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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Mark Blyth’s State of the Union
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The people’s economist Mark Blyth is a perpetual fan favorite for Open Source listeners; the Brown University professor, who never left behind his ...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Teachers’ Revolt
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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There’s a quick, strange turn in our weather and it’s not just springtime. Public school classrooms, oddly enough, are the source of the storm wind...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Facebook & the Reign of Surveillance Capitalism
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Three questions they didn’t get Mark Zuckerberg to consider. For openers: that leak of 87 million identities to Cambridge Analytica: was it a bug i...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Trump Doctrine in the Middle East
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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What President Trump said he wanted was to get US firepower out of Syria. “Let the other people take care of it now,” in his words. What he settled...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Secret Life of Trees
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Henry David Thoreau founded our literature of trees, glorying in the Eastern White Pine as the “emblem of my life,” to stand for “the West, the wil...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Marx at 200
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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A specter is haunting human affairs these days: it’s the thought that Karl Marx (on his 200th birthday this week) may have been more right than w...

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  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Trump Goes Rogue In Iran
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Dropping out of the Iran nuclear deal has the feel of dropping into the John Bolton phase of the Trump era. Trump in Full. Trump Extra. The theme ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Split Screen View in Jerusalem and Gaza
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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One split screen wasn’t really enough for the asymmetries we’re looking at now, but there it was: Ivanka unveiling the Trump embassy plaque in Jeru...

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  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Philip Roth
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our long, gabby afternoon with Philip Roth in 2006, at his farmhouse in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut, was a sort of pay-off. I’d helped him find ju...

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  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Studs Terkel’s Feeling Tone
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Studs Terkel edge on the radio was, first of all, picking guests who would sound more interesting 50, 60 years later: Mahalia Jackson, Bucky Fu...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Reporter’s Reporter
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seymour Hersh, known as Sy, made a brilliant career, at his best, of exposing Official US, at its worst: the Army massacre at My Lai, in Vietnam. T...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Two Guys Walk Into a Summit in Singapore
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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From “fire and fury” to a “terrific relationship” in less than a year sound like a happy turn in the Trump-Kim dance around nukes and North Korea. ...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Our Borderline Disorder
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The shock of migrant kids-in-cages on our border with Mexico is surfacing tough questions if you’re willing to look back at our history and ahead t...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Bill Banfield’s Griot Songs
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Your friends and other experts will tell you the songs and sounds that are new and hot. What the music makers are happier telling you is: what’s ol...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:07
  • Purchases: 7
The Grenfell Tragedy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Grenfell Tower was that giant pillar of public housing on the West side of London that went up in flames a year ago. Suddenly it was a smoky chemi...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Siberian Candidate
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Calling on the spies we know best – all of them fictional – to explain the Helsinki summit: If it was spy-craft in plain sight, what would James Bo...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bullsh*t Jobs in Boomtime America
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The jobs are back. It’s the work that feels fishy: so much of it paid but pointless; safe and even secure, but often un-satisfying if you were loo...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Afterlife of Otis Redding
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Otis Redding’s five magnificent years in showbiz transformed the sound of soul music. His grainy, growling, and “squawking” voice kept the music ro...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Soviet Symphonist
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This is a story of where music comes from, what it means, and who owns it.

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
Black Film, White Voice
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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From "Sorry to Bother You" and "Random Acts of Flyness" to "Lemonade," a new wave of black popular culture has arrived.

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9

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