Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Occupied America

Posted July 10, 2025 • 00:40:03

We’re in Saratoga, New York, with the soulful American believer Marilynne Robinson, prize novelist and teacher of novelists. She’s known over the...

Trump at War

Posted June 26, 2025 • 00:46:55

We’re in the Orwellian aftermath of what President Trump has called his 12-day war in the Middle East. It’s over, he proclaimed on Monday. “Congratulations...

Divided, Defensive Democracy

Posted June 19, 2025 • 00:48:29

This week, it’s a conversation on the democracy question and the embattled fate of our own, beset as it is from within. Philosopher-historian Danielle...

The Last Supper

Posted June 5, 2025 • 00:41:24

We’re with the writer Paul Elie, recalling the moment when popular culture came to sound like public prayer. There was Madonna in 1989, singing her...

Capitalism and Its Critics

Posted May 15, 2025 • 00:43:56

We’re staring down the several crises in our economy—and recalling the grand old joke that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the...