Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

American Wreckage

Posted October 20, 2016 • 00:50:12

Thomas Paine, Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, Saint Augustine, and Thomas Hobbes all agreed: A house divided against itself cannot stand. In this election...

The Locker-Room Election

Posted October 13, 2016 • 00:50:01

Donald Trump’s gross behavior towards women has been self-evident for years. Even The Donald himself, seen in this Howard Stern video from 2006, agrees...

The Cyber

Posted October 6, 2016 • 00:49:58

Can a secret still be a secret if everybody knows about it?Top brass US intelligence officials, including former NSA director General Michael Hayden,...

‘Secular Rapture’: Trump and the American Dispossessed

Posted September 29, 2016 • 00:49:48

Working-class whites are now the reigning champs of pessimism in America. No other group of working-class Americans — Black, Hispanic, or Asian...

Revenge of the 90s

Posted September 21, 2016 • 00:52:30

If all elections are about the future, why does this one come with so much baggage from our political and cultural past?It was in the misfit decade...