Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

The Hard Work of Organizing

Posted July 24, 2025 • 00:47:56

We’re retracing our steps out of the last bad-dream era in American life. Michael Ansara was in the thick of that struggle too, around war and justice....

Occupied America

Posted July 10, 2025 • 00:40:03

We’re in Saratoga, New York, with the soulful American believer Marilynne Robinson, prize novelist and teacher of novelists. She’s known over the...

Trump at War

Posted June 26, 2025 • 00:46:55

We’re in the Orwellian aftermath of what President Trump has called his 12-day war in the Middle East. It’s over, he proclaimed on Monday. “Congratulations...

Divided, Defensive Democracy

Posted June 19, 2025 • 00:48:29

This week, it’s a conversation on the democracy question and the embattled fate of our own, beset as it is from within. Philosopher-historian Danielle...

The Last Supper

Posted June 5, 2025 • 00:41:24

We’re with the writer Paul Elie, recalling the moment when popular culture came to sound like public prayer. There was Madonna in 1989, singing her...