Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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Open Source with Christopher Lydon episodes

February 22, 2019 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 ...
45 min
February 14, 2019 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 ...
40 min
February 08, 2019 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 ...
51 min
February 01, 2019 All in Favor…
A conversation about Astra Taylor’s new documentary What Is Democracy? with 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 ...
51 min
January 25, 2019 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 ...
50 min
January 19, 2019 Andre Dubus’s Carny World
A conversation with Andre Dubus III about his new novel, Gone So Long. An old-fashioned sort of writer from this part of the world, and a writer we love for his swerves and surprises, Andre Dubus ...
27 min
January 11, 2019 Is the Green New Deal For Real?
A conversation about the “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. ...
51 min
January 04, 2019 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 ...
51 min
December 21, 2018 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 ...
50 min
December 14, 2018 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 ...
51 min