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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Whitman at War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
The Pope and the Planet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In an encyclical letter, Pope Francis himself will intervene next week on the global story of climate change, bringing scientific and moral authori...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Under The Algerian Sun: Camus and Daoud
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KMUN


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Gunther Schuller, RIP: A Life Inside Music
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Schuller, who died last week at 89, was a prodigious, captivated, sometimes cantankerous prisoner of every kind of modern music: between Beethoven ...

Bought by KMUW and WFMT Station Account


  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Behind The Persian Curtain
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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After two years, three “final” deadlines, and a cabinet-level bike wreck, we have a deal with Iran. It feels like a time to celebrate. This week, w...

Bought by KZYX, WRPI, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Trump This!
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Why is that from the billionaire candidate Donald Trump, wide-open narcissism, sexism, and anti-Mexican racism are accepted, even applauded?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen'
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In the time of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston, the poet Claudia Rankine has been the lyric teller of our deepest hurt.

Bought by WCPN, WLPR , WMUU-LP, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
'Oxi' Means 'Maybe'
From: Open Source
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
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
The Fate of the Union
From: Open Source
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
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 New New Deal
From: Open Source
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
America's First Dance with the Devil
From: Open Source
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
Moneyball for City Hall
From: Open Source
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
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
The New Nativism
From: Open Source
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
The Art of Wildness
From: Open Source
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
'Star Wars': Our Postmodern Myth
From: Open Source
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
Empire to Empire: Mary Beard's Rome
From: Open Source
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
Black Mountain College: 'The Grass-Roots of Democracy'
From: Open Source
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

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