Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

A New Nuclear Age

Posted March 10, 2022 • 00:50:13

Sobering questions: how could this unmerciful war in Ukraine go nuclear? If Russia’s barbaric smashing of cities and civilians finally pushes the...

Of Banks and Tanks

Posted March 3, 2022 • 00:56:04

It’s banks against tanks in the Ukraine war that’s now about everything: about the courage of Kyiv, about hope holding on in a horror show, kids...

Russian Invasion

Posted February 24, 2022 • 00:50:48

Make what you can of the news from Ukraine: nobody’s calling it a Seinfeld crisis anymore, meaning a crisis about nothing, with a painless...

A Soldier’s Tale

Posted February 17, 2022 • 00:51:00

This hour: the back-story of In Search of Monsters, our collaboration with the counter-punching think tank, the Quincy Institute....

Nixon in China

Posted February 10, 2022 • 00:51:04

It was the meeting, just 50 years ago this month, that changed more lives at more levels than any other political handshake in our lifetimes. The Trickster...