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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Good News for Bad Times: Gospel from Boston
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In transition time, pre-inauguration, was there ever a clearer cue for Gospel music?

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Sylvio Berlusconi: The Godfather of Trumpismo
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The parallels between Donald Trump and former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi are as striking as they are frightening.

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Obama Years
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Re-reading Obama with Marilynne Robinson and David Bromwich.

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Just Say No!
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Millions of people have demonstrated outlines of a global, feminist, anti-racist, anti-Trump resistance.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Debating Trump: Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Two political players from outside Establishment lines help us watch the game unfolding so far in the Trump White House.

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Going Nativist
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The battle over the travel ban echoes our history from the founding.

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
The Fog of Trump
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The darkest truth about the squalling Trump administration is that nobody knows what’s happening.

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Baldwin in the 21st Century
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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His words have become rallying cries for a rising generation.

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  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
'Deportation Nation'
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Immigration under the new "ICE age."

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
American Vertigo
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It wasn’t a war of ideas that produced Donald Trump, but his election surprise has produced a war of ideas to define Trumpism.

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Welcome to Our Neoliberal World
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon interviews a cast of public thinkers on their definition of a world commonly used on Open Source: neoliberalism.

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
The American Experiment
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon interviews professors Roberto Unger and Cornel West regarding the current American condition on this episode of Open Source.

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Russian Riddle
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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For many Americans, Russia once more is the name of the riddle: a mystery wrapped in an enigma that may or may not be deciphered in an FBI investig...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
American (De)generations
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This week on Open Source, Christopher Lydon and others ask: Is American history a cyclical thing; a series of concentric circles endlessly repeating?

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Great American Medicine Show
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Barack out of the White House, Obamacare now looks something like a 7-year-old orphan: the unwanted child of yesterday’s Washington; a needy p...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Robert Lowell and the Poetry of a Suffering Mind
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Robert Lowell was the last of his kind: a New England aristocrat of Olympian thunder and civic weight, dead-set from boyhood on artistic greatness,...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Building the People’s Party
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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100 days of Donald Trump in the White House, 100 days of Democrats in the wilderness, 100 dumbfounded days of dismay at the New York Times, 100 day...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The ‘Pivot to Asia’ Continued
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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On the threshold of trouble in Asia, have a look around the Western Pacific and especially back at US history there.

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  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
JFK Turns 100
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In John F. Kennedy’s hundredth birthday spring, we’re looking at a number of portraits of the president, including the painter Jamie Wyeth's famous...

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  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Lessons from Nixonland
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Welcome back to Nixonland: After four decades, the Oval Office is once again the seat of empire, occupied by a paranoid pilot hellbent on an unremi...

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  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9

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