The 7 Best Open Source with Christopher Lydon Podcast Episodes
1) Let Us Now Praise John Ashbery
John Ashbery seemed to lower, not raise, his voice when he spoke his poems. “Hammer and tongs, as it were, tended to drive ideas and meanings away,” he thought. “They only come back in when ...
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Karl Ove Knausgaard on Art and Loneliness
Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote a 6-volume selfie that a lot of us can’t stop reading. My Struggle he called it, looking inward and talking to himself for thousands of pages. Autumn, his new book, is ...
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Gatsby at 100: Fitzgerald’s Warning about Trumpism
We have a key, finally, to the mystery of Donald Trump and where he came from. He was born almost exactly 100 years ago in the imagination of the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. What he ...
4) Miracles and Wonder
We’re considering the Jesus story with the historian Elaine Pagels. Her new book is a marvel, crowning a lifetime of bestselling scholarship, sifting the sources and retuning the narrative in and arou...Show More
5) Trump vs. Harvard
We’re tracking President Trump’s squeeze on higher education, and the argument in the Ivy League: whether or not to make a fight of it. First, Columbia surrendered under a Trump threat to cut $400 mil...Show More
6) From Social to Spiritual Media
We’re reading our way out of a ruined time with the model reader, Patricia Lockwood. She’s the poet laureate of the internet, for starters. She’s a big-league literary critic, master of social media a...Show More
7) A New World
We’re looking for our American place in what can feel like a new world order, with Stephen Walt, our first and favorite so-called realist in the foreign policy game—realists being the people who steer...Show More
8) Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope
We’re with Brandon Terry and his tragic vision of the civil rights movement: Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope is the title of his new book. It’s a map of our minds and our memories, a catalog ...
9) Stress-Testing the Rule of Law
What is breaking down or what’s broken when the governor of Illinois says he’s being invaded by the National Guard of Texas under President Trump’s orders, or when the president is dueling with Oregon...Show More
10) Mrs. Dalloway at 100
Call this Mrs. Dalloway’s podcast. We’re reading classic fiction from a century ago for light on the strangeness of the world in our day, or maybe just for relief reading a great old book. The ...