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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
In this first part of a two-part interview, the influential scholar and writer Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the US was the sole global superpower from 1945 to around 1970, after which US hegemony went into decline. He also describes how the 1968 revolutionaries critiqued the Old Left movements that had taken state power, and contends … Continued
Chris Carlsson discusses his new book Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!
