Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Capitalism and Its Critics

Posted May 15, 2025 • 00:43:56

We’re staring down the several crises in our economy—and recalling the grand old joke that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the...

Trade, Trumped

Posted May 8, 2025 • 00:38:18

We’re staring down the global trade war with Mark Blyth at Brown University. He is the People’s Economist from Scotland, who takes us home to his...

Gatsby at 100: Fitzgerald’s Warning about Trumpism

Posted May 1, 2025 • 00:47:32

We have a key, finally, to the mystery of Donald Trump and where he came from. He was born almost exactly 100 years ago in the imagination of the novelist...

Miracles and Wonder

Posted April 17, 2025 • 00:44:31

We’re considering the Jesus story with the historian Elaine Pagels. Her new book is a marvel, crowning a lifetime of bestselling scholarship, sifting...

Trump vs. Harvard

Posted April 10, 2025 • 00:48:56

We’re tracking President Trump’s squeeze on higher education, and the argument in the Ivy League: whether or not to make a fight of it. First, Columbia...