Earlier this year I read a book called The End of Reality  by the writer Jonathan Taplin. The book is... more

A few years ago I put together a story about the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory with the writer and historian... more

Joel Whitney’s book Finks is a seminal book about American intellectuals and American security agencies,  mainly because it illuminates the... more

Forty years ago in 1984 your host was twelve years old and like George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, he kept... more

We now have many ways to tell the story of America's tilt towards authoritarianism, but for your host one image ... more

Intelligence scholar Hugh Wilford's excellent new book grapples with the paradox at the heart of America’s covert intelligence agency. Many... more

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