KPFA - Against the Grain

Progressive Talk

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.

Episodes

Deferring to Computers

Why Trans Misogyny?

Rethinking Capitalism

Against the Attention Economy

Texas: Vanguard of the Far Right

The Anti-Defamation League and the Left

AI, the Media, and the Billionaire Class

Fighting Surveillance

Triumph of the Yuppie

Sex and Strength

The Long History of Controlling Workers

How the GOP Lurched Further to the Right

Changing Sound

Capitalism and Insect-Borne Diseases

Fund Drive Special: Artificial Intelligence, the Media, and the Billionaire Class

Against the Grain – May 19, 2026

Against the Grain – May 18, 2026

Fund Drive Special: Fossil Capitalism and Trees

Fund Drive Special: What the Frankfurt School Teaches Us About the Right

Fund Drive Special: Back to the Gilded Age