Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

The Age of Illusions

Posted January 30, 2020 • 00:50:21

Soldier and citizen, Andrew Bacevich is the overqualified expert who turns the standard take on our distress inside out. It’s not President Trump...

Greta Gerwig Meets Louisa May Alcott

Posted January 23, 2020 • 00:49:59

In the Oscar-excitement around the new Little Women, director Greta Gerwig has a note for all of us: her hero at the party is still the woman who wrote...

The Costs of War

Posted January 16, 2020 • 00:50:23

A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there — pretty soon, as the man said, you’re talking real money. But you’re not even close to counting...

2020 Hindsight on Iraq

Posted January 9, 2020 • 00:49:56

We have a formal stand-down, meaning no war this week, between the US and Iran. On the long horizon of empires, rising and falling, it looks like an...

The Inimitable Johnny Hodges

Posted January 2, 2020 • 00:50:25

There’s a big difference between the two greatest jazz stars on the alto horn. Charlie Parker had imitators without number; Johnny Hodges was simply...