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Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Personally connecting the dots. All of them. Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more... more

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Episodes

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... more

19 Mar 2024 · 58 minutes
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... more

05 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
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... more

20 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
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... more

13 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 1 minute
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,... more

06 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
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... more

30 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
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... more

23 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
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... more

23 Jan 2024 · 13 minutes
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).... more

13 Dec 2023 · 22 minutes
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... more

07 Nov 2023 · 23 minutes
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... more

15 Aug 2023 · 22 minutes
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... more

11 Jul 2023 · 22 minutes
Outsider Studies: Connie Converse

The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length sad stories: Before Dylan there... more

20 Jun 2023 · 23 minutes
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.

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

31 May 2023 · 25 minutes
Venice (Ukraine redux)

The war/invasion/fighting is still going. We revisit our program on NFTs, art and war. Your host visits the 59th... more

16 May 2023 · 26 minutes
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... more

21 Apr 2023 · 30 minutes
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. ... more

04 Apr 2023 · 19 minutes
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... more

14 Mar 2023 · 44 minutes
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... more

07 Feb 2023 · 19 minutes
Listening to Noise

As decibel levels continue to rise, threatening human existence we turn to two listening experts for help. George Prochnik and... more

20 Dec 2022 · 24 minutes
American Histories

One of our heroes Barbara Ehrenreich passed away earlier this year. She was one of America’s best undercover journalists. We... more

29 Nov 2022 · 26 minutes
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... more

15 Nov 2022 · 29 minutes
Transformers remix

Yvette Gonzales tells us a first person story about what its like to be transgender in Prison. Gender theorist B.... more

18 Oct 2022 · 36 minutes
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... more

28 Sep 2022 · 27 minutes
Performance Peace (reprise)

911 final reprise. George Bush celebrates the anniversary of 911 with some new ‘dark’ paintings. Your host marks the occasion with... more

12 Sep 2022 · 34 minutes
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... more

30 Aug 2022 · 37 minutes
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... more

20 Jul 2022 · 58 minutes
revisiting Dark Karma

“G.S.” was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Bozeman, Montana many years ago. The story... more

14 Jun 2022 · 33 minutes
Covid after Covid

One million plus dead Americans into the pandemic and the ‘long covid’ odds are now 1 in 5. What happened?... more

25 May 2022 · 22 minutes
Venice

Does art have anything to offer us in these trying times? Your host visits the 59th International Art Biennale in... more

12 May 2022 · 26 minutes
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... more

12 Apr 2022 · 26 minutes
Even More Broken Windows

New York’s new mayor recently announced a new strategy to fight crime. As the New York Daily News proclaims: BROKEN... more

29 Mar 2022 · 23 minutes
How to tell the truth about lies (part ii of ii)

We conclude our investigation into Hollywood’s retelling of the secret crimes, conspiracies and lies that rocked America in the first... more

10 Mar 2022 · 24 minutes
Making Trouble, Asking Questions

When he was 16 your host mistook the Hollywood movie The Manchurian Candidate for real life. This confusion led to... more

22 Feb 2022 · 24 minutes
How to tell the truth about lies (part i of ii)

Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All... more

15 Feb 2022 · 23 minutes
Nightvision

After testing positive in Lisbon, your host assesses Portugal's expat and exile scenes.  Plus! lunch with the writer Joseph Roth... more

31 Jan 2022 · 23 minutes
Art vs Commerce (Iron and Lies remix)

*** New ToE series debuting next week about truth, lies, American democracy and the 50 year legacy of deepthroat and... more

18 Jan 2022 · 27 minutes
Herdest Immunity (New York after Rona part v of v)

Our New York after Rona miniseries comes to an end just in time for the latest Variant. The WHO turns... more

15 Dec 2021 · 22 minutes
Émigration Intérieure (remix)

As the Nazi nightmare came to an end Thomas Mann thought long and hard about collective guilt. Can Mann’s idea... more

30 Nov 2021 · 27 minutes
Afterschool Special (New York After Rona (part iv)

New York Schools were closed for most of the pandemic. Education reporter Anya Kamenetz explains why she calls it a... more

16 Nov 2021 · 25 minutes
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Even More Broken Windows
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New York’s new mayor recently announced a new strategy to fight crime. As the New York Daily News proclaims: BROKEN WINDOWS is... more