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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Environmental historian Marco Armiero describes the tumultuous garbage struggles in Italy's polluted Campania region. The struggles, he asserts, are about corporate and state power, environmental justice, and popular resistance.
In their new book "The Spirit Level," Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett contend that one common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality in incomes among their members.
