Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – October 20, 2010
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.
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 – October 19, 2010
U.C. Davis historian Alan Taylor describes Thomas Paine’s political beliefs and discusses Paine’s influential pamphlet “Common Sense.”
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – October 18, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – October 13, 2010
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.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – October 12, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – October 11, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – October 6, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – October 4, 2010
Social theorist Richard Lichtman brings up Marx and Freud in a discussion of what happens to human beliefs, desires, values, and intentions under capitalism.
Against the Grain – September 29, 2010 at 12:00pm
Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow have produced a film called Dirt!