Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Stephen Kotkin: Who’s Bigger Than Stalin?

Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin has taken on the most important biography he can imagine: the life, rise and thirty-year reign of Josef Stalin....

Back in the U.S.S.R.

The Berlin Wall came down twenty five years ago this week — kicking off the collapse of the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War chapter of world...

Cornel West’s View From Ferguson

The orator, activist and scholar Cornel West is summoning brave voices of black leadership from our past in his new book,

The Big-Money Midterm

The news from the big-money midterm is: meh!

Democrats are out, the Republicans...

Jill Lepore: The Feminist and the Superhero

The Harvard historian Jill Lepore – prolific, impish, a super-mom, politically engaged and still professorial – is giving us the kinky...