Open Source with Christopher Lydon

A Jerusalem Tragedy

For our shattering Age of October 7, Nathan Thrall has written a double masterpiece, in my reading. Already a Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction,...

The Climate Story’s Breaking Point

We’re in Climate Week 2024, with the indispensable, independent activist and authority Bill McKibben.

We catch him packing, in Vermont, for...

Bear-Baiting Debating

We’re in our very own post-debate spin room, taking the measure of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and of ourselves, as the voters they were pitching....

The Harris Machine

There’s a puzzle in this podcast, and it comes with our prize sociologist, Tressie McMillan Cottom. It’s roughly this: How does Kamala Harris, after...

In It to the Finish

Cornel West is our guest, the preacher-teacher in a tradition of black prophetic fire, as he puts it, the line of holy anger in American history, and...