Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Normalize This!

Posted November 17, 2016 • 00:50:12

Last week, the election of Donald J. Trump came as a thunderclap. This week, the echoes are still ringing in the ears of the American polity. Reports...

Seeing Red in Trump’s America

Posted November 10, 2016 • 00:50:24

So! It happened. Hillary Clinton failed. Donald J. Trump will become the 45th of the United States. His election marks an earthquake in American politics...

Class Conflict

Posted November 3, 2016 • 00:49:58

Here in Massachusetts, in the birthplace of Horace Mann’s free American ‘common school’, an intense battle over charter schools — one with outsized...

‘The Great Derangement’

Posted October 27, 2016 • 00:49:56

The most urgent existential risk facing the world today has received barely a footnote’s worth of attention in this presidential campaign. Over the...

American Wreckage

Posted October 20, 2016 • 00:50:12

Thomas Paine, Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, Saint Augustine, and Thomas Hobbes all agreed: A house divided against itself cannot stand. In this election...