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Radio Open Source
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Arts, ideas & politics with Christopher Lydon
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Nicholson Baker Writes a Protest Song
Songs are no joke. I’m not being ironic with these songs. I’ve never done anything in which I feel more vulnerable to my own failings and inadequacies. Nicholson Baker in conversation with Chris Lydon in Boston, October, 2013 Nicholson Baker‘s voice has a blushing transparency that will make you...
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Graham Robb: Rescuing those Celts!
Graham Robb is our historian on a bicycle -- clarifying our Celtic roots in the Middle Earth of Tolkein, King Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin and Asterix, first by pedaling tirelessly through their landscape in the British Isles.
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Robert Dallek on Three Last Questions about JFK
Robert Dallek is reminding us that JFK was a pillow-talk peacenik who told his mistress on the Missile Crisis weekend, "I'd rather my kids be Red than dead." His big achievement was breaking the spell of nuclear madness. I'm asking: isn't that the real reason we love him so?
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Stephen Kinzer: Are the Dulles Brothers finally out of power?
Stephen Kinzer is marking a momentous turn in American foreign policy, as we speak. The 60-year Dulles Era of covert warfare, corporate manipulation, and "compulsive activism" abroad may be coming to an end.
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James Douglass: JFK and the Unspeakable, Part Two
Author JamesDouglass, in JFK and the Unspeakable, is not casting John Kennedy for sainthood but he is telling the story as holy tragedy, in which JFK with enormous courage accepted a miracle knowing that the price might be his life.
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