Open Source with Christopher Lydon

[Thanks to duplicity for suggesting this show.] Chelsea noted in her post for Marcia Angell on Big Pharma last week that we were were thinking about a whole series on...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Thanks to Nick and Ben for pitching Bernd Heinrich as a guest.] In the literary pantheon of bug biologists, make room...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Thanks to Luigino Valentin for suggesting this show] On Janury 22, 1968, a young Ralph Nader, clad in a suit of...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Have we mentioned that Chelsea is living off of the 21 dollar a week food stamp diet? She’s two weeks into...

Thanks to Andrew Kinney, patsyb, and Sutter for suggesting another “literary lessons for Iraq” show. Read The Plague this weekend, and help us milk Camus’s metaphor for our own pestilential...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) To the sometimes solemn literary cottage-industry of neo-atheism, Christopher Hitchens — with his manifesto: God is not Great: How Religion Poisons...

We got an irresistible pitch from tbrucia a few weeks ago: Today’s NYT website features an article: U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart (registration req.). What about a...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Thanks to scottbenbow for pitching this show.] The Reading Room at the British Museum in London is another one of my...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Thanks to Alexandre Enkerli for pitching this show. It will record at 5:00 pm Eastern to accomodate overseas guests.] The wild...

[Thanks to AJD for pitching this one.] Scanning for snipers in Ghazaliya, Iraq [soldiersmediacenter / Flickr] How do you train young Americans to be ready to kill in war? The...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) We’ve decided to scrap tonight’s planned show (about language post-Imus) in favor of a show about the visual reverberations of the...

[Since we ended up covering many of these issues on our Ralph Ellison’s America show, we sent this one to the graveyard.] Leave it to nother to channel exactly what...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Thanks to barthjg for pitching this show When I tried to use the curb-side check in [at the airport], I was...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Thanks to nother for pitching this show. Sonny Rollins on New Haven Green, 1999 [M. Reynard / Flickr] Sonny Rollins blew...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Thanks to cmac2012 for pitching this show. You’ve gotta love bees. They make honey. They dance. They inspired “Flight of the...