Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Lessons from Nixonland

Posted May 18, 2017 • 00:49:50

Welcome back to Nixonland: After four decades, the Oval Office is once again the seat of empire, occupied by a paranoid pilot hellbent on an unremittingly...

JFK Turns 100

Posted May 11, 2017 • 00:50:30

In John F. Kennedy’s hundredth birthday spring, we’re looking again at the family portrait we all know, by the painter Jamie Wyeth.His canvas...

The ‘Pivot to Asia’ Continued

Posted May 4, 2017 • 00:49:54

What did we learn in Vietnam?

Ian Johnson and the Souls of China

Posted May 3, 2017 • 00:24:37

Ian Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize covering China for the Wall Street Journal–mostly economics–but then discovered what felt like a bigger story:...

Building the People’s Party

Posted April 27, 2017 • 00:49:51

100 days of Donald Trump in the White House, 100 days of Democrats in the wilderness, 100 dumbfounded days of dismay at the New York Times, 100 days...