Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

What Would Keynes Do?

Posted September 15, 2016 • 00:49:54

This election has been about everything but the economy, stupid (according to John Harwood of The New York Times). Americans are split right down the...

Election 2016: Unreality T.V.

Posted September 8, 2016 • 00:49:51

Barack Obama has kept his distance from this campaign, but he did intervene last month to remind Americans that they’re not voting to give someone...

Apocalypse Now?, Part 3: So Far, So Good?

Posted August 18, 2016 • 00:50:00

You can hear the first part of our summer series, “Apocalypse Now?” here, and Part 2 here. We’ve come to the end of the end: our third and final...

Apocalypse Now?, Part 2: A Remade Man

Posted August 11, 2016 • 00:49:56

Our apocalypse series began one week ago with one grim vision of the future. What if our machines managed to take control of their own code? If they...

Apocalypse Now?, Part 1: The Rise of the Machines

Posted August 4, 2016 • 00:49:55

This August, that summer-cinema experience of cataclysm and crash has escaped the theaters and invaded our everyday lives. The panic is real: about...