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On February 21, 1996, David Foster Wallace came to Boston. He was the not-quite recognized writer of the massive book, Infinite Jest, which was just beginning to capture the attention of reviewers, readers and a generation of writers. Chris interviewed David Foster Wallace on The Connection, and said he thought Wallace was "living in between a moment of cultish obscurity and international artistic celebrity, perhaps even immortality."

David Foster Wallace on his "lost and lonely" generation, February 1996 with Chris Lydon

Andrew Solomon, author of THE NOONDAY DEMON and FAR FROM THE TREE, focuses on his experiences with the families of mass killers: from the parents of Dylan Klebold, one of the two Columbine shooters to the father of Adam Lanza.

Andrew Solomon: The Shooter as "Somebody's Kid"

A 2011 conversation between Open Source's Christopher Lydon and the Arkansas poet C. D. Wright.

C. D. Wright, 1949 - 2016: In Triumph (A 2011 Conversation)

The late philosopher Hilary Putnam (1926 - 2016) was a political radical and a man of deep faith. In this clip from a 2000 episode of "The Connection with Christopher Lydon," Putnam makes the case for an understanding response to theists like him in a secularizing world.

Hilary Putnam, RIP: Try to See The Stained Glass from the Inside

This spring and summer, millions of Americans will go to the polls and vote. For most of us, our political participation begins and ends at the ballot box. The rest is mediated: through a mix of respectable newspapers and radio firebrands, punditry, hearsay, and Tweets.

The play of politics came with a set of old-saw formulas. The respectable candidates ended up winning. Ad spending buys votes. Gaffes are costly. And the party decides.

None of that has proven true this unconventional year. So maybe it’s no surprise that the big papers and networks seem to have first missed, then dismissed, then discouraged the popular movements behind Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

This exciting, profane, profound election has served as chum on the water for a media industry that was already agitated by the Internet, “disintermediation,” and vanishing income. 

But has the frenzy diverted American journalism from its fourth-estate duty: of holding candidates accountable? Giving voice to the voiceless? Referring readers to history and policy? Staying straight and honest with the citizenry? Or is that all 20th-century nostalgia?

Some of our guests, and most of our Twitter followers, feel that the big story this year was of a confrontation between a dissatisfied people and an establishment — that goes for the media, too. The big papers and networks seemed to have first missed, then dismissed, then discouraged the popular movements behind  Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. But that’s just the beginning — there were lots of weird media stories on the trail this year.


"Donald Trump is Breaking News": Jay Rosen, Margaret Sullivan, and David Bromwich

Allo' bruv...in episode 18 it's gone up the apples 'n pears, innit? We debut the De Crecio radio play and talk Brexit. Naill Ferguson compares leaving the EU to leaving his wife after a riding accident put her in a coma. Jonathan Shainin tells us what this all means for House Lannister and the new King in the North. Back in the US, Matt takes us through the horror show that is this year's "Politicon", "the unconventional political convention". Then we revisit Rod Dreher's head canon and debut the Chapo Male Bag feature.

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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/divorcing-europe/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2082365/Sue-Douglas-lost-husband-Niall-Ferguson-career-saved-horses.html

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/transgender-religious-liberty-knowing/

Episode 18 - The Upset Guv'ner: De Crecio's Brexit Bungle feat. @jonathanshainin (6/27/16)

It's Monday after the Brexit vote. We called Scottish political economist and austerity critic Mark Blyth to parse out the meaning of a referendum that he says has been 30 plus years in the making.

Brexit: Mark Blyth on the Phone

An Open Source summer series begins with a look into the future threat of AI and robotics.

"Apocalypse Now?," Episode 1: Rise of the Machines

On the inaugural episode of Frost/Christman, Amber and Matt discuss a time in America when rampant paranoia and distrust in government and corporate institutions generated a wave of thrillers about the malevolence of the Powers that Be. With special attention paid to the Alan Pakula duology of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE PARALLAX VIEW, as well as 70s fashions, horny journalists, and weed-dealing movie producers. 

Frost/Christman- Episode 1 - All the President's Men/The Parallax View

Episode 1 of 6. "Placement" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. November 19, 2019. At a new public housing project in Boston, mothers organize to try and close the city dump. Meanwhile, a black freedom movement emerges across Northern cities. 

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

Episode One, "Placement"

Open Source is an American conversation with global attitude, on the arts, humanities, and global affairs, hosted by Christopher Lydon. It was the world's first podcast (established 2003. Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/radioopensource 

David Foster Wallace on his "lost and lonely" generation, February 1996 with Chris Lydon

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