Against the Grain – October 13, 2009
A first-time presentation of the full-length interview with Andrew Pessin, author of "The God Question: What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the Divine."
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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Wealth Creators or Wealth Extractors?
Are the rich wealth creators, as we commonly hear? Should we be grateful to investors and entrepreneurs, as they like to be called, for generating jobs and greasing the wheels of the economy? Or is the source of their massive wealth the rest of us? Scholar Andrew Sayer discusses rentiers, capitalists, and why the planet … Continued
Against the Grain – September 23, 2009
Andrew Pessin talks about his new book "The God Question: What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the Divine."
Against the Grain – September 22, 2009
The documentary 'The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom' looks at the intellectual roots of the ideology of the free market.
Against the Grain – September 16, 2009
In the documentary series "The Genius of Charles Darwin" evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins examines Darwin's life and why his ideas are still subversive, 150 years after the publication of "On the Origin of Species".