Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

The Algorithmic Age

Posted February 8, 2018 • 00:49:56

Behold the Almighty Algorithm, a snippet of computer code coming to stand for a Higher Authority in our secular age, a sort of god. Algorithms are provoking...

Remembering Philip Roth

Posted June 21, 2017 • 00:49:58

Our long, gabby afternoon with Philip Roth in 2006, at his farmhouse in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut, was a sort of pay-off. I’d helped him find just...

Something’s Happening Here

Posted June 15, 2017 • 00:49:49

In the first summer of Trump, 2017, there’s something happening and it feels bigger than the Comey hearings, even Russia-gate. Who knew that a British...

The Chomsky Effect With Robert Barsky

Posted June 8, 2017 • 00:18:28

Noam Chomsky had two giant careers: one in the science of language, another in the rough and tumble of anti-war politics, beckoning the question is...

American Socrates: The Life and Mind of Noam Chomsky

Posted June 1, 2017 • 00:49:55

Noam Chomsky for 50 years has been America’s Socrates, our public pest with questions that sting … not the city-square of Athens but a vast global...