Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Our Borders, Our Selves

Posted April 22, 2016 • 00:50:11

What makes a border in 2016? And how is it, on an earth supposedly flattened by free markets and liberal values, that the walls around us seem...

Neoliberalism and Postcapitalism

Posted April 14, 2016 • 00:51:04

This year’s American electoral shakeup sends us looking for deeper economic tremors. Unemployment is down to 4.9%, even as discouraged workers are...

John Luther Adams: Music at the End of the World

Posted April 8, 2016 • 00:50:21

John Luther Adams is our gentle wood thrush in this conversation. He’s bracing us with the mystery that humbled him on first hearing the ecstatic...

Syria: The 21st-Century Disaster

Posted March 31, 2016 • 00:49:59

Syria may be the essential 21st-century mess.Our guests, Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami have just published Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution...

Weimar America?

Posted March 24, 2016 • 00:49:55

Pundits from Glenn Beck to Roger Cohen and Chris Hedges have one other discouraged democracy on their minds this election year.They’re thinking...