Against the Grain – May 20, 2008
In the film "The Overspent American," Juliet Schor examines, and suggests alternatives to, the work-and-spend cycle that has so many Americans feeling trapped and unfulfilled.
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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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Against the Grain – May 19, 2008
In a talk entitled "Damaged Care," population health expert Stephen Bezruchka reports that medical care is a leading cause of death. He also asserts that people in the US die much earlier than we should.
Against the Grain – May 14, 2008
The award-winning film "The Corporation" explores the nature, impact, and spectacular rise of one of the most powerful institutions of our time. It features experts like Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, Maude Barlow, and Howard Zinn.
Against the Grain – May 13, 2008
John Yoo, the Boalt Hall law professor who authored memos that provided the basis for the Bush Administration’s torture of prisoners, debated Duke legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky recently at UCLA.
Against the Grain – May 12, 2008
In his book "The Lemon Tree," Sandy Tolan traces the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lives of two people, an Arab who had to leave his home in 1948 and a Jew who grew up in the Arab man’s former house.
Against the Grain – May 7, 2008
In the film "A Really Inconvenient Truth," Joel Kovel argues that we need to go far beyond Al Gore’s reading of the climate change crisis. The author of "The Enemy of Nature," Kovel contends that global warming is directly related to the workings of capitalism.
Against the Grain – May 6, 2008
Veteran political analysts Naomi Klein and Tariq Ali delivered talks about the current economic crisis, Iraq, Latin America, right-wing ideology, and Left resistance at the recent Left Forum gathering in New York City.
Against the Grain – May 5, 2008
According to Colin Duncan, contemporary civilization is about to collapse because of the imminence of rapid and vast climate change. And yet the environmental historian harbors a certain optimism about humans’ ability to usher in radically different ways of meeting human needs.
Against the Grain – April 30, 2008
In her book "Torture and the Twilight of Empire," the sociologist Marnia Lazreg argues that torture is essential to the imperial project, particularly when the empire — like the French in Algeria in the 1950s — is in decline. She also draws parallels to recent and current US military conduct in Iraq.
Against the Grain – April 29, 2008
Immanuel Wallerstein discusses, in this second of a two-part interview, what the USSR’s collapse meant to the US; what kinds of strategies opposition movements might pursue; and why world-systems analysis, which he innovated, has merit. Also, the writer and poet Adam David Miller talks about his memoir "Ticket to Exile."