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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Revenge of the 90s
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest Maureen Dowd calls 2016 the Seinfeld election: ”It’s really about nothing.”

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


  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Election 2016: Unreality TV
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Ron Suskind is in the studio, asking: How do we talk about political reality from so deep inside the world of the reality show?

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Apocalypse Now?: Part 3
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Where we are today.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMUU-LP, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
Apocalypse Now?: Part 2
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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A remade man.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., XRAY.fm, WLPR , and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Apocalypse Now?: Part 1
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The rise of the machines.

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 9
Yanis Varoufakis's Greek Tragedy
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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An economist argues that the fight for the European project is between the spirit of democracy and the power of wealth.

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3
Greil Marcus: America in Three Songs
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With his new book, Marcus locates a hidden history of America in just three strange songs, all of them worthy of obsession and homage.

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Great British Break-Off
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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 ...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4
Give 'Em Hill?
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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She’s become the default choice—the option that isn’t chaos.

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
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.

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
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?

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Democracy in the Dumps
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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
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
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...

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  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Ireland Rises Again!
From: Open Source
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.

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  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
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
Our Borders, Our Selves
From: Open Source
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
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?

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
John Luther Adams: Music at the End of the World
From: Open Source
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...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
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

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