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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468 Pieces

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This is Your Brain on Trump
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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There is no following this story, this confounding condition, this inescapable event called Trump.

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Billy Bragg’s Guide to the Music of Dissent
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Billy Bragg has been the premier troubadour for British radicalism for more than thirty years: a democratic socialist with a guitar and a steadfast...

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


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Coming Crisis in Opioid Nation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Opioid epidemic running rampant this summer has a 30-year back story and a grisly punch-line for 2017: drug deaths this year alone are heading ...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Concord Circle & the Birth of American Philosophy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Henry David Thoreau on his 200th birthday has invited us back to his woodsy, watery old town of Concord, Massachusetts where crystalline American p...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
A Wild & Disobedient Life (Pt. 1 of Thoreau Series Summer 2017)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Henry David Thoreau, on his 200th birthday, is an American immortal who got there the hard way – against the grain of his town and his times.

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Something’s Happening Here
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In the first summer of Trump, 2017, there’s something happening and it feels bigger than the Comey hearings, even Russia-gate. Who knew that a Brit...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Bob Dylan, The Poet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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(Rerun episode from 12/7/16) Bob Dylan, the poet, has been singing more than 50 years, but have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
American Socrates: The Life and Mind of Noam Chomsky
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Noam Chomsky for 50 years has been America’s Socrates, our public pest with questions that sting.

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
'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

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