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Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Written by: Christopher Lydon
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 Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Art
Episodes
  • Age of Hemispheric Empires

    Age of Hemispheric Empires
    Jan 8 2026

    We’re getting our heads around the invasion of Venezuela and what feels like a rough new rule book for the so-called world order. Cue Greg Grandin, the hemispheric historian who wrote that big book America, ...

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    35 mins
  • A Thousand Years of Capitalism

    A Thousand Years of Capitalism
    Nov 26 2025

    We’re talking about capitalism this time, trying to reckon the power of big money to shape—even rule—the human species. Capitalism is the one-word name given to a thousand-year-old force. It’s not a science or doctrine ...

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    37 mins
  • John Updike’s Vocation

    John Updike’s Vocation
    Nov 15 2025

    We’re rediscovering John Updike in the afterlife of a great writer. The Selected Letters of John Updike, just published, come to 800 pages of unguarded messages to his wives and lovers, to his mother and ...

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    39 mins
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