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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Weimar America
From: Open Source
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
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
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
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
Hacking the Constitution
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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
Sanders, Socialism, and the Youth Vote
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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
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
Black Mountain College: 'The Grass-Roots of Democracy'
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In 1933, a group of freethinking American educators and academics took a look at their fresh, interwar world — and set about trying to remake it.

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


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Empire to Empire: Mary Beard's Rome
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re wondering where we stand now in the endless parade of fragile empires.

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


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
'Star Wars': Our Postmodern Myth
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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What does it mean when a high-capital story survives as a global dream?

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


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Art of Wildness
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re re-imagining an environmental crisis in the wake of the accord in Paris. The economists had their turn. Now we’re asking: What would the arti...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The New Nativism
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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As the nation of immigrants grows bigger, browner and in many ways more inclusive, the part of it that obsesses over the real America never quite g...

Bought by American Voices, WMUU-LP, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
What To Do After Paris?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Amb. Chas Freeman, a freethinking veteran of foreign service, and the French journalist Sylvain Cypel, we’re in the Open Source situation room...

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


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 4
Moneyball for City Hall
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Dan Koh, the new chief of staff to Boston’s mayor, wants city government to work like Brad Pitt’s team in Moneyball. How and for whom are we managi...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
America's First Dance with the Devil
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Led by Stacy Schiff, author of a controversial new thriller-history about witches, we’re looking at the Salem trials again as a whole.

Bought by WLRH, WMUU-LP, WRPI, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
The New New Deal
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The third in our podcast series about work, presented in partnership with The Nation. Big proposals and spiritual realignments for working-class pe...

Bought by KZYX, KPIP-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Life After Incarceration
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We speak to four survivors of mass incarceration.

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Fate of the Union
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Throughout the 20th century, organized labor was a central feature of American life. Our guide, the historian Steve Fraser, asks what happened—betw...

Bought by WUFT, XRAY.fm, KMXT, KZYX, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
Iran: Yea or Nay?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're looking beyond the lobbying, boosterism and the #IranDeal tweet war to ask the weighty one-word question with no easy answer: yea or nay?

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KZYX, WRPI, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
'Oxi' Means 'Maybe'
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Syriza’s turn from defiance to compliance may leave the millions of “no” voters feeling more discouraged than ever before.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1

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