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.
Steven Pitts discusses the causes and contours of an ongoing jobs crisis among African Americans. And Arnoldo Garcia describes the repression of immigrant workers and its relationship to immigrant rights activism.
Philosopher, cultural critic, and provocateur Slavoj Zizek discusses various kinds of visible and invisible violence, drawing connections to ideology, language, and capitalism.
Leo Tolstoy was much more than a novelist. He also spoke out against war, patriotism, laws, economic exploitation, and state authority. His Christian anarchist views are described by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos.
Jeffrey St. Clair will discuss environmental politics and his new book "Born Under a Bad Sky." He will also describe grassroots resistance in the American heartland with Joshua Frank, co-editor of the just-released "Red State Rebels."
In addressing the question of whether fascism has arrived in the US, Jonathan Scott looks at the long history of white supremacism and the class collaboration between white workers and their bosses.
There is no stable working class under capitalism, contends Yale scholar Michael Denning. He looks at how global labor has been represented, and emphasizes the importance of wageless people to the project of resisting neoliberal globalization.
Guest host Ramsey Kanaan speaks with Joel Shalit and Craig O’Hara about the politics of punk and commercial success.
Barbara Epstein, author of "The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism", talks with host Ramsey Kanaan about the unusual story of cooperation between Jews and non-Jews in Belorussia under Nazi occupation.
Mark Steel, author of "Vive La Revolution! A Stand-up History of the French Revolution", talks to host Ramsey Kanaan about the enduring legacy of that watershed rebellion.
Frida Kahlo biographer Hayden Herrera, who guest-curated the Kahlo exhibition now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Alison Gass, SFMOMA curator, discuss Kahlo’s life, work, politics, and legacy.
