Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

An American Classic: “Fat City”

Posted December 22, 2015 • 00:23:20

An Open Source experiment here: Chris Lydon kindly handed off the hosting reins to me for a day, for an interview with Leonard Gardner, author of the...

The Art of Wildness

Posted December 16, 2015 • 00:50:04

The quote, from Henry David Thoreau, often goes: "In wilderness is the preservation of the world." Turns out Thoreau had been misheard. The real line...

Prohibition, Then and Now

Posted December 11, 2015 • 00:50:04

What do we remember about America's thirteen-year war on alcohol at the end of the First World War? Hollywood reminds us of the glamor of both rum-runners...

The New Nativism

Posted December 3, 2015 • 00:50:05

It's been a half century since John F. Kennedy declared this "a nation of immigrants," since his successor Lyndon Johnson threw open the doors to a...

Colm Tóibín’s Working on his Sentences

Posted November 25, 2015 • 00:36:46

This is provincial Ireland, a place of long winters but not freezing winters. There’s drizzle as much as there’s rain. You’re trying to find a...