Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon

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Booking Overview

An ideas-and-politics program hosted by Christopher Lydon, centered on arts, political thought, and cultural history. It’s a strong fit for PR teams promoting authors, artists, and scholars who want thoughtful, substantive audience engagement.

Metrics

Episodes: 50

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Christopher Lydon - Christopher Lydon is a longtime radio host and interviewer known for probing arts, ideas, and politics with an emphasis on thoughtful context. The show’s focus suggests he gravitates toward writers...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Authors, artists, historians, cultural scholars, and public intellectuals with published work (books/essays) tied to arts, political theory, cultural history, or public policy themes.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or major credited works in arts/culture or history of ideas, Notable media presence through interviews, essays, or public-facing scholarship, Awards or institutional affiliations in arts/humanities are helpful but not strictly required

Recent Guest Discussions

Molly Crabapple - Jewish Labour Bund; Yiddish Socialism; Cultural/political History; Reanimation Of Historical Movements Through Art

Ben Tarnoff - Musk-ism; Money And Ideology; Political/intellectual History Framing Of Contemporary Power

Quinn Slobodian - Musk-ism As Cultural/economic Ideology; History Of Ideas; Political Economy

Recent Topics

Politics, Art, History, Religion, Economics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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America’s Orwell

June 11, 2026

We’re unearthing a model writer for an anxious America. Dwight Macdonald was his own eccentric voice through the Cold War politics and culture of the 1950s and 60s. He was a peacenik at heart, otherwise ... The post America’s Orwell appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

Here Where We Live Is Our Country

May 29, 2026

We’re entranced in Molly Crabapple’s reanimation of the Jewish Labour Bund in Europe and Russia, of a century ago. Yiddish Socialism was a nickname. You could plausibly describe that old Bund as forgotten but not ... The post Here Where We Live Is Our Country appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

May 14, 2026

We’re talking about the new magic of money, or Musk-ism, as our guests call it. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff are historians of different sorts—historians of the future. Oddly enough, their hair-raising new book is ... The post Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

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