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Jonah Lehrer: Brain Science for the Rest of Us

Jonah Lehrer: Brain Science for the Rest of Us

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Jonah Lehrer. (47 minutes, 22 mb mp3) Jonah Lehrer The joy of reading Jonah Lehrer is that he’s scientist enough to navigate oceans of brain-science lab reports. He knows the neural pathways where Blink meets Nudge. But he’s literature bug and humanist enough to remember that the proper study [...]

Audio|Tue, 24 Feb 2009
|Tom Bradyfound at11:11, 0:43

“…In process far more information can take it all these tax. Editor Tom Brady or baseball player that allows you to act. Act on information that that you may have no conscious awareness of the guest Tom Brady how he chose to throw to the receiver whether running back in the flat or the -- and you don't midfield. Cause …”

“…for art as the forerunner. Of scientific discovery about the brain. -- new book how we choose. Which reads like -- sequel is about the limitations on reason. And by implication the limitations and science itself. …”

Dave McKenna: My Private Collection of the Master

Dave McKenna: My Private Collection of the Master

Click to listen to Dave McKenna playing and talking music on Chris’ piano. (87 minutes, 40 mb mp3) Dave McKenna chez Lydon: Jeff Dunn photo Dave McKenna called himself a saloon pianist, but nobody else did. The genius Art Tatum heard in Dave a sort of successor. Miles Davis’s great collaborator Bill Evans found in [...]

Audio|Thu, 19 Feb 2009
|Harry Jamesfound at47:21, 1:48

“…whose brother Bob's been. -- like of those troops and I heard Harry James van that was an early favorite. -- mayor Benny Benny Goodman -- loved. I still just enough. She's still a favorite a year big bands in your play him in the -- but …”

“…same woman. It is days playing six in his own versions of Leonard Bernstein's show tune. Lucky to be -- which he had recorded for me on my piano as theme music for television show. First …”

Obama’s Lincoln: The Writer and the Imperial Crisis

Obama’s Lincoln: The Writer and the Imperial Crisis

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Fred Kaplan. (66 minutes, 30 mb mp3) Presidential reading: Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln Fred Kaplan’s new biography of Abraham Lincoln, the writer, the “Mark Twain of our politics,” leaves no doubt that the log-cabin president who freed the slaves and saved the Union would stand in any event with the literary [...]

Audio|Thu, 12 Feb 2009
|United Statesfound at58:16, 0:20

“…they say it's so obvious but it never noticed it that. In Barack Obama's famous Boston speech in 4 he -- it would not reds. We're not red states and blue states where the United States of America Lincoln of course guide for the union just comes directly out of. …”

“…whose presidential pros still crackled through every storm. Here is three presidential Barack Obama speaking Lincoln's words. In Aaron Copeland Lincoln portrait. But the Chicago Symphony. …”

The Palestinian Who Knows (or Knew) the President

The Palestinian Who Knows (or Knew) the President

Rashid Khalidi’s most promising remembrance of his friend Barack Obama is only obliquely political. On a University of Chicago tennis court about a decade ago, when Khalidi’s regular game didn’t show, he asked law professor Obama if he played, and wanted to fill in. Naw, Obama said, he wasn’t a tennis player; had [...]

Audio|Wed, 11 Feb 2009
|Middle Eastfound at8:47, 7:27

“…In terms of the Middle East. . Well we're in the post colonial era were the post Cold War -- and those things affect them at least in specific questions. Foam -- an -- in an era of American hegemony which for awhile appeared unfettered and it should be clear to everybody that there's no such thing as unfettered hegemony or unchallenged hegemony. Com. We're in an era where the Middle East is in a peculiar. And particular situation because with a couple of exceptions. It is outside of a trend which you see …”

“…politics always life my dad worked in -- nation's. Worked in the Security Council and so you know I've been following this issue since I was old enough to understand what was going on. -- and …”

Barack Obama: What Kind of Insider? Brown Bag (V)

Barack Obama: What Kind of Insider? Brown Bag (V)

Glenn Loury shares an intimate sort of rumination here on who Barack Hussein Obama really is — or who he will turn out to have been. What will small things, like the choice of the Sidwell Friends School for Sasha and Malia, or big things like the war in Afghanistan, end up telling us [...]

Audio|Tue, 10 Feb 2009
|Middle Eastfound at26:38, 1:57

“…Welcome race for the United States of America and I talked about zionism. That they have clear issues and they have their period -- and they would do with they're going to do about the urgent. Time of the United States of America until about justice in the -- talking about what citing history that we stand. I'm talking about. The ideological underpinnings for posture vis a -- that problem in the Middle East. . -- is it neo colonial is it racist talking about the ideological underpinnings for our -- Every time somebody -- sentence. Only democracy in the Middle East every time somebody says special relationship. They're making profound. Ethical statements. About the meaning of the American. It's not talking both sides …”

“…for good and Italy in the world. The symbolic leader of the United States of America. The head of state closed the ceremony and pop that goes along with this is. Relatively young African American man and that is stunning. Him he's fat. So -- that. But I tell you are -- For the black trip prophetic tradition and I'm skeptical. About the connection of the president of the United States who runs an African American to that tradition not as a manner as a Christian. But in the office. And with the …”

Chafee Chides Obama on Gaza: Brown Bag (IV)

Chafee Chides Obama on Gaza: Brown Bag (IV)

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Lincoln Chafee at the Watson Institute, January 29, 2009. (13 minutes, 6 mb mp3) Lincoln Chafee: peace first I wouldn’t call Lincoln Chafee child-like, but he does have the penetrating eye of the innocent kid who sees through magicians’ tricks — who speaks up about what emperors are wearing, or [...]

Audio|Tue, 3 Feb 2009
|United States of Americafound at1:15, 2:59

“…surplus and a -- relatively peaceful world in which the countries look United States of America for leadership. And moral authority and that's been squandered so I think that's the biggest repair work that needs to be done right now them restore credibility. Restore the respect. That the Americans can -- charter moral course. For the world. In humble way is the president is presently the candidate George W. . Bush as governor of Texas promised him as a candidate in two in the elections of 2000 to have a humble foreign policy. …”

“…was that's what galvanized I -- same thing in 4 with deep. Howard Dean was able to get momentum because he's fervently against the the war warned that happened in the immorality of and so much …”

Obama Channels John F. Kennedy: Brown Bag (III)

Obama Channels John F. Kennedy: Brown Bag (III)

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with James Blight at the Watson Institute, January 29, 2009. (25 minutes, 12 mb mp3) James Blight: “…don’t believe them.” Revisionist Cold War historian James Blight — the scholar behind Errol Morris’ “Fog of War” documentary with Robert McNamara — drops a resonant thought I’d never considered: that every day of [...]

Audio|Mon, 2 Feb 2009
|White House officialfound at23:06, 0:12

“…in Argentina international conference he said. You've met with Che Guevara you're White House official and you met with Che Guevara he said and and Goodman tells us in his memoirs said. Yeah right I -- mission he said. Well it depends on where the running the good cigars -- that's one thing and secondly. What did you say. Here's an American official who found the way he can. Kennedy wouldn't. He knew what Kennedy -- now an American a White House official is meeting with the most radical. Anti American revolutionary probably on the face of the earth at that moment. And their shares …”

“…attitude we call it this one in the opening days of the Barack Obama presidency. . Is more of the rolling Brown University seminar on this pregnant moment. Camelot to Obama lot. Impossibly great expectations and high anxiety …”

Obama and the Prophetic Tradition: Brown Bag (II)

Obama and the Prophetic Tradition: Brown Bag (II)

Barack Obama’s connection to the “black prophetic tradition” is the open question here in conversation with Anthony Bogues, the Jamaica-born chairman of Africana Studies at Brown. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Anthony Bogues. (24 minutes, 11 mb mp3) Anthony Bogues: the lifting of a veil In breaking through the skin-color barrier in American politics, [...]

Audio|Fri, 30 Jan 2009
|United Statesfound at5:04, 2:31

“…what office core values. Is -- restoration and if you wish. -- United States politicos spoke with consistently politics United States to some form of liberal constitution. I think that's that's what drives -- Guantanamo. And that's what drives and I think to …”

“…War widows and did you -- profited. And doing things like costs free education and it's such heroics and I'm performance on a contradict those who but it was very much about them to a problem …”

The Age of Obama: Ten Days In: The Brown Bag (I)

The Age of Obama: Ten Days In: The Brown Bag (I)

Ten days into the “long now” of President Barack Obama, we’re embarked on an unsystematic series of conversations about the man and what feels more like music than politics. The philosophical text in this exchange is from Frank Sinatra, as quoted by Bono the other day in “Notes from the Chairman” in the New [...]

Audio|Thu, 29 Jan 2009
|South Americafound at19:17, 4:05

“…to have terrorists and addictions in the drug trade in Latin and South America when we see. Do we under the -- drug interdiction under the guise of security. So we have terrorism now drug dealers are terrorists. So we not only looking at an addiction in Latin and South America but also the Caribbean it. But this hasn't come up for conversation because we feel good that. And Obama makes us feel …”

“…to do with empire and the way course -- but. Also would Edmund Burke called empire circumstance in some ways that trumps all other imperial intentions that. The now means you have to deal with not …”

“Our Father…” Thank you, John Updike

“Our Father…” Thank you, John Updike

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with John Updike from December 4, 2000. (50 minutes, 23 mb mp3) John Updike [Nubar Alexanian for NPR] John Updike had every kind of grace about him, including for me an aura of divine blessing. I liked his religious inquiries better than the [...]

Audio|Wed, 28 Jan 2009
|high schoolfound at30:06, 1:40

“…he was a senior I should when she was a sophomore so high school they were not dates that -- not there were not an item. She let her boyfriend and you you can junior year high school during -- …”

“…her first appearance at age 39. Did you know rabbit in your high school in your marriage and your dreams. Make the -- connection with John -- at 1804238255. Or join us online connection dot -- …”