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ToE's Cultural Cold War miniseries concludes with three stories about containment and death. Richard Wright delivers his final lecture on... more
]Richard Wright died from a mysterious illness on November 28th, 1960. Or was he murdered? Tune in for a new... more
In 1959, Anti-Americanism surged in the UK. England seethed over America’s treatment of its Prime Minister who was smacked down... more
In the summer of 1959, Nixon and Khrushchev argued over a washing machine in a backstage kitchen in Moscow, while... more
In the fall of 1958, Kenneth Tynan moved from London to New York and upon arrival, clashed with Hollywood mogul... more
In 1956, Richard Wright spoke of islands of free men at the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists in... more
In 1956 London Theater critic Kenneth Tynan helped launch a youth movement committed to exposing social and political issues on stage,... more
In 1956, New Yorker writer Dwight Macdonald joined Encounter, a magazine secretly backed by American and British security agencies. He... more
In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. We meet three writers... more
The new ToE series Propaganda is Art has a companion podcast called Propaganda Notes & Sources, think audio footnotes! Each episode... more
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