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Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Personally connecting the dots. All of them. Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.
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Feed Drop* You Feeling This (video podcast!)
Hey Dear listener, for years ToE’s Andrew Callaway has talked my ear off about the potential of the Video podcast and he has now put a real one into t...
Influencers (second time as Tragedy)
During the first Trump presidency I produced a radio drama with Jonathan Mitchell at The Truth Podcast about camp MAGA. In 2017 the idea of Trump lock...
Reality Check!
Earlier this year I read a book called The End of Reality by the writer Jonathan Taplin. The book is a meditation on the outsize power and influence...
Cultural Marxism Industry (2024 Hard Core version)
A few years ago I put together a story about the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory with the writer and historian Martin Jay, today in 2024 the Cultur...
1984 (the year not the book) 40th Anniversary edition
Forty years ago in 1984 your host was twelve years old and like George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, he kept a diary, for the citizens of the fu...
America & The Punisher
We now have many ways to tell the story of America's tilt towards authoritarianism, but for your host one image sums up the whole sordid business: a...
The Imperial History of the CIA with Hugh Wilford
Intelligence scholar Hugh Wilford's excellent new book grapples with the paradox at the heart of America’s covert intelligence agency. Many of the CIA...
Not All Propaganda is Art 9: Freedom or Death
ToE's Cultural Cold War miniseries concludes with three stories about containment and death. Richard Wright delivers his final lecture on Black Spies...
Not All Propaganda is Art 8: Signature Acoustique
]Richard Wright died from a mysterious illness on November 28th, 1960. Or was he murdered? Tune in for a new listen to the final chapter of Richard W...
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 Minister who was smacked down for daring to use dipl...
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 in Moscow, while American Cold War intellectuals gath...
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 Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn over socially engaged a...
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 Artists in Paris. James Baldwin critiqued the event fo...
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 social and political issues on stage, on screen and i...
Not All Propaganda is Art 2: Outsider Influence
In 1956, New Yorker writer Dwight Macdonald joined Encounter, a magazine secretly backed by American and British security agencies. He arrived in Lond...
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 three writers (Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dw...
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, think audio footnotes!
Each episode in Not All P...
Wrong Way with Joanne McNeil
One of my favorite technology critics has just published a novel about Self Driving Cars (or fake Self Driving Cars). We talk about her new book, and...
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 Show, author and journalist McKenzie Funk provides us...
Too good to be true remix
Two very different tales about making stuff up about the CIA. Your host shares the story of Sylvia Press, who in the 1950s, wrote a revenge novel afte...
Second time as forced (500daysplus)
Citizens armed only with Molotov cocktails battle with Russian tanks on the streets of… Budapest. In November of 1956 Russian troops invaded Hungary....
Outsider Studies: Connie Converse
The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length sad stories: Before Dylan there was Connie Converse and then...
How to look at America
We hear from two photographers who are masters at showing us what is hard to see, and always has been hard to see, in America.
Venice (Ukraine redux)
The war/invasion/fighting is still going. We revisit our program on NFTs, art and war. Your host visits the 59th International Art Biennale in Venice...
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 up to help with the News. That Algorithmic Oligarchi...
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 disinformation complex. You can find that series here....
How to tell the truth about lies (complete)
A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the...
Lives of the Wives
Some books have titles that jump out right out at you, Carmela Ciuraru’s new group biography Lives of the Wives is definitely one of those books. She...
Listening to Noise
As decibel levels continue to rise, threatening human existence we turn to two listening experts for help. George Prochnik and George Foy both investi...
American Histories
One of our heroes Barbara Ehrenreich passed away earlier this year. She was one of America’s best undercover journalists. We once spoke with her about...
Not going back to normal (a conversation with Jeremiah Moss author of Feral City)
Jeremiah Moss’s Feral City is much much more than a Covid memoir. In many ways it is a continuation of his desire to understand how and why New York c...
Transformers remix
Yvette Gonzales tells us a first person story about what its like to be transgender in Prison. Gender theorist B. Preciado tells us about what happens...
Risky Business: Hollywood and Israel
In their new book Hollywood and Israel, film scholars Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman take us behind and beyond the screen to show how the world’s entert...
Performance Peace (reprise)
911 final reprise. George Bush celebrates the anniversary of 911 with some new ‘dark’ paintings. Your host marks the occasion with some high stakes pe...
Trouble and Travel with James Campbell
Growing up in Glasgow in the 1960s James Campbell got into loads of trouble. At the age of 15 he left school and started work at a printing factory. B...
The longest Shortest Flight of Rudolf Hess (remix)
On May 10th 1941 Rudolf Hess flew from Germany to Scotland. He hoped to bring the Nazis and the British together. He failed. But the details behind hi...
revisiting Dark Karma
“G.S.” was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Bozeman, Montana many years ago. The story he told me about how bad karma brought him from...
Covid after Covid
One million plus dead Americans into the pandemic and the ‘long covid’ odds are now 1 in 5. What happened? How did we end up here? And more importantl...
Venice
Does art have anything to offer us in these trying times? Your host visits the 59th International Art Biennale in Venice, the world’s most important a...
Where does real art come from? (three fakes)
Hitler and Goebbels read Walter Benjamin in the bunker, Orson Wells discovers the magic of the fake crowd.
Plus, a profile of artist Lynn Hershm...