Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

George Saunders in the Afterlife

Posted February 28, 2017 • 00:31:39

The story master George Saunders is widely revered as the nicest guy in the writing game, but it’s sweeter and deeper than that. I met him in the...

Return of the Prophet: Baldwin in the 21st Century

Posted February 23, 2017 • 00:52:05

James Baldwin was the prophetic voice of an era that isn’t over. Fifty years ago, he was a young, bug-eyed man from Harlem who wrote, in essays...

The Fog of Trump

Posted February 16, 2017 • 00:50:42

Should Donald Trump have spelled it out that what he really had in mind for Washington was regime-change? The darkest truth about the squalling Trump...

Going Nativist

Posted February 9, 2017 • 00:50:06

The battle over the travel ban echoes our history from the founding, slicing deep into the heart of American sympathies: Are refugees and migrants...

Stephen Kinzer: America’s Empire State of Mind

Posted February 7, 2017 • 00:35:02

Why are we everywhere in the world, so often with guns drawn? The provocative reporter Stephen Kinzer has covered a number of our “regime-change”...