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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's works of fiction, and the social and political ideas that animate them, are discussed by Liza Knapp and Robin Feuer Miller. Marilyn Campbell has co-adapted Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" for the stage.
Nato Thompson talks about his new book "Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism." And Debra Lynn Bassett talks about how and why rural lives and conditions tend to get ignored by policymakers.
In her new book "Screening Sex," U.C. Berkeley professor Linda Williams describes how and why the depiction of sexual themes and activities in American films has changed and developed over time.
In his new book "The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism," David Theo Goldberg examines how race is mobilized politically and how racism operates in today's world.
Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander's new book is "The Superferry Chronicles: Hawaii's Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism and the Desecration of the Earth."
Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello discuss the nature of the ongoing economic crisis, the solution-generating potential of people's movements, and the status of labor in China.
Rory Cox talks about the perils of importing liquefied natural gas into California. And Lester Rowntree explains how global warming is affecting, and will affect, the Bay Area.
In this first-time airing of C.S. Soong's full-length interview with William Irvine, the Wright State philosophy professor talks about his book "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy."
Gretchen Gordon describes Bolivian peoples' resistance to efforts by foreign energy companies, often abetted by Bolivian governments, to control that nation's oil and natural gas resources. And George Packer's play "Betrayed" portrays the plight of three Iraqis who accept jobs with the US occupiers.
