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 – May 5, 2010
Robert McChesney and John Nichols discuss their new book “The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again.”
Against the Grain – May 4, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – May 3, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – Has home ownership come to own us?
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.
Against the Grain – April 27, 2010
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?
Against the Grain – April 26, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – April 21, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – April 20, 2010
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.
Against the Grain – April 19, 2010
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.