Against the Grain – January 5, 2005
Francis Wheen talks about his new book Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense.
Against the Grain
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.
Against the Grain – January 4, 2005
Looking Back, and Forward What can the Left learn from 2004? Where might progressives and radicals go from here? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Cynthia Kaufman and David Ruccio evaluate developments of the past year and discuss the prospects for a more imaginative, coherent and effective coalition on the Left.
Against the Grain – January 3, 2005
Cheating and Competing Cheating in school, doping in sports — everyone, it seems, wants to get a leg up on the competition. Evan Watkins sees cheating as a symptom of something bigger: the nature of competition today. He sees collective and cooperative efforts and impulses within what others consider a monolithic political-economic system. (Encore presentation.)
Against the Grain – December 29, 2004
Sociologist Vivek Chibber talks about whether the left should back "national capitalist development" in the global South as an alternative to the model of neoliberal globalization, with host Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – December 28, 2004
Chris Rhomberg, author of No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland, discusses the histories of urban social movements in Oakland, from the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, to the Oakland General Strike of 1946 and the struggle for civil rights and the rise of the Black Panthers in the 1960s. With … Continued
Against the Grain – December 27, 2004
John Sanbonmatsu talks about the controversial theories of postmodernism and poststructuralism, associated with the likes of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan, and their impact on left strategy. With host Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – December 22, 2004
Jonathan Nitzan, author of The Global Political Economy of Israel, discusses how to understand imperialism in our time, with host Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – December 21, 2004
Ursula Huws, author of The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual World in a Real World, discusses the relationship between technology, gender and labor under capitalism with host Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – December 20, 2004
A conversation about agrarian capitalism in the Golden State with geographer Richard Walker, author of The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California. With guest host Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – December 15, 2004
At least some people on the Left are moving to Canada. Others are thinking about seceding from the Union. Organizers of two such efforts, Second Vermont Republic and Move On California, discuss what they’re pushing for and why. C.S. also hosts a conversation about the play Take Me Out, about a baseball star who reveals … Continued