Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

The CIA’s Covert Chemist

Posted September 30, 2019 • 00:37:13

We’re at home with Stephen Kinzer, the longtime reporter of secret U.S. operations in books like Overthrow and All the Shah’s Men. In a new...

Tech-Master Disaster: Part Three

Posted September 26, 2019 • 00:50:24

Take a walk through Kendall Square, Cambridge, this hour. It’s the Emerald City of biotechnology—as magical/mysterious as the Land of Oz, but it’s...

Tech-Master Disaster: Part Two

Posted September 19, 2019 • 00:49:59

It took the late, notorious Jeffrey Epstein to force the conversation, but now MIT can’t stop talking about what money is too dirty to take in the...

Tech-Master Disaster: Part One

Posted September 12, 2019 • 00:50:25

The late Jeffrey Epstein stands for at least three levels of mystery: the man himself, a boastful sex offender, convicted of preying on under-age women;...

Pick Your Populism

Posted September 5, 2019 • 00:50:23

Mark Blyth is that noisy wise-guy on speed in our portable Glasgow pub, and he’s locating our anxieties about a world at sea. Where we’re at, he...