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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The Fog of Trump
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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
Going Nativist
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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
Debating Trump: Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader
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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
Just Say No!
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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
The Obama Years
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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
Sylvio Berlusconi: The Godfather of Trumpismo
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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
Good News for Bad Times: Gospel from Boston
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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
Post-Democracy in America
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How will American democracy survive the election of Donald Trump?

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Bob Dylan, The Poet
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Bob Dylan has been singing more than 50 years. But have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
Trump in the World
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're searching for The Donald Doctrine.

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3
Swingin' With Zadie Smith
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The acclaimed author of 'White Teeth' and now 'Swing Time' speaks about dance, identity, and class.

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Normalize This!
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We face the Trump reality, with rockstar economist Yanis Varoufakis and others.

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Seeing Red in Trump's America
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Trump's election marks an earthquake in American politics—one that the seismic monitors of Big Media failed to predict.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 1
Class Conflict
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Do we need to limit the growth of new charter schools, whose growth may spell a decline in the public system?

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
'The Great Derangement'
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The novelist Amitav Ghosh says our inability to grasp the scale of climate change is a failure of imagination.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
American Wreckage
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Even if Trump loses, he will continue to be an imminent danger (conveniently, for some in the Establishment) to democracy.

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Locker-Room Election
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Eileen Myles, Moira Weigel, and others unpack the gender politics of 2016.

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Cyber
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Stuxnet virus, “the Stradivarius of malware,” has ushered in a whole new world.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 2
'Secular Rapture': Trump and the American Dispossessed
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This hour, three scenes from a divided country: the oil patches of Louisiana, the Rustbelt of southwestern Michigan, and a steel town in Ohio.

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
What Would Keynes Do?
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Mark Blyth makes the case: the government still has a stimulating role to play in the American economy.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1

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