Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Kings and Pawns

Posted April 15, 2026 • 00:47:07

It’s Jackie Robinson Day, 2026, when every player in Major League Baseball wears the immortal Dodger’s number 42. Listeners, if you think you know...

Thoreau Meets ICE

Posted April 2, 2026 • 00:40:52

In 1854, when the escaped slave Anthony Burns was captured in Boston and returned in chains to slave-owners in Virginia, despite riotous resistance...

Fear and Fury

Posted March 26, 2026 • 00:38:15

Who remembers Bernie Goetz? Who remembers his victims? Or was Bernie Goetz the victim—the subway shooter who, back in 1984, fired at four black teenagers...

Hit-and-Run Belligerence

Posted March 19, 2026 • 00:35:15

How should we see the Israeli-American War on Iran? How should we understand it, or maybe even escape it? The writer and historian Daniel Immerwahr...

Sleepwalking into World War III

Posted March 10, 2026 • 00:37:28

I must say, among all the wise people commenting on this world’s situation, I honor Jeffrey Sachs especially for being relentless on the dangers out...