Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

The Locker-Room Election

Posted October 13, 2016 • 00:50:01

Donald Trump’s gross behavior towards women has been self-evident for years. Even The Donald himself, seen in this Howard Stern video from 2006, agrees...

The Cyber

Posted October 6, 2016 • 00:49:58

Can a secret still be a secret if everybody knows about it?Top brass US intelligence officials, including former NSA director General Michael Hayden,...

‘Secular Rapture’: Trump and the American Dispossessed

Posted September 29, 2016 • 00:49:48

Working-class whites are now the reigning champs of pessimism in America. No other group of working-class Americans — Black, Hispanic, or Asian...

Revenge of the 90s

Posted September 21, 2016 • 00:52:30

If all elections are about the future, why does this one come with so much baggage from our political and cultural past?It was in the misfit decade...

What Would Keynes Do?

Posted September 15, 2016 • 00:49:54

This election has been about everything but the economy, stupid (according to John Harwood of The New York Times). Americans are split right down the...