Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Midterm Scorecard

Posted November 8, 2018 • 00:50:09

A conversation with David Bromwich, Jill Lepore, David Bosworth, Briahna Gray, and Mark Blyth. The political armies, red and blue, both won tough battles...

Whitey, We Hardly Knew Ye

Posted November 1, 2018 • 00:49:56

A conversation with Howie Carr, David Boeri, and Richard Marinick. Jimmy Bulger, known as Whitey, was a nasty curse on the old Irish urban village of...

Trouble in the House of Saud

Posted October 25, 2018 • 00:50:12

A conversation with Stephen Kinzer, Sarah Leah Whitson, Steve Simon, Chas Freeman, and Shireen Al-Adeimi. Speaking of Saudi Arabia, in the ghastly light...

Behind the “Leonine Gaze” of Frederick Douglass

Posted October 18, 2018 • 00:49:58

Historian David Blight on his new biography of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass, scarred and tormented seeing men made slaves, set the course...

Hothouse Earth

Posted October 11, 2018 • 00:50:13

A conversation with Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, environmental policy expert Adil Najam, and social and political theorist Ajay Singh Chaudhary. We’re...