Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Nicholson Baker Finds a Likeness

Posted May 23, 2024 • 00:46:10

We’re taking a drawing lesson with Nicholson Baker—yes, the multifarious writers’ writer Nick Baker; the COVID lab leak detective; the...

Campus Uproar

Posted May 9, 2024 • 00:55:19

We’re sampling the uproar rising from American campuses: it’s a full blown, leaderless movement by now, in an established American tradition, but...

American Disorder

Posted April 25, 2024 • 00:42:44

The key battle taking place in this American crisis year of 2024 is happening in our heads, according to the master historian Richard Slotkin. He’s...

Lessons from Hannah Arendt

Posted April 11, 2024 • 00:47:44

We’re calling on Hannah Arendt for the twenty-first century—could she teach us how to think our way out of the authoritarian nightmare? Arendt wrote...

Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets

Posted March 28, 2024 • 00:50:57

We’re going to school on Taylor Swift, in the Harvard course. And all we know is, as her song says, we’re enchanted to meet her. Taylor Swift comes...