Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Political Football

Posted July 18, 2024 • 00:50:24

In the strangeness of mid-summer 2024, the cosmopolitan novelist Joseph O’Neill is our bridge between the Republican convention in Milwaukee and the...

American Bloods

Posted July 3, 2024 • 00:35:47

In a forlorn Fourth of July week, in the pit of an unpresidential, anti-presidential campaign year, 2024, we welcome back John Kaag, who writes history...

The Zionism Riddle

Posted June 20, 2024 •

Zionism has been the question that keeps changing. Once it was: “How to build a safe home for the Jews of the world?” Today it’s more nearly:...

Chasing Beauty

Posted June 6, 2024 •

We’re on a hometown spree along the famous Fenway in the heart of Boston. Fenway Park is where the Red Sox play, John Updike’s “lyric little bandbox...

Nicholson Baker Finds a Likeness

Posted May 23, 2024 • 00:46:10

We’re taking a drawing lesson with Nicholson Baker—yes, the multifarious writers’ writer Nick Baker; the COVID lab leak detective; the...