Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics
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APR 25, 2024
American Disorder
The key battle taking place in this American crisis year of 2024 is happening in our heads, according to the master historian Richard Slotkin. He’s here to tell us all that we’re in a 40-year ...
42 MIN
APR 11, 2024
Lessons from Hannah Arendt
We’re calling on Hannah Arendt for the twenty-first century—could she teach us how to think our way out of the authoritarian nightmare? Arendt wrote the book for all time on Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet ...
47 MIN
MAR 28, 2024
Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets
We’re going to school on Taylor Swift, in the Harvard course. And all we know is, as her song says, we’re enchanted to meet her. Taylor Swift comes out of literature but she’s more than ...
50 MIN
MAR 14, 2024
Of Melville and Marriage
We speak of the mystery of Herman Melville, or the misery of Melville, the American masterpiece man. For Moby-Dick alone, he is our Shakespeare, our Dante—though he fled the writing of prose for the last ...
36 MIN
MAR 1, 2024
Against Despair
The subject, in a word, is despair, both public and private. The poets and spiritual seekers Christian Wiman and his wife Danielle Chapman are back to goad us, each with a new book. Their project ...
56 MIN
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