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
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 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.
Against the Grain – January 18, 2010 at 12:00pm
t was a cataclysmic event, the first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas. In 1791 brutally exploited slaves on a small Caribbean island rose up and eventually won emancipation. Their story, a legacy that has inspired and instructed people and nations for centuries, is told in Laurent Dubois’s Avengers of the New World.
Against the Grain – January 12, 2010
David Austin, editor of “You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James”, talks with host Sasha Lilley about the ideas and life of the Trinidadian historian, Marxist, playwright, cultural critic, and activist CLR James.