Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Thoroughly Modern Mozart

This show first aired on September 30, 2021.

Who else could be said to make you smarter, just listening to the sound of his music? Only Mozart,...

Prudent Statecraft

John Quincy Adams was the model president in the early republic who declared that the United States “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”...

The Maelstrom of Geopolitics

A briefing session this hour from our strategic special branch, which is to say: the mind of Chas Freeman in the maelstrom of geopolitics. If President...

Silent Spring, 60 Years Later

How’s to rescue the Earth from us people? Rachel Carson’s way – 60 years ago – was to write a book, and call it Silent Spring. She’d...

Origin Stories

This show was originally broadcast on December 5, 2019.

Origin stories can be educated guesses, or leaps of collective imagination as...