Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Zionism Riddle
Zionism has been the question that keeps changing. Once it was: How to build a safe home for the Jews of the world? Today its more nearly: How to build a safe neighborhood around the ...
Chasing Beauty
Were on a hometown spree along the famous Fenway in the heart of Boston. Fenway Park is where the Red Sox play, John Updikes lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Fenway Court, built around the ...
Nicholson Baker Finds a Likeness
Were taking a drawing lesson with Nicholson Bakeryes, the multifarious writers writer Nick Baker; the COVID lab leak detective; the pacifist historian of World War II in his book Human Smoke; hes
Campus Uproar
Were sampling the uproar rising from American campuses: its a full blown, leaderless movement by now, in an established American tradition, but still contested, still finding its way, looking for it
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. Hes here to tell us all that were in a 40-year ...
Lessons from Hannah Arendt
Were calling on Hannah Arendt for the twenty-first centurycould she teach us how to think our way out of the authoritarian nightmare? Arendt wrote the book for all time on Hitlers Germany and Stali
Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets
Were going to school on Taylor Swift, in the Harvard course. And all we know is, as her song says, were enchanted to meet her. Taylor Swift comes out of literature but shes more than ...
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 Dantethough he fled the writing of prose for the l
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 ...
The Rebel’s Clinic
Frantz Fanon is our interest in this podcast. The man had charisma across the board in a short life and a long afterlife. A black man from the Caribbean, he went to France, first as ...