Open Source with Christopher Lydon podcast

Campus Uproar

2024-05-09

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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Campus Uproar

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Fler avsnitt från "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