Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Summary: An American conversation with global attitude, on the arts, humanities and global affairs, hosted by Christopher Lydon.
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Podcasts:
Chris Hayes, the rising star of Talk TV, is a super-competitive smart guy who'll tell you "the cult of smart guys" is our downfall.
John Lanchester is unfolding his big novel CAPITAL about London (and the world) in the Age of Funny Money. It isn't over.
Jacob Hacker, Yale's bright light on American politics, is telling us how corporate capitalism ate the American Dream.
Vanessa Williams scores the generational fight: the wily elders of the Tea Party have won more than the passionate youth of "Occupy."
James K. Galbraith, the University of Texas economist, extends his famous father's critique of our unequally "affluent society."
Dan Ariely, the "Predictably Irrational" psychologist, reveals the con-game in politics: how we talk ourselves into an unhappy dead-end society.
Siddhartha Mukherjee -- "biographer" of cancer in The Emperor of All Maladies -- is prescribing "innovation" for the malaise of 2012.