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 – August 3, 2010
Richard Lichtman, the author of The Production of Desire, talks about a synthesis of psychoanalysis and Marxism.
Against the Grain – August 2, 2010
Acclaimed radical public intellectual Tariq Ali talks about idea of communism and its legacy today as capitalism melts down.
Against the Grain – July 28, 2010
Social critic and veteran educator Henry Giroux connects the history and ideology of neoliberal policies to the education of young people and the prospects for building a real democracy.
Against the Grain – July 27, 2010
An April 18 talk by Henry Giroux called “Shattered Bonds: Youth in a Suspect Society and the Politics of Disposability.” Ideas in-depth with C.S. Soong and Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – July 26, 2010
U.C. Santa Cruz scientist Gary Griggs has studied and written about one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world — California’s. His new book is “Introduction to California’s Beaches and Coast.”
Against the Grain – July 21, 2010
Thomas Wheatland’s book “The Frankfurt School in Exile” examines the interactions between the Frankfurt School, a dynamic grouping of radical German scholars, and the thinkers they encountered in the US.
Against the Grain – July 20, 2010
What are you looking at? The Spanish artist Juan Munoz called that his first artistic question. Art critic Michael Brenson has been thinking about that question for over a decade; it’s changed the way he looks at, and thinks about, art.
Against the Grain – July 19, 2010
Nancy Scheper-Hughes comments on the culture of fear around death and dying in the US, and puts it into historical and cultural context.
Against the Grain – July 14, 2010
In his book “Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability,” Dr. Debal Deb challenges mainstream ideas about economic growth and industrial development, and proposes sustainable alternatives.