Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon is, a former journalist for the New York Times, an author and is best known for hosting The Connection.

The pariah-to-messiah moment

The Obama Moment in America reminds the Chicago anthropologist John Comaroff of the Mandela Moment in his native South Africa in the early 1990s. The whole world has embraced the

By Christopher Lydon

/ 14 Nov 2008

As others see us: Godfrey Hodgson on the Democrats

Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with openDemocracy author Godfrey Hodgson (39 minutes, 18 mb mp3) When you’ve had enough of the dugout convention chatter on the US cable

By Christopher Lydon

/ 1 Sep 2008

Obama-McCain: the world’s main event

Here’s a first conversational stab at the point that Obama vs. McCain — while it’s not the world’s election — is a world event like no US presidential campaign

By Christopher Lydon

/ 24 Jun 2008

Reggae and the Obama moment

Bob Marley and Barack Obama are the absent heroes of the 8th annual Calabash literary festival in Jamaica: Marley, because his music and poetry incarnate the living “reggae aesthetic” (with

By Christopher Lydon

/ 5 Jun 2008

Glenn Loury: the missing voice of Jeremiah

Are we supposed to be hoping that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s hair-raising 15 minutes of fame are over? The black polymath Glenn Loury and I are puzzling in conversation

By Christopher Lydon

/ 23 May 2008