Against the Grain – December 17, 2012
An hour of rubbish: China Miéville discusses garbage and art; Tristram Stuart talks about food waste.

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.
An hour of rubbish: China Miéville discusses garbage and art; Tristram Stuart talks about food waste.
Corey Robin, author of “Fear: The History of a Political Idea,” talks with Sasha Lilley about the ways that fear has been conceived by modern thinkers and the political uses to which it is put.
Radical scientist Steven Rose on the problems with sociobiology, which suggests that human behavior is primarily rooted in our genes, and Ted Nace on a successful grassroots campaign to shut down coal.
Alison Hope Alkon, author of “Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy,” takes a hard look at the idea of the “green economy,” and farmers markets with it — contrasting two markets, one in West Oakland and one in North Berkeley.
Ellen Leopold talks about the ways that radiation therapy was developed by the US government during the Cold War — and how the regulation of our exposure to radiation seems little improved since the mid-20th century.