Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Farewell Tour

Posted October 4, 2018 • 00:50:11

TDS is the acronym. Trump Derangement Syndrome is the full name: a distaste for Donald Trump so severe that sufferers abandon all logic and reason,...

A Less Perfect Union

Posted September 27, 2018 • 00:49:53

“What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare’s phrase from “The Tempest,” is carved in stone in front of the National Archive in Washington. Ronald...

Original Sin

Posted September 20, 2018 • 00:50:12

The Roman Catholic Church is staring transfixed at a cascading scandal of crime and non-punishment. Sex crimes by priests against children are turning...

Molly Crabapple’s Cosmopolitan Colors

Posted June 27, 2018 • 00:15:55

Listen fast, podcast people, because the beloved artist-satirist-global muckraker Molly Crabapple talks fast, the same way she draws and paints a sort...

Two Guys Walk Into a Summit in Singapore

Posted June 14, 2018 • 00:49:54

From “fire and fury” to a “terrific relationship” in less than a year sound like a happy turn in the Trump-Kim dance around nukes and North...