical issues. According to Marcy Darnovsky, progressives and radicals have not always approached these issues carefully and thoughtfully.


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Against the Grain – April 14, 2010 at 12:00pm

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Against the Grain – April 13, 2010

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Gray Brechin contrasts the New Deal’s energetic commitment to education with current efforts to eviscerate public education. And Ross Eisenbrey describes how unpaid interns are used and abused in the private sector.


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Against the Grain – April 12, 2010

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Roberta Brandes Gratz, the author of “The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs,” talks with host Sasha Lilley about the struggle over New York’s future by the father of urban renewal and the renowned urban critic.


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Against the Grain – April 7, 2010

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Mark Vernon discusses his new book “Plato’s Podcasts: The Ancients’ Guide to Modern Living.”


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Against the Grain – April 6, 2010

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In his book “The Idea of Justice,” Nobel laureate Amartya Sen argues that prevailing theories of justice have led us astray.


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Against the Grain – April 5, 2010

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Noam Chomsky, speaking recently at Left Forum, talks about what happens when the center does not hold and the population is mobilized by the Right.


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