Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Robert Lowell and the Poetry of a Suffering Mind

Posted April 20, 2017 • 00:49:55

Robert Lowell was the last of his kind: a New England aristocrat of Olympian thunder and civic weight, dead-set from boyhood on artistic greatness,...

An American Sickness

Posted April 13, 2017 • 00:49:54

With Barack out of the White House, Obamacare now looks something like a 7-year-old orphan: the unwanted child of yesterday’s Washington; a needy...

American (De)generations

Posted April 6, 2017 • 00:49:47

Is American history a cyclical thing; a series of concentric circles endlessly repeating? Are its contours defined by temporary revivals of old hopes...

The Russian Riddle

Posted March 30, 2017 • 00:46:30

"Conspiracy thinking is our response to the unimaginable."

A Survivor’s Guide to Tyranny

Posted March 28, 2017 • 00:27:51

Yale historian Timothy Snyder has 20 pills he wants us to take, and keep taking, perhaps to save our country. The stark premise that he laid out for...