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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American Socrates: The Life and Mind of Noam Chomsky
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Noam Chomsky for 50 years has been America’s Socrates, our public pest with questions that sting.

Bought by KVNF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KALW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Bob Dylan, The Poet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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(Rerun episode from 12/7/16) Bob Dylan, the poet, has been singing more than 50 years, but have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMXT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Something’s Happening Here
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In the first summer of Trump, 2017, there’s something happening and it feels bigger than the Comey hearings, even Russia-gate. Who knew that a Brit...

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


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Wild & Disobedient Life (Pt. 1 of Thoreau Series Summer 2017)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Henry David Thoreau, on his 200th birthday, is an American immortal who got there the hard way – against the grain of his town and his times.

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
The Concord Circle & the Birth of American Philosophy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Henry David Thoreau on his 200th birthday has invited us back to his woodsy, watery old town of Concord, Massachusetts where crystalline American p...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Coming Crisis in Opioid Nation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Opioid epidemic running rampant this summer has a 30-year back story and a grisly punch-line for 2017: drug deaths this year alone are heading ...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Billy Bragg’s Guide to the Music of Dissent
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Billy Bragg has been the premier troubadour for British radicalism for more than thirty years: a democratic socialist with a guitar and a steadfast...

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


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
This is Your Brain on Trump
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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There is no following this story, this confounding condition, this inescapable event called Trump.

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Harder, Better, Faster, CRISPR
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The dawn of a new age flashed across the news this summer – dateline Oregon: scientists from the US, China and South Korea together had tweaked the...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Plague of Fascism in America
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It’s plague time in America. We’ve reacquainted ourselves with the wannabe centurions of white supremacy: their faces, their weapons, their torches.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Welcome to Our Neoliberal World
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In recent weeks, our comments section has been filled with request to define a term we use constantly on this show: neoliberalism.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Robert Lowell and the Poetry of a Suffering Mind
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Robert Lowell was the last of his kind: a New England aristocrat of Olympian thunder and civic weight, dead-set from boyhood on artistic greatness,...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Farewell to John Ashbery
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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John Ashbery seemed to lower, not raise, his voice when he spoke his poems.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mutually Assured Madness
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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At the brink of who knows what with North Korea, we seem to be back on the scary ledge as in the old Cold War cartoon: enemy rock-climbers hanging ...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Rethinking Schools in the DeVos Era
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Betsy Devos’s “Rethinking School” tour can feel like a mission to dismantle the whole system, public schools first.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Unnatural Disaster
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Puerto Rico, a territory of three-and-a-half million US citizens, is unplugged, de-sheltered and desperate for months to come.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Adapting to Disaster
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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An eerie suspense hangs over this Post-Puerto Rico moment. Seas rising, spirits falling.

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Thelonious Monk at 100
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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At Thelonious Monk’s hundredth birthday, it’s our ears that have changed, not his sound.

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Intelligence By Design
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The “intelligence explosion” foretold 50 years ago, could be here any minute. Artificial intelligence has now survived the “AI winter” — and is bac...

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


  • Added: Oct 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Scramble for Amazon
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Amazon, the online everything store with the arrow-headed smile in its logo, is ready to build its second headquarters (outside Seattle this time) ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUAF Public Radio, KVSC, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8

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