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Open Source is the world’s longest-running podcast. Christopher Lydon circles the big ideas in culture, the arts and politics with the smartest people in the world. It’s the kind of curious, critical, high-energy conversation we’re all missing nowadays.
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American Disorder
The key battle taking place in this American crisis year of 2024 is happening in our heads, according to the master historian Richard Slotkin. He’s here to tell us all that we’re in a 40-year ...
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Lessons from Hannah Arendt
We’re calling on Hannah Arendt for the twenty-first century—could she teach us how to think our way out of the authoritarian nightmare? Arendt wrote the book for all time on Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet ...
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Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets
We’re going to school on Taylor Swift, in the Harvard course. And all we know is, as her song says, we’re enchanted to meet her. Taylor Swift comes out of literature but she’s more than ...
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Of Melville and Marriage
We speak of the mystery of Herman Melville, or the misery of Melville, the American masterpiece man. For Moby-Dick alone, he is our Shakespeare, our Dante—though he fled the writing of prose for the last ...
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Against Despair
The subject, in a word, is despair, both public and private. The poets and spiritual seekers Christian Wiman and his wife Danielle Chapman are back to goad us, each with a new book. Their project ...
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The Rebel’s Clinic
Frantz Fanon is our interest in this podcast. The man had charisma across the board in a short life and a long afterlife. A black man from the Caribbean, he went to France, first as ...
Customer Reviews
Host with the Most
Since On Point days, I’ve known that C. Lydon is a gifted and empathetic moderator. His calling realized to great effect here.
I am gratified he is given space, support and freedom on this platform.
Podcasts can educate…routinely interesting.
It’s TRUE—Open Source w Lydon—one of GREATEST shows/podcasts of all time
I’ve listened to Christopher Lydon’s programs for decades on Public Radio, and on Open Source. Great mind, great topics and ideas, great staff and team, smart, ethical, personable, and relevant. This is the SHOW to listen to. Thank you.
A true treasure
There is no podcast that I enjoy more. There is also not a better podcast available that is so rich with a superbly diverse array of topics and themes. If there is any podcast that makes the world better and more informed, it’s definitely this one.