Show overview
Podcast Archives - Open Source with Christopher Lydon has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 60 episodes. That works out to roughly 40 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 37 min and 47 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Arts show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Christopher Lydon.
From the publisher
Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics
Latest Episodes
View all 60 episodesVoice of a Century
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
The World’s Sport
After the Fireworks
The Boston Watch Party
America’s Orwell
Here Where We Live Is Our Country
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
The Pope and the President
Kings and Pawns
Thoreau Meets ICE
In 1854, when the escaped slave Anthony Burns was captured in Boston and returned in chains to slave-owners in Virginia, despite riotous resistance on the dock in Boston, Henry David Thoreau himself was shattered. Lewis ... The post Thoreau Meets ICE appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
Fear and Fury
Who remembers Bernie Goetz? Who remembers his victims? Or was Bernie Goetz the victim—the subway shooter who, back in 1984, fired at four black teenagers in a crowded subway car in Manhattan because he felt ... The post Fear and Fury appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
Hit-and-Run Belligerence
How should we see the Israeli-American War on Iran? How should we understand it, or maybe even escape it? The writer and historian Daniel Immerwahr is our guest, with the essential qualifications, starting with his ... The post Hit-and-Run Belligerence appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
Sleepwalking into World War III
I must say, among all the wise people commenting on this world’s situation, I honor Jeffrey Sachs especially for being relentless on the dangers out there, going back to the Biden years. Jeffrey Sachs. He ... The post Sleepwalking into World War III appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
War with Iran
We’re sorting puzzle pieces from the opening rounds of war with Iran. The U.S. and Israel started it. The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic in Iran was among the first to die in it, ... The post War with Iran appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
Bernie’s Journey
We’re tracking the Bernie Sanders story from a Brooklyn boyhood to the Green Mountain socialism that he implanted in Vermont, and then to his two offbeat campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination: in 2016, and ... The post Bernie’s Journey appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
George Saunders on Life and the Afterlife
We’re going off script out here in the afterlife, in the imagination of the triple-threat novelist George Saunders. He’s eminent as a writer of stories and novels, as a critical reader, and as a teacher ... The post George Saunders on Life and the Afterlife appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
Pico Supreme
Pico Iyer is the global citizen and now, inadvertently, the movie star—in the winter’s hot movie, Marty Supreme. Across a hundred conversations over the years, we thought we knew everything about him, the transcendentalist Buddhist ... The post Pico Supreme appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
Age of Hemispheric Empires
We’re getting our heads around the invasion of Venezuela and what feels like a rough new rule book for the so-called world order. Cue Greg Grandin, the hemispheric historian who wrote that big book America, ... The post Age of Hemispheric Empires appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
A Thousand Years of Capitalism
We’re talking about capitalism this time, trying to reckon the power of big money to shape—even rule—the human species. Capitalism is the one-word name given to a thousand-year-old force. It’s not a science or doctrine ... The post A Thousand Years of Capitalism appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.