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.
Journalist Kari Lydersen talks to Sasha Lilley about the lessons of the Chicago Republic Windows and Doors factory occupation. And Chris Spannos discusses the IMF/ European Union bailout of Greece on the eve of a general strike.
Are short sales a good idea? Many homeowners, says Bill Purdy, are being misinformed or misled. Also, Peter Edelman highlights the unavailability and inadequacy of badly-needed welfare assistance.
Sasha Lilley talks to Alissa Katz about how mortgage lenders saw poor, inner city residents as the next frontier in profit-making – and how the idea of owning one’s own house has been actively fostered by a government wanting to abandon public housing.
Race relations, class conflict, the immigrant experience, and many other facets of Australian life are explored in a new novel by Christos Tsiolkas. And in the second of a two-part interview, global justice activist Tadzio Mueller takes up the question, What would it mean to win?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
