Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Viral Inequality

Posted April 9, 2020 • 00:50:22

The curve of the coronavirus is bending. Just in the awful American swath of the grim COVID reaper, we have entered peak season with some flattening...

The Pandemic’s Path

Posted April 2, 2020 • 00:50:21

How did it happen? And who’s accountable? Seems now a lot of people saw it coming. Stephen King wrote his viral bestseller The Stand 30 years ago;...

Profits or People

Posted March 26, 2020 • 00:50:19

Week 4 was when dollar signs kept turning up, and up, astonishingly: price-tags on the virus’s damage, price-tags on fighting it. The bailout of bailouts...

Springtime in the Plague Year

Posted March 19, 2020 • 00:51:46

It’s the virus’s world. We just live in it: isolated, locked down for the duration, sheltering in place, with an alternate risk of cabin fever....

Contagious Crisis

Posted March 12, 2020 • 00:49:53

Our journals of the plague year start this week. Coronavirus went pandemic, and the investors’ bull market turned free-falling bear. In the conversation...