Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Colm Tóibín’s Working on his Sentences

Posted November 25, 2015 • 00:36:46

This is provincial Ireland, a place of long winters but not freezing winters. There’s drizzle as much as there’s rain. You’re trying to find a...

What To Do After Paris?

Posted November 18, 2015 • 00:50:02

Once again, France is reeling — after the second major terror attack upon defenseless Paris this year. Eight fighters — all of them young EU citizens...

Black Lives On Campus

Posted November 12, 2015 • 00:49:58

What does the second civil rights movement look like? Is a new struggle for equality, in feelings as well as rights, afoot on American campuses? It...

John Summers on Real Estate and Innovation

Posted November 9, 2015 • 00:22:58

The contrarian John Summers, editor-in-chief of The Baffler magazine, calls the funky old railroad back of MIT "The People's Republic of Zuckerstan,"...

Moneyball For City Hall

Posted November 4, 2015 • 00:50:02

Dan Koh, the new chief of staff to Boston’s mayor, wants city government to work like Brad Pitt’s team in Moneyball. The Oakland A’s broke...