Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Fear and Fury

    Who remembers Bernie Goetz? Who remembers his victims? Or was Bernie Goetz the victim—the subway shooter who, back in 1984, fired at four black teenagers in a crowded subway car in Manhattan because he felt ... The post Fear and Fury appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    38 min

  2. 20 MAR

    Hit-and-Run Belligerence

    How should we see the Israeli-American War on Iran? How should we understand it, or maybe even escape it? The writer and historian Daniel Immerwahr is our guest, with the essential qualifications, starting with his ... The post Hit-and-Run Belligerence appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    35 min

  3. 11 MAR

    Sleepwalking into World War III

    I must say, among all the wise people commenting on this world’s situation, I honor Jeffrey Sachs especially for being relentless on the dangers out there, going back to the Biden years. Jeffrey Sachs. He ... The post Sleepwalking into World War III appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    37 min

  4. 6 MAR

    War with Iran

    We’re sorting puzzle pieces from the opening rounds of war with Iran. The U.S. and Israel started it. The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic in Iran was among the first to die in it, ... The post War with Iran appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    32 min

  5. 19 FEB

    Bernie’s Journey

    We’re tracking the Bernie Sanders story from a Brooklyn boyhood to the Green Mountain socialism that he implanted in Vermont, and then to his two offbeat campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination: in 2016, and ... The post Bernie’s Journey appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    51 min

  6. 5 FEB

    George Saunders on Life and the Afterlife

    We’re going off script out here in the afterlife, in the imagination of the triple-threat novelist George Saunders. He’s eminent as a writer of stories and novels, as a critical reader, and as a teacher ... The post George Saunders on Life and the Afterlife appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    32 min

  7. 22 JAN

    Pico Supreme

    Pico Iyer is the global citizen and now, inadvertently, the movie star—in the winter’s hot movie, Marty Supreme. Across a hundred conversations over the years, we thought we knew everything about him, the transcendentalist Buddhist ... The post Pico Supreme appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    46 min

  8. 8 JAN

    Age of Hemispheric Empires

    We’re getting our heads around the invasion of Venezuela and what feels like a rough new rule book for the so-called world order. Cue Greg Grandin, the hemispheric historian who wrote that big book America, ... The post Age of Hemispheric Empires appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    35 min
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