This week: a conversation with Robert Pogue Harrison and Ana Ilievska about artificial intelligence and the humanities. Find the show at our site or wherever you go for podcasts. “What worries me above all,” says Stanford humanist Robert Pogue Harrison on this week’s show, “is not artificial intelligence.” The scarier…

This week: a conversation with the cartoonist Ed Koren on life and cartoons. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts. The great cartoonist Ed Koren—whose warm humor and hairy creations you know from his 60-year run in The New Yorker—died this month at 87. It’s a…

In the past month, we’ve made two shows on heroes—specifically, on William James and Sonny Rollins—that should not be missed. Find them at our site, or wherever you go for podcasts! Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins’s biographer Aidan Levy—author of Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins—introduces our listeners to a…

Open Source has returned with shows on fiction, politics, family, and more. Here’s our recap of the year so far—as always, you can find us wherever you go for podcasts or at our site! Thank You, Patrick Lydon

This week: conversations with Nina Khruscheva, Jeffrey Sachs, Anatol Lieven, and Andrew Bacevich about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Listen today at 2 pm or anytime at our site. This week, Open Source hears again the argument that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked by the United States’ conflict with Russia…

This week: a conversation with Kaiser Kuo and Jing Tsu about the culture of US-China tensions. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our website. Last week, we considered the regime-level tensions between the US and China; this week, we think about the culture, the people, the unofficial dynamics…

This week: conversations with Kevin Rudd, Paul Heer, and David Kang about the US-China relationship. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our website. In late May, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called China “the most serious long-term challenge to the international order.” That challenge, as Blinken described it…

This week: a conversation with Cornel West and David Bromwich, in search of wisdom. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our site. In a time of violence and confusion, we’re looking for wisdom this week with the philosopher Cornel West and the literary scholar David Bromwich. Did we…

If you’ve been following In Search of Monsters, our limited-series collaboration with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, you’ve heard all kinds of conversation on the sorrows of empire. The series came about in a time of sorrow, too. As Russia invaded Ukraine, we focused on the moral, political, and…