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.
A landmark climate change conference will convene in Denmark in December. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben describes the enormity of what's at stake, and how pressure on policymakers can best be exerted.
U.C. Santa Barbara sociologist Avery Gordon discusses the value of utopianism to leftist projects.
U.C. Santa Cruz professor Dana Frank comments on the recent coup in Honduras and its aftermath, and also talks about her book "Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments."
Susan Crate and Kate Watters have written about several environmental justice struggles in the new volume "Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union."
In Arthur Miller's classic play "Death of a Salesman," Richard Lichtman sees a number of Marxist and psychoanalytic themes illustrated and illuminated.
Philosopher and author George Caffentzis critiques Peak Oil and describes how Enclosures continue to devastate workers around the globe.
A conversation about the history of the environmental movement in the Bay Area with Richard Walker and host Sasha Lilley.
Andrej Grubacic talks about historical intersections of anarchism and Marxism and why a synthesis would benefit the Left.
Raewyn Connell discusses the role that males could and should play in efforts to achieve gender equality, and identifies what militates against men and boys making wider commitments to gender reform.
Ian Illuminato describes the threats that nanotechnology poses to people and the environment. And Mark Schapiro contrasts the European Union's regulation of toxic chemicals in everyday products with the US approach.
