Against the Grain – February 9, 2010
Litigator Michelle Alexander talks to Sasha Lilley about her book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”
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 – February 8, 2010
Historian Iain Boal talks about the dangers of being swept into the politics of the abyss when thinking about, and acting against, global warming.
Against the Grain – February 3, 2010
In “Sunlight,” playwright Sharr White presents a John Yoo-like character in a pitched battle with a liberal university president. Also, Andrew Lichterman comments on the prospects for nuclear war in a time of global economic crisis.
Against the Grain – February 2, 2010
Ellen Leopold, author of “Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War,” talks to Sasha Lilley about cancer, radiation, and militarism.
Against the Grain – February 1, 2010
In his book “Born to Be Good,” UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner argues that goodness is wired into our nervous sytems and encoded in our genes.
Against the Grain – Nancy Fraser talks to Sasha Lilley about Feminism and Neoliberalism
Noted feminist critic Nancy Fraser talks with Sasha Lilley about how feminism may have inadvertently fueled the free market form of capitalism known as neoliberalism.
Against the Grain – January 25, 2010
Foreign policy analyst Conn Hallinan sheds some light on the recent focus on Yemen and what it might tell us about US geopolitical intentions in East and South Asia. And Elizabeth Kneebone, the co-author of a new report, talks about how American suburbs have become home to the largest population of poor people in the … Continued
Against the Grain – January 20, 2010
Alexander Poster talks about the history of US disaster relief, from the Reagan era to the present, as a means of economic and political influence. With host Sasha Lilley.