Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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How William James Can Save Your Life

Posted April 6, 2023 • 00:38:49

William James, thinker and writer, was known widely in the nineteenth century as the adorable genius who invented American pragmatism. He was a brain...

Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

Posted March 23, 2023 • 00:39:22

There’s nobody quite like Sonny Rollins in the All-American sound and story of jazz. He was a teenager in Harlem in the 1940s when major players caught...

This Other Eden

Posted March 9, 2023 • 00:35:07

Out of the blue a decade ago, Paul Harding won a huge popular following, first, and then the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his modern Maine sort of...

Norman Mailer Turns 100

Posted February 23, 2023 • 00:37:31

“Don’t forget” is a mantra in our shop: “don’t forget” specially the characters, the moments that made us. Norman Mailer is the spirit-seeker...

A Radical American Life

Posted February 9, 2023 • 00:35:01

Lydia Moland is reminding us that when present company in American public life comes up short, the ancestors of American democracy and spirit are lurking...