@radioopensource

An independent radio show about ideas, ideas, and politics hosted by Christopher Lydon. Since 2003. Support us! https://xitter.cf/t.co/lXdZoTAP7x

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We’re in the NY Times, thanks to @MollyYoung, who points out that Chris Lydon can “talk about anything. Anything! Sometimes I try to think up topics that might stump him and then inevitably find an episode on that exact topic lurking in the archives.” nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books…

Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs (Published 2021)

The Times’s staff critics talk with one another about the reading they did this year, on and off the job.

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So great to speak with Chris Lydon & @radioopensource about Henry George, neoliberalism, and much else besides. Chris had clearly read the whole book--no small feat-- and I felt like his questions really got to the heart of it. Please give it a listen. radioopensource.org/capitali…
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Trade, Trumped — In an interview with @radioopensource, @MkBlyth explains the looming global trade war, offering insights from his hometown pub in Dundee, Scotland. (VIDEO) ow.ly/LAHc50VQYif

Trade, Trumped

We’re staring down the global trade war with Mark Blyth at Brown Un...

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Open Source has really pivoted to the other microblogging place, the one with a . . . cloudless . . . sky. Find us there!
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We are on the other site now. If indeed the sky is blue, / search for radioopensource to find us, you.
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This week: the novelist Joshua Cohen on Trump, Netanyahu, and the state of the world. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts: radioopensource.org/joshua-c…

Joshua Cohen’s Camp

We’re with the writer’s writer Joshua Cohen—beyond category, but ever ahead of the game. He’s a realist, a fantasist, a satirist, New Jersey-born and at home in Israel. Joshua Cohen. It’s his...

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This week's show: Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) reflects, with maximal lucidity, on what just happened. Wherever you go for podcasts, and at our site: radioopensource.org/united-s…

United States of Fear

Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its frail economy—into something very modern and...

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Richard Powers is back on the show this week, in a mind-expanding conversation prompted by his new novel PLAYGROUND: radioopensource.org/playgrou…

Playground

Richard Powers may just be the bravest big novelist out there. His new book is titled Playground, in which AI plays with the natural world. The question is whether and how the digital transformation...

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LISTEN: @radioopensource "A Jerusalem Tragedy" - In Conversation with #NathanThrall radioopensource.org/a-jerusa… #Palestine #Gaza #Israel

A Jerusalem Tragedy

For our shattering Age of October 7, Nathan Thrall has written a double masterpiece, in my reading. Already a Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is a searching...

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This week: a conversation with @NathanThrall about the West Bank, and about his Pulitzer-winning exploration of a Jerusalem tragedy. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts: radioopensource.org/a-jerusa…

A Jerusalem Tragedy

For our shattering Age of October 7, Nathan Thrall has written a double masterpiece, in my reading. Already a Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is a searching...

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This week, hear @billmckibben on the latest turns in the climate story. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts! radioopensource.org/the-clim…

The Climate Story’s Breaking Point

We’re in Climate Week 2024, with the indispensable, independent activist and authority Bill McKibben. We catch him packing, in Vermont, for what’s far from his first climate rodeo in New York.

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This week, it's @fotoole on the bear-baiting style of the presidential debate. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts: radioopensource.org/bear-bai…

Bear-Baiting Debating

We’re in our very own post-debate spin room, taking the measure of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and of ourselves, as the voters they were pitching. Did we get what we expected? Did we get what ...

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On this week's show, hear @tressiemcphd on a shift from the Clinton era to the Kamala Harris era: radioopensource.org/the-harr…

The Harris Machine

There’s a puzzle in this podcast, and it comes with our prize sociologist, Tressie McMillan Cottom. It’s roughly this: How does Kamala Harris, after the Democratic convention in Chicago and for the...

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This week, we're talking to @CornelWest about his presidential campaign. Find the conversation wherever you go for podcasts, or at our site: radioopensource.org/in-it-to…

In It to the Finish

Cornel West is our guest, the preacher-teacher in a tradition of black prophetic fire, as he puts it, the line of holy anger in American history, and this time on the presidential ballot in a ...

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Our show this week: Marilynne Robinson, author of GILEAD and HOUSEKEEPKING, talks about politics and belief in America: radioopensource.org/american…

American Believer

The novelist Marilynne Robinson has a nearly constitutional role in our heads, our culture by now. She’s the artist we trust to observe the damaged heart of America, and to tell us what we’re going...

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GODWIN by @JosephONeillx is by some distance my favourite novel of this year. It reminded me of the novels of @helendewitt – a comedy that is both seriously funny and deadly serious. As a football novel it's terrific, but even better is the story of a technical writing collective
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This week, in between the Milwaukee convention and the Paris Olympics, hear @JosephONeillx on sports and politics—wherever you go for podcasts or at our site: radioopensource.org/politica…

Political Football

In the strangeness of mid-summer 2024, the cosmopolitan novelist Joseph O’Neill is our bridge between the Republican convention in Milwaukee and the Summer Olympics in Paris. He knows both sides of...

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Really enjoyed talking with Christopher Lydon again...
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This week, in between the Milwaukee convention and the Paris Olympics, hear @JosephONeillx on sports and politics—wherever you go for podcasts or at our site: radioopensource.org/politica…

Political Football

In the strangeness of mid-summer 2024, the cosmopolitan novelist Joseph O’Neill is our bridge between the Republican convention in Milwaukee and the Summer Olympics in Paris. He knows both sides of...

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This week, in between the Milwaukee convention and the Paris Olympics, hear @JosephONeillx on sports and politics—wherever you go for podcasts or at our site: radioopensource.org/politica…

Political Football

In the strangeness of mid-summer 2024, the cosmopolitan novelist Joseph O’Neill is our bridge between the Republican convention in Milwaukee and the Summer Olympics in Paris. He knows both sides of...

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This week: hear John Kaag on a folk history of American ideas, running alongside the history of Emerson-Thoreau-William James: radioopensource.org/american…

American Bloods

In a forlorn Fourth of July week, in the pit of an unpresidential, anti-presidential campaign year, 2024, we welcome back John Kaag, who writes history with a philosophical flair, never more colorful...

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Replying to @jaycaspiankang
The Celtics might win the rest of the titles this decade.
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