Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Wagner and Wagnerism

Posted September 17, 2020 • 00:50:15

Richard Wagner, man and musician, was the embodiment of excess—too much of a good thing if you loved him, something worse if you didn’t. Those weren’t...

Look on the Blyth Side

Posted September 10, 2020 • 00:49:54

Mark Blyth is stumped. He’s the people’s economist who speaks the people’s language through his thick working-class Scottish accent. He hasn’t...

The Unmaking of America

Posted August 27, 2020 • 00:50:12

Did you believe the investor Warren Buffett (net worth $80 billion) when he let down his guard a bit and said, “There’s class warfare, all right...

Moby-Dick in 2020

Posted August 20, 2020 • 00:50:11

Here’s why we read Moby-Dick—for the first time? for the eleventh time?— because it’s the Great American Novel about now, in 2020 more than...

American Autocracy

Posted August 6, 2020 • 00:49:58

The late innings of Donald Trump’s four-year campaign in the White House come to look stranger than the big-league baseball season—both of which...