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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258 Pieces

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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, WNPR, KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
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, 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


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • 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
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 WMUU-LP, WRPI, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
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...

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  • 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, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 05, 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...

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  • 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
DFW, FTW
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It’s been 20 years since the publication of Infinite Jest. Is there a chance David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was right?

Bought by KPIP-LP


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

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen'
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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 WLPR, WMUU-LP, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 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


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

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  • Added: Jul 04, 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...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
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, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN, and WABE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
What Money Can't Buy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seven years after the credit crunch, we know the markets have rebounded. Executive pay is back up; the public sector’s still shrinking relatively a...

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  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Rebirth of a Nation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Both our guests Eric Foner and Heather Cox Richardson want to shout it from the rooftops: the little-known history of Reconstruction is where the s...

Bought by KMXT, KPIP-LP, and WRPI


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3

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