Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Warrior Cops

Posted June 25, 2020 • 00:50:19

Once upon a time in the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, “community policing” came forth as the solution to a law-and-order problem. In 2020...

Deaths of Despair

Posted June 18, 2020 • 00:50:17

The warning bell sounded in 2014: a down dip in the ever-rising American lifespan, which was 50 years, on average, in 1900, and up close to 80 years...

Inequality and Injustice

Posted June 11, 2020 • 00:50:21

“A Change is Gonna Come,” the songwriter put it: it was Sam Cooke, at a peak of the civil rights movement in 1964. And it is surely coming again,...

Reviving Reconstruction

Posted June 4, 2020 • 00:50:20

We’re transfixed, all of us, looking at a collision of deadly viruses, racial hatred and a pandemic disease. Suddenly what commands attention is the...

Moral Economics

Posted May 28, 2020 • 00:50:22

John Maynard Keynes was a philosophical giant in twentieth-century England. In his day job, he was a public economist; in America he was a political...