Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Of Melville and Marriage

We speak of the mystery of Herman Melville, or the misery of Melville, the American masterpiece...

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Against Despair

The subject, in a word, is despair, both public and private. The poets and spiritual seekers...

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The Rebel’s Clinic

Frantz Fanon is our interest in this podcast. The man had charisma across the board in a short...

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Algorithmic Anxiety

The question is how digital tech picks and chooses the content that comes to your phones and your...

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The Humbling of Harvard

Oldest and far the richest among American universities, Harvard is the apex, in some sense, of...

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The Most Secret Memory of Men

The only way into this podcast is a long leap headfirst into postcolonial French fiction, of...

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The Revolutionary

On the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, we’re face to face, almost, with an American...

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Israel and Palestine Across History

With the historian John Judis we are looking for a longer timeline in the crisis of Gaza, Israel,...

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Time’s Echo

The question that resurfaces in a time of horror may be what remains when memory is wiped out,...

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Chas Freeman on a Kaleidoscopic Turn

Just a month into the ferociously brutal and reckless war in Israel-Palestine, on what feels like...

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Upended Assumptions

In this podcast, two old friends in and out of journalism talk about the Middle East war, which...

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War and Dread

We are listening in the dark, after a catastrophe yet to be contained: more than 1,000 Israeli...

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George Eliot’s Marriage Story

The question is marriage. The answer in this podcast is Clare Carlisle’s sparkling book, The...

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Zadie Smith on The Fraud

Zadie Smith is a writer who matters, twenty years now after White Teeth, her breakthrough novel...

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Henry at Work

It’s Labor Day week, 2023, and Henry David Thoreau is the heart of our conversation. It’s not...

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The Cosmic Scholar

Harry Smith was the oddest duck you never heard of in the art underground: an unsightly, often...

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Noam Chomsky: American Socrates

It is said about Noam Chomsky that he has been to the study of language what Isaac Newton was to...

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The Country of the Blind

In The Country of the Blind, where the writer Andrew Leland is guiding our tour, they do things...

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Animal Spirits

This is the vitalism episode, with the passionate polymath Jackson Lears. His new book is beyond...

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Happy Birthday to Us

We’re marking the 20th birthday of podcasting in conversation with Erica Heilman, a prize...

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