Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics

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Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Episodes (50)

Thu Feb 19th Bernie’s Journey
Thu Feb 5th George Saunders on Life and the Afterlife
Jan 22nd Pico Supreme

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Feb 19, 2026
51½ minutes
35 MB

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 again in 2020. Our guest, Dan Chiasson, is the poet who braided the several stories here of a man—and his city, and his state, and his nation—into a big book called Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician. Dan Chiasson with Chris. It’s a masterpiece, full of surprises—the best I’ve read on the power game in...

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Bernie’s Journey

Christopher Lydon

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