Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Susan Faludi: My Father, The Woman

Posted June 16, 2016 • 00:32:57

We’re really feeling the fault lines of human identity in 2016: the vexed questions of who we are, who we aren’t, and who we’d like to be. The...

American Hearts and Minds

Posted June 9, 2016 • 00:47:41

With the presidential primaries practically over, let’s take a moment on the psychiatrist’s couch, with an eye on the health of American hearts...

The Greatest, After All

Posted June 4, 2016 •

Turns out, he was right about almost everything, ahead of time, on Sonny Liston, the Vietnam War, black grandeur, his own singular majesty. Wrong only,...

Sex and Safety on Campus

Posted June 2, 2016 • 00:49:56

For decades now, we’ve worried about an epidemic of sexual assault and un-safety at American colleges and universities.But there’s a question of...

Democracy In The Dumps

Posted May 26, 2016 • 00:50:47

In 1989, the political theorist Francis Fukuyama pronounced that liberal democracy, on the American model, as the inevitable finish line of political...