Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Real Questions for the Realist

Posted April 14, 2022 • 00:51:06

Twenty questions this hour on the war in Ukraine. For starters: will the war end in April? May? Maybe June? Who gets to announce the good news? An essay...

War in Yemen

Posted April 7, 2022 • 00:50:37

We’re engulfed by war, rumors of war, videos of war, crimes of war—are we looking at ‘end times’ approaching? Or just the dead end of the forever...

Moral Realism

Posted March 31, 2022 • 00:50:17

The war questions are back, you notice—in everyday America: the talk of risk, the chance of ruin, the push and pull of righteousness, restraint; and...

How to Stop Burning Things

Posted March 24, 2022 • 00:50:51

When Bill McKibben looks at the war in Ukraine, what he sees is a chapter, maybe the very last one, in the chronicle of a planet that we humans are...

Lessons Learned

Posted March 17, 2022 • 00:50:12

Big lessons out of the war in Ukraine about “how the world really works” are showing up on the ground, not in theory class. They’re what you can...