Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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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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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 of four billionaires: Peter Th… -
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 philosopher Martin Jay, today in 2024 the Cultural Marxism Industry is stronger than ever. An update for 2024. -
Flights, Finks and Secret History with Joel Whitney
Flights, Finks and Secret History with Joel Whitney -
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 future. For this special installment of Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything we travel back… -
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 mashup of Donald Trump and the Marvel comic book character The Punisher. In this episode we… -
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’s founding fathers were staunch anti-imperialists, but during the Cold War, the US took up… -
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 in Paris, Dwight Macdonald’s Mass Cult & Mid Cult finally debuts & flops, and Kenne… -
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 Wright’s life: forged letters, fake terrorist groups, fraudulent doctors and French Radio. -
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 diplomacy to resolve the crisis over divided Germany. In 1959 England also fretted over a new American … -
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 gathered in the Poconos to defend Kitsch
