PODCAST
Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics
Episodes
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Billionaire Noir
The most honored movie of the year looks to be Parasite, from Korea, about the soul-crushing advance of mega-wealth and the heartbreak of poor people with a dream of catching up. From the Pacific Rim, ... The post Billionaire Noir appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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In Hoffa's Shadow
Jimmy Hoffa will never be found, and won't be forgotten either. What was it about the Teamster tough guy that's more compelling 45 years after his perfect-crime murder than in his larger-than-life career? He was ... The post In Hoffa's Shadow appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Lovecraft Country
H. P. Lovecraft's frightful horror fiction’Äîdated between Edgar Allan Poe's and Stephen King's’Äîis the weirdest of the weird. Lovecraft found ravenous, man-eating rats in the walls and foundations of our houses, and in our hearts ... The post Lovecraft Country appeared first on Open Source with...
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Monopoly vs. Democracy
It's new for most Americans that we're embarrassed by our democracy. We don't know where it went wrong, or whether it'll survive. Matt Stoller explains it this way: we've come to do politics the way ... The post Monopoly vs. Democracy appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Harold Bloom's Spark
Harold Bloom sat for 60 inspired, combative years at the high table of the All-American book group. His passing this week can be said to mark the extinction of a very rare breed. He was ... The post Harold Bloom's Spark appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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The Neuro-Adventures of Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks was the beloved doctor of strong souls in afflicted bodies. He was a neurologist with an eye for the invisible, the medical detective who found himself addicted to his patients in the back ... The post The Neuro-Adventures of Oliver Sacks appeared first on Open Source with…
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Impeach This
The impeachment treatment for Donald Trump looks already an ultimate fighting contest with a nasty guy who makes up his own rules. We're thinking it through this hour. Do you credit Nancy Pelosi with a ... The post Impeach This appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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The CIA's Covert Chemist
We're at home with Stephen Kinzer, the longtime reporter of secret U.S. operations in books like¬ÝOverthrow¬Ýand¬ÝAll the Shah's Men.¬ÝIn¬Ýa new book,¬ÝPoisoner in Chief, Kinzer looks at a scientist named Sidney Gottlieb and the notorious "mind ... The post The CIA's Covert Chemist appeared first...
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Tech-Master Disaster: Part Three
Take a walk through Kendall Square, Cambridge, this hour. It's the Emerald City of biotechnology’Äîas magical/mysterious as the Land of Oz, but it's real, too. The new tech of genomic medicine, re-engineering life in wet ... The post Tech-Master Disaster: Part Three appeared first on Open Source...
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Tech-Master Disaster: Part Two
It took the late, notorious Jeffrey Epstein to force the conversation, but now MIT can't stop talking about what money is too dirty to take in the cause of "inventing the future," as the tarnished ... The post Tech-Master Disaster: Part Two appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Tech-Master Disaster: Part One
The late Jeffrey Epstein stands for at least three levels of mystery: the man himself, a boastful sex offender, convicted of preying on under-age women; second, there's his money machine and its unsavory connections with ... The post Tech-Master Disaster: Part One appeared first on Open Source…
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Pick Your Populism
Mark Blyth is that noisy wise-guy on speed in our portable Glasgow pub, and he's locating our anxieties about a world at sea. Where we're at, he is sputtering loud and clear, is between populisms ... The post Pick Your Populism appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Toni Morrison
We've been reflecting on Toni Morrison and her legacy, and so we're thinking of Chris's interview with her back on The Connection. Here from our archives is that interview, which was occasioned by Morrison's 1997 ... The post Toni Morrison appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Tom Reney's Discs for a Desert Island
The jazz DJ Tom Reney has been telling people for 40 years about the true American art form. This hour he's telling people about himself for a change: the inner life of a taste-maker, in ... The post Tom Reney's Discs for a Desert Island appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!
Herman Melville, at his 200th birthday, is the American Shakespeare if only for his epic prose poem Moby Dick, or The Whale.¬ÝThat's Maximum Melville; we're celebrating, instead, his short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener." It's the ... The post Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity! appeared first on Open…
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Tarantino's 9th
Spoiler alert! (Really.) The big movie to reckon with this summer may be as much about the mood of 2019 as about the Helter-Skelter 1960s. It's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino's ninth ... The post Tarantino's 9th appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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A Politics of Love
It's been Marianne Williamson's week in the presidential campaign, by the new metrics of Tweets (running less and less snarky), and Google searches asking¬Ýwho is this ageless New Ager, this fount of love and toughness, ... The post A Politics of Love appeared first on Open Source with…
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Fuhgedaboutit
"You must remember this," the songwriter said, but is it ever that simple? Same for all the admonitions: never to forget. Really, never? Lewis Hyde is back, the wisdom-writer and provocateur, to wonder if we've ... The post Fuhgedaboutit appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Middlemarch at the Beach
Middlemarch, a novel by the woman who gave herself a man's by-line, "George Eliot," may be the most honored masterpiece you've been avoiding all your life. Here's the point: read it this summer. You're ready ... The post Middlemarch at the Beach appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Casino Capital
Casino gambling makes an odd fit with old bean-and-codfish Boston, even with Boston today: the best big college town in the country, the leading edge of genomic medicine, the home address of sports champions and ... The post Casino Capital appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Adventures in D Flat
Composer Matt Aucoin stands for the proposition that the kid playing baseball next door in Medfield, Massachusetts, can grow up to be all music, all the time: mind, heart, spirit, to his fingertips. He remembers ... The post Adventures in D Flat appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Africa, Maine
Migrants from the Congo and Angola, by way of Texas, stepping off buses in Portland, Maine, by the hundreds, taking shelter and sleeping on cots on a hardwood floor built for professional basketball? You've seen ... The post Africa, Maine appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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23 and You
The Democratic debates are going to feel like a long weekend with the whole extended family: grandfather figures banging the table, no-nonsense women in the clan taking the old guys to task; up-start kids you ... The post 23 and You appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Who Killed the American Century?
Richard Holbrooke makes a case study in American power. He had a diplomatic career, starting in Vietnam, of heroic ambition and hyperactive persistence. He had a peace-making triumph that ended the Balkan wars, then a ... The post Who Killed the American Century? appeared first on Open Source…
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Tiananmen Square and China's 1980s
China in the 1980s can sound like a Paradise Lost’Äîparadise crushed by tanks on Tiananmen Square 30 years ago, paradise erased by massacre and state propaganda ever since, an unmarked memory hole. Except that people ... The post Tiananmen Square and China's 1980s appeared first on Open Source…
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Beyond Stonewall: From Power to Pride
The Stonewall Uprising, fifty years ago, was chapter one in modern LGBTQ history. It was rough and ready in New York. ¬ÝIt was sexy and often celebratory in the San Francisco version. In Boston, true ... The post Beyond Stonewall: From Power to Pride appeared first on Open Source with Christopher...
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At Home in Japan with Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer once described himself as “a global village on two legs.” He’s the writing champion of cosmopolitan consciousness who lived awhile inside the Los Angeles airport just to feel the great stream of humanity, ... The post At Home in Japan with Pico Iyer appeared first on Open Source with...
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John Bolton's War?
Three guys walk into a bar in the Middle East. A Saudi: bin Salman. An Israeli called Bibi. An American’Äîcall him Donald. They all know one thing deeper than deep: they hated that nuclear deal ... The post John Bolton's War? appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Amazing Aretha
Aretha Franklin made you believe you were hearing both heaven and earth. Her voice was not of this world: it was "a gift of God," people have said. She was the reason women want to ... The post Amazing Aretha appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Russiagate, Unredacted
A conversation about collusion, obstruction of justice, and the full Mueller Report with Seth Berman, Andy Bacevich, and David Bromwich. A second chance for Mueller Report to pin a Russian tale on Donald Trump's election ... The post Russiagate, Unredacted appeared first on Open Source with...
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The Bauhaus in Your House
A conversation on art, architecture, and design with Tamar Avishai, Peter Chermayeff, Ann Beha, and Sebastian Smee. Bauhaus was the art school in Germany that created the look of the twentieth century. We just live ... The post The Bauhaus in Your House appeared first on Open Source with...
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Esperanza Spalding: Drawn to Greatness
Esperanza Spalding's eyes sparkle when she says she's "drawn to greatness" in other musicians, greatness meaning the charisma of boldness in the interval between solid tradition and scary experimentalism. Listeners of all sorts can see ... The post Esperanza Spalding: Drawn to Greatness appeared...
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Collusion Delusion
In the annals of public conversation, we seem to have reached toxic meltdown in the close of the mighty Mueller investigation. We're past the "liar, liar, pants on fire" stage of a race to the ... The post Collusion Delusion appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Barriers and borders and frontiers (oh my!)
A conversation with¬ÝGreg Grandin, Valeria Luiselli, and¬ÝJohn Lanchester. A reckless wall-building era runs round the 21st century globe. Reckless next to the New England farmer in Robert Frost's famous poem. He's mending his wall in ... The post Barriers and borders and frontiers (oh my!)...
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Real Education About Artificial Intelligence
Siri: what is 'artificial intelligence'? In computer science, she says, AI can refer to any device that senses its environment and responds to reach a goal. A simple translation of A. I. as, say, 'robotic ... The post Real Education About Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Open Source with...
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On Becoming Who You Are
A conversation with John Kaag and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen on Nietzsche, philosophy, and life. The news about Nietzsche, as you may have heard, is that the nastiest old name in German philosophy doesn't scare us anymore. ... The post On Becoming Who You Are appeared first on Open Source with...
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Why We're Addicted to Facebook
Could it possibly be that Stanford's great humanist Robert Pogue Harrison invented Renˆ© Girard out of sheer longing for an omni-theorist of our interlocking social and spiritual trials? Harrison presented Girard in a striking piece ... The post Why We're Addicted to Facebook appeared first on…
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Intelligent Redesign?
A conversation with George Church and Antonio Regalado about gene editing and the future of biotech. Ready or not, we are at the gateway into CRISPR world and CRISPR think: CRISPR the acronym for biology's ... The post Intelligent Redesign? appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Second Guessing the Oscars
A conversation about the movies with A. S. Hamrah, Beth Gilligan, Katherine Irving. We've reached that odd ritual of cultural reckoning. Between the Super Bowl and Opening Day of the national pastime, Hollywood holds up ... The post Second Guessing the Oscars appeared first on Open Source with...
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Gandhi and "The Years That Changed the World"
Mahatma Gandhi led the liberation of India from British rule in the first half of the 20th Century, by massive and peaceful resistance. He is said to be out of political fashion in India these ... The post Gandhi and "The Years That Changed the World" appeared first on Open Source with…
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A Coup in Caracas
A conversation on the crisis in Venezuela with Alejandro Velasco, Jeff Sachs, Greg Grandin, and Leo Blanco. The ruin of Venezuela and the world's answer to it mark the climax of an epic, late in ... The post A Coup in Caracas appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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All in Favor…
A conversation about Astra Taylor's new documentary What Is Democracy?¬Ýwith Astra Taylor, David Runciman, and Kali Akuno. We used to know what we liked about that word 'democracy,' and we were ready to fight for ... The post All in Favor… appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Under Surveillance: Capitalism in the Digital Age
Yes, Virginia, the world did change direction in the late summer of 2001, and it's been changing us ever since. 9/11 had everything to do it, but it was also the panicky season of the ... The post Under Surveillance: Capitalism in the Digital Age appeared first on Open Source with Christopher…
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Andre Dubus's Carny World
A conversation with Andre Dubus III about his new novel,¬ÝGone So Long.¬Ý An old-fashioned sort of writer from this part of the world, and a writer we love for his swerves and surprises, Andre Dubus ... The post Andre Dubus's Carny World appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Is the Green New Deal For Real?
A conversation about the¬Ý"Green New Deal" with Bill McKibben, Naomi Oreskes, and Daniel Schrag. The mission, as it turned out, was to transform the American economy and save the country, no less, over twelve years. ... The post Is the Green New Deal For Real? appeared first on Open Source with...
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The New Normal
A conversation with Stephen Walt and Fintan O'Toole on the state of the world at the beginning of 2019. At the start of a new year, count the new normals in a changed world: new ... The post The New Normal appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
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Lenny at 100
A tribute to Leonard Bernstein with Nigel Simeone, Jamie Bernstein, and Augusta Read Thomas. Leonard Bernstein, the multi-musician, did it all in his lifetime. At his 100th anniversary this year, the only question people still ... The post Lenny at 100 appeared first on Open Source with…
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The Tower and the Square
A conversation about Brexit, yellow vests, and the state of the European Union with Arthur Goldhammer, Vanessa Bee, Julian Bourg, and Alan Rusbridger. A nasty winter of discontent is in the air, blowing around old ... The post The Tower and the Square appeared first on Open Source with…
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