Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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An American conversation with global attitude - on the arts, humanities, and global affairs, hosted by Christopher Lydon.

An American conversation with global attitude - on the arts, humanities, and global affairs, hosted by Christopher Lydon

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467 Pieces

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Plot-Twist Politics
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In 2016, the presidential election became electric. Meaning upsets, betrayals, collapses and mis-coronations — all of which works well as pure drama.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sanders, Socialism, and the Youth Vote
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In 2016, is Sanders’ socialism a vulnerability — or a selling point?

Bought by XRAY.fm, KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Hacking the Constitution
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The late justice Antonin Scalia boasted that his United States Constitution was definitively “dead.” But in a mixed-up political season, what if ou...

Bought by WUFT, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WRGY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
Race and the Race for the White House
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Is racial justice on the ballot in 2016?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KTSW 89.9, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
2016: Protest Vote or Cry For Help?
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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What can be made of the “change” votes for Sanders and Trump, if neither of those candidates finds his way to the White House?

Bought by WLPR , KCMJ Community Radio, WRGY, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Donald Trump is Breaking News
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How does a media establishment cover an anti-establishment revolt? Has the frenzy diverted American journalism from its fourth-estate duty: of hold...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUFT, KVSC, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 10
Weimar America
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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A republic is a fragile thing. And Weimar Germany lets you know the great possibilities and terrible perils that await the republic that fails.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRPI, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Syria: The Twenty-First Disaster
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guests, Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami, have just published a new people’s history of the civil war.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, WRPI, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
John Luther Adams: Music at the End of the World
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re getting a broad course in listening here, a sense of how a minimalist composer maxes out on sound, and how we, too, might make the most of th...

Bought by KALW, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Neoliberalism and Postcapitalism
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Can our global system keep going without a reworking for the Internet age?

Bought by WRPI, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Our Borders, Our Selves
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Something new: A radio essay about identity, migration, and the politics of borders.

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Eileen Myles's Moment
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Myles has spent the last forty years as a queer and feminist icon, who’d like to be known not as she or he, but as a complex they, “the gender of E...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WRPI


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3
Ireland Rises Again!
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The history of the 1916 Easter Rising—and of the Irish republic that rose from it—is a mixed bag.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
How Confucius Can Change Your Life
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Confucius raises self-cultivation to the pursuit of a lifetime. Every encounter is a learning experience; every mundane action is a ritual to be pe...

Bought by WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Ferrante Fever
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Beach reading and classic literature intersect in one long literary shocker. We're discussing the “Neapolitan Novels” of Elena Ferrante.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 3
Democracy in the Dumps
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In 2016, are we witnessing too much people power or too little?

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sex and Safety on Campus
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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For decades we’ve worried about an epidemic of sexual assault at American colleges. Have we made real progress toward solving the problem?

Bought by KZYX, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
American Hearts and Minds
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Halftime 2016. We're on the psychiatrist's couch with novelist Marilynne Robinson and others.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Give 'Em Hill?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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She’s become the default choice—the option that isn’t chaos.

Bought by WUFT, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WEZU, KMXT, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Great British Break-Off
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Sparkling London was a spot of deep “Remain” yellow. But it has been indicted by the towns and villages that no longer recognize themselves in the ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4

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