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Against the Grain - June 26, 2013 at 12:00pm
Terry Kupers and Richard Lichtman on what prisons say about us

Against the Grain - June 25, 2013 at 12:00pm
Speakers at a Left Forum panel on Occupy and the future of the Left included Frances Fox Piven and Bhaskar Sunkara

Against the Grain - June 24, 2013 at 12:00pm
Waldo Martin on the new book “Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party”

Against the Grain - June 19, 2013 at 12:00pm
Joel Kovel, Terisa Turner, Tadzio Müller, and Kanya D'Almeida spoke at this year's Left Forum gathering in New York City

Against the Grain - June 18, 2013 at 12:00pm
Timothy Morton on "nature," the Gaia hypothesis, and ecological thinking

Against the Grain - June 17, 2013 at 12:00pm
Clairmont Chung on the radical historian-activist Walter Rodney

Against the Grain - June 12, 2013 at 12:00pm
Stuart Newman on GM humans and the new eugenics

Against the Grain - June 11, 2013 at 12:00pm
George Packer's new book surveys the damage done to this nation's social fabric over the past 35 years

Against the Grain - June 10, 2013 at 12:00pm
Alfie Kohn on why tests, grades, and other features of conventional education don't serve true learning

Against the Grain - June 5, 2013 at 12:00pm
Peter Linebaugh on the fencing off of the commons and the radical message of Magna Carta

Against the Grain - June 4, 2013 at 12:00pm
David Hawkes on the symbolic power of money and the ethics of lending and finance

Against the Grain - June 3, 2013 at 12:00pm
An interview with legendary writer and critic Eduardo Galeano

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