Against the Grain – May 24, 2004
A conversation with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, about his history of western intervention in the Middle East, Resurrecting Empire.
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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 – May 19, 2004
Neoliberalism has accomplished a shocking upward redistribution of wealth. Lisa Duggan contends that the right, much more than the left, has successfully connected its economic goals with cultural and identity-based politics. If progressives and radicals don’t respond in kind, she argues, a vibrant and truly expansive left will be impossible to construct.
Against the Grain – May 17, 2004
Migrant nannies, housecleaners, and other domestic workers are largely invisible members of the working class worldwide, but play a key role in the global economy. Rhacel Parreñas, Arlie Hochschild, Michele Gamburd and Joy Zarembka illuminate the many reasons why migrant women workers come to the global North to look after other people’s families, while having … Continued
Against the Grain – May 12, 2004
Who would want to forget the largest worldwide protest mobilization ever? Not the creators of the volume 2/15, which records in photos and words the marches and protests on and around February 15, 2003. Three of the creators spoke with C.S.
Against the Grain – May 11, 2004
Pablo Neruda, the most widely-read political poet of our time, would have turned one hundred this year. Mark Eisner, editor of a new collection of Neruda’s poetry, and Neruda scholar Jaime Concha discuss the legendary Chilean’s poetry, politics, and humanity.
Against the Grain – May 10, 2004
Guardian columnist George Monbiot talks about his manifesto for taking on corporate globalization and institutions like the IMF and World Bank.
Against the Grain – May 5, 2004
What’s wrong with the left call to "just do something", regardless of whether much thought has been put into it? Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti talk about what they term "activistism" and anti-intellectualism on the left.
Against the Grain – May 4, 2004
A conversation with Ruth Ozeki, whose latest novel All Over Creation is about genetic engineering, eco-activism, family dynamics, and reckoning with one’s past.
Against the Grain – May 3, 2004
Robert McChesney speaks about the political economy of the media and his new book The Problem of the Media.
Against the Grain – April 27, 2004
It was far from just a chess match. Cold War politics, clashing tempers, and bizarre convictions pervaded the 1972 Fischer-Spassky chess championship match in Iceland. David Edmonds and John Eidinow have written an investigative account of the turbulent showdown in Rejkavik entitled Bobby Fischer Goes to War.