Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything

Not All Propaganda is Art 9: Freedom or Death

ToE's Cultural Cold War miniseries concludes with three stories about containment and death....

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Not All Propaganda is Art 8: Signature Acoustique

 Richard Wright died from a mysterious illness on November 28th, 1960. Or was he murdered? Tune...

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Not All Propaganda is Art 7: Manufacturing Dissent

In 1959, Anti-Americanism surged in the UK. England seethed over America’s treatment of its Prime...

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Not All Propaganda is Art 6: The Kitsch Debate

In the summer of 1959, Nixon and Khrushchev argued over a washing machine in a backstage kitchen...

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Not All Propaganda is Art 5: The Play's the Thing

In the fall of 1958, Kenneth Tynan moved from London to New York and upon arrival, clashed with...

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Not All Propaganda is Art 4: Propagande Noire

In 1956, Richard Wright spoke of islands of free men at the first Congress of Black Writers and...

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Not All Propaganda is Art 3: The Man Who Was Thursday's Children

In 1956 London Theater critic Kenneth Tynan helped launch a youth movement committed to exposing...

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Not All Propaganda is Art 2: Outsider Influence

In 1956, New Yorker writer Dwight Macdonald joined Encounter, a magazine secretly backed by...

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Not All Propaganda is Art BONUS CONTENT TRAILER: Propaganda Notes and Sources

The new ToE series Propaganda is Art has a companion podcast called Propaganda Notes & Sources,...

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Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger Brother

In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. We meet...

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Wrong Way with Joanne McNeil

One of my favorite technology critics has just published a novel about Self Driving Cars (or fake...

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The Hank Show (when computers are right)

Today we live inside data systems that contain, surveil, and judge us. In his new book, the Hank...

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Too good to be true remix

Two very different tales about making stuff up about the CIA. Your host shares the story of...

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Second time as forced (500daysplus)

Citizens armed only with Molotov cocktails battle with Russian tanks on the streets of… Budapest....

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Outsider Studies: Connie Converse

The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length sad...

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How to look at America

We hear from two photographers who are masters at showing us what is hard to see, and always has...

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Venice (Ukraine redux)

The war/invasion/fighting is still going. We revisit our program on NFTs, art and war. Your host...

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Reality is that which, when you stop laughing at it, doesn't go away (false alarm Elon Musk 4202023 remix)

One of the episodes in my False Alarm! Series from 2018 imagined a future where Elon Musk stepped...

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False Alarm! (Stormy Daniels 2023 Appreciation remix)

Back in 2018 your host met Stormy Daniels as part of his 15 part investigation into America’s...

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How to tell the truth about lies (complete)

A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year:  Journalists may...

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