Open Source with Christopher Lydon podcast

Campus Uproar

9/5/2024

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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We’re sampling the uproar rising from American campuses: it’s a full blown, leaderless movement by now, in an established American tradition, but still contested, still finding its way, looking for its pattern. Columbia and USC ...

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Nicholson Baker Finds a Likeness
23/5/2024
46:10
We’re taking a drawing lesson with Nicholson Baker—yes, the multifarious writers’ writer Nick Baker; the COVID lab leak detective; the pacifist historian of World War II in his book Human Smoke; he’s also the cherubic ...
Campus Uproar
9/5/2024
55:19
We’re sampling the uproar rising from American campuses: it’s a full blown, leaderless movement by now, in an established American tradition, but still contested, still finding its way, looking for its pattern. Columbia and USC ...
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American Disorder
25/4/2024
42:44
The key battle taking place in this American crisis year of 2024 is happening in our heads, according to the master historian Richard Slotkin. He’s here to tell us all that we’re in a 40-year ...
Lessons from Hannah Arendt
11/4/2024
47:44
We’re calling on Hannah Arendt for the twenty-first century—could she teach us how to think our way out of the authoritarian nightmare? Arendt wrote the book for all time on Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet ...
Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets
28/3/2024
50:57
We’re going to school on Taylor Swift, in the Harvard course. And all we know is, as her song says, we’re enchanted to meet her. Taylor Swift comes out of literature but she’s more than ...
Of Melville and Marriage
14/3/2024
36:44
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 Dante—though he fled the writing of prose for the last ...
Against Despair
1/3/2024
56:40
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
15/2/2024
44:06
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 ...
Algorithmic Anxiety
1/2/2024
42:37
The question is how digital tech picks and chooses the content that comes to your phones and your brain, or, as Kyle Chayka puts it in a brave new book Filterworld: “how algorithms flattened culture.” ...
The Humbling of Harvard
18/1/2024
39:53
Oldest and far the richest among American universities, Harvard is the apex, in some sense, of American intellectualism, and it will be a long time figuring out just how it lost a big game it ...

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Campus Uproar

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Altri episodi di "Open Source with Christopher Lydon"

Nicholson Baker Finds a Likeness

Campus Uproar

American Disorder

Lessons from Hannah Arendt

Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets

Of Melville and Marriage

Against Despair

The Rebel’s Clinic

Algorithmic Anxiety

The Humbling of Harvard