Open Source With Christopher Lydon
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Sinopsis
Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics
Episodios
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Prudent Statecraft
15/12/2022 Duración: 50minJohn Quincy Adams was the model president in the early republic who declared that the United States “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” But “go abroad” we did, as the republic became ...
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The Maelstrom of Geopolitics
09/12/2022 Duración: 50minA briefing session this hour from our strategic special branch, which is to say: the mind of Chas Freeman in the maelstrom of geopolitics. If President Obama had been given his first choice to sketch ...
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Silent Spring, 60 Years Later
01/12/2022 Duración: 50minHow’s to rescue the Earth from us people? Rachel Carson’s way – 60 years ago – was to write a book, and call it Silent Spring. She’d been a shy but defiant biologist in government ...
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Multipolarity
17/11/2022 Duración: 50minOur unipolar moment may be remembered as the United States’ turn as “king of the hill,” two decades or so between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rocket rise of China’s economy. What ...
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The New Right
11/11/2022 Duración: 50minThe hatching of a New Right Republican party, under fire, is the substance of this radio hour. It was simpler in Gilbert and Sullivan when the song said: every boy and every gal that’s born ...
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Polycrisis
04/11/2022 Duración: 50minFinally, there’s a word for it: the polycrisis, to describe the multiple messes we’re in. Our guest the historian Adam Tooze says it’s a polycrisis when old crises like war, weather, and disease are breeding ...
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A Just Cause
27/10/2022 Duración: 50minTalking time around the war in Ukraine may be approaching. This radio hour may be a moment in that trend: reaching out for strong views we hadn’t heard, in head-on disagreement about the morality and ...
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Taiwan, the World-Class Puzzle
21/10/2022 Duración: 50minNext on the global agenda comes Taiwan, the island off China once known as Formosa, meaning shapely, beautiful. Today it’s a puzzle with moving parts: a not-quite nation of 24 million people that has two ...
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Origin Stories
25/11/2021 Duración: 50minThis show was originally broadcast on December 5, 2019. Origin stories can be educated guesses, or leaps of collective imagination as to who we are, how we got to this point. The Big Bang is ...
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
16/07/2021 Duración: 51minWe know their songs, not so much what they were going through, those Black women artists who wrote and sang so many anthems of American life: Bessie Smith’s “Gimme a Pigfoot” and Mamie Smith’s “Crazy ... The post Liner Notes for the Revolution appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.