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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Stiglitz on the Iraq Occupation Nobel laureate and former chief economist for the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, talks about the costs of the invasion of Iraq and the gloomy prospects for the US economy with journalist Doug Henwood.
Sabu Kohso of the group No! G8 Action describes Left movements and workers’ struggles in Japan over the years. And Robert Weil talks about worker resistance in the sprawling factories of Shenzhen, China.
Sociologist Michael Schwartz describes the current catastrophic situation in Iraq and offers an historical and strategic analysis of the US-led war and occupation. And journalist Arun Gupta discusses the specific ways in which the war has been about oil.
Russell Banks’s new novel “The Reserve,” about class relations, love, and deception, is set in the Adirondack mountains. And Lenny Kohm describes the impact of mountaintop removal mining on Appalachian ecologies and communities.
The veteran activist and theorist Michael Albert, who co-founded Z Magazine and South End Press, has penned a memoir entitled "Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism."
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 as a boy left his home in 1948 and a Jew who moved into and grew up in the Arab man’s former house.
Anna Stubblefield talks about how the US eugenics movement produced distinctions between "pure" and "tainted" whites, which led to the sterilization of many white women classified as feebleminded. And Heather MacDonald has made a film about anti-gay politics and violence in Oregon in the context of a divisive ballot measure.
Joel Andreas talks about the rebel movement of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and examines the role of charisma in how social movements arise and take action.
