Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Podcasts
Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics
Location:
Cambridge, MA
Description:
Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics
Twitter:
@radioopensource
Language:
English
Contact:
(617) 353-0692
Website:
http://www.radioopensource.org/
Email:
info@radioopensource.org
Episodes
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
3/23/2023
There’s nobody quite like Sonny Rollins in the All-American sound and story of jazz. He was a teenager in Harlem in the 1940s when major players caught on to a rising star. Steadily over the ...
Duration:00:39:22
This Other Eden
3/9/2023
Out of the blue a decade ago, Paul Harding won a huge popular following, first, and then the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his modern Maine sort of folk tale called Tinkers. His new one ...
Duration:00:35:07
Norman Mailer Turns 100
2/23/2023
“Don’t forget” is a mantra in our shop: “don’t forget” specially the characters, the moments that made us. Norman Mailer is the spirit-seeker and sometimes reckless truth-teller we are un-forgetting in this podcast. We are ...
Duration:00:37:31
A Radical American Life
2/9/2023
Lydia Moland is reminding us that when present company in American public life comes up short, the ancestors of American democracy and spirit are lurking out there, in abundance and power to reset our judgment ...
Duration:00:35:01
Thank You, Patrick Lydon
1/26/2023
This is family talk in rural Ireland toward the end of an extraordinary life. My brother Patrick was the youngest of six, the saint among us and always the brightest company. Two winters ago he’d ...
Duration:00:31:46
Moonshot Economics
1/12/2023
This show first aired on September 16, 2021. It’s hard not to notice that we’re flunking tests, right and left, and running out of strategies against global-size troubles. COVID, we said, was our test for ...
Duration:00:42:25
Mann the Magician
1/5/2023
This show originally aired on September 23, 2021. Thomas Mann was one of those cultural giants the world doesn’t seem to make anymore—artists with authority, almost as big as their countries, at the level of ...
Duration:00:42:40
Thoroughly Modern Mozart
12/22/2022
This show first aired on September 30, 2021. Who else could be said to make you smarter, just listening to the sound of his music? Only Mozart, that we know. For 300-and-some years now, he ...
Duration:00:50:37
Prudent Statecraft
12/15/2022
John Quincy Adams was the model president in the early republic who declared that the United States “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” But “go abroad” we did, as the republic became ...
Duration:00:50:37
The Maelstrom of Geopolitics
12/8/2022
A briefing session this hour from our strategic special branch, which is to say: the mind of Chas Freeman in the maelstrom of geopolitics. If President Obama had been given his first choice to sketch ...
Duration:00:50:11
Silent Spring, 60 Years Later
12/1/2022
How’s to rescue the Earth from us people? Rachel Carson’s way – 60 years ago – was to write a book, and call it Silent Spring. She’d been a shy but defiant biologist in government ...
Duration:00:50:25
Multipolarity
11/17/2022
Our unipolar moment may be remembered as the United States’ turn as “king of the hill,” two decades or so between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rocket rise of China’s economy. What ...
Duration:00:50:04
The New Right
11/10/2022
The hatching of a New Right Republican party, under fire, is the substance of this radio hour. It was simpler in Gilbert and Sullivan when the song said: every boy and every gal that’s born ...
Duration:00:50:10
Polycrisis
11/3/2022
Finally, there’s a word for it: the polycrisis, to describe the multiple messes we’re in. Our guest the historian Adam Tooze says it’s a polycrisis when old crises like war, weather, and disease are breeding ...
Duration:00:50:27
A Just Cause
10/27/2022
Talking time around the war in Ukraine may be approaching. This radio hour may be a moment in that trend: reaching out for strong views we hadn’t heard, in head-on disagreement about the morality and ...
Duration:00:50:38
Taiwan, the World-Class Puzzle
10/20/2022
Next on the global agenda comes Taiwan, the island off China once known as Formosa, meaning shapely, beautiful. Today it’s a puzzle with moving parts: a not-quite nation of 24 million people that has two ...
Duration:00:50:12
Humane Wartime
10/13/2022
Try a simple riddle, about the time and climate we Americans are living in, today: Do we call it (a) wartime or (b) peacetime? Tense time, for sure, and there’s war in the headlines. But ...
Duration:00:50:32
The Historians’ Diagnosis
10/6/2022
The conversation about a world in disarray feels urgent, elusive, etherized. Who will name this crisis and the roots of it: war, tribalism, maldistributed money, and pain, exceptionalism for rich people, maybe, for a rich ...
Duration:00:50:31
Cruel Britannia
9/29/2022
This show first aired on May 19, 2022. George Orwell said, “It’s so easy to be witty about the British Empire.” As in the throwaway line that English people had conquered the world in a ...
Duration:00:50:09
Lovecraft Country
9/22/2022
This show was first broadcast on October 31, 2019. H. P. Lovecraft’s frightful horror fiction—dated between Edgar Allan Poe’s and Stephen King’s—is the weirdest of the weird. Lovecraft found ravenous, man-eating rats in the walls ...
Duration:00:39:23