50 episodes
Open Source with Christopher Lydon Christopher Lydon
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4.5 • 30 Ratings
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Open Source is the world’s longest-running podcast. Christopher Lydon circles the big ideas in culture, the arts and politics with the smartest people in the world. It’s the kind of curious, critical, high-energy conversation we’re all missing nowadays.
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American Disorder
The key battle taking place in this American crisis year of 2024 is happening in our heads, according to the master historian Richard Slotkin. He’s here to tell us all that we’re in a 40-year ...
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Lessons from Hannah Arendt
We’re calling on Hannah Arendt for the twenty-first century—could she teach us how to think our way out of the authoritarian nightmare? Arendt wrote the book for all time on Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet ...
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Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets
We’re going to school on Taylor Swift, in the Harvard course. And all we know is, as her song says, we’re enchanted to meet her. Taylor Swift comes out of literature but she’s more than ...
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Of Melville and Marriage
We speak of the mystery of Herman Melville, or the misery of Melville, the American masterpiece man. For Moby-Dick alone, he is our Shakespeare, our Dante—though he fled the writing of prose for the last ...
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Against Despair
The subject, in a word, is despair, both public and private. The poets and spiritual seekers Christian Wiman and his wife Danielle Chapman are back to goad us, each with a new book. Their project ...
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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 life and a long afterlife. A black man from the Caribbean, he went to France, first as ...
Customer Reviews
Even handed and erudite
Informed and topical discussions without the hyperbole. Informed and interesting guests and a host with a genuinely curious mind.
Harold Bloom omission
I was looking through your list to listen again to your show on Harold Bloom you did in October after his death but couldn’t find it. Seems like you removed it for some reason and I feel sorry for it. This is disrespecting to your listeners and him who was the last literary titan of our age.
Very Thought Provoking
I love the people Chris brings into interview, the subjects he covers and the way he does it. It’s always an interesting and thoughtful exploration of how we got here and where we are going.