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Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics

437 - Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets
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  • 437 - Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets

    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 ...

    Thu, 28 Mar 2024 - 50min
  • 436 - Of Melville and Marriage

    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 ...

    Thu, 14 Mar 2024 - 36min
  • 435 - Against Despair

    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 ...

    Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 56min
  • 434 - The Rebel’s Clinic

    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 ...

    Thu, 15 Feb 2024 - 44min
  • 433 - Algorithmic Anxiety

    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.” ...

    Thu, 01 Feb 2024 - 42min
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