In 1956, New Yorker writer Dwight Macdonald joined Encounter, a magazine secretly backed by American and British security agencies. He arrived in London just as British Influencers turned a young Existentialist named Colin Wilson into England's answer to Jean-Paul Sartre. Meanwhile, the CIA incited a youth rebellion in communist Hungary. We investigate the covert propaganda behind Operation Free Youth Action and Operation Anti-Sartre and the Outsider’s influence on Macdonald’s famous critique of Mass and Middlebrow Culture.


Shownotes: Carol Ann Gill  is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Carole-Ann-Gill-ebook/dp/B0BZTNP1DV/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1689526944&sr=1-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carol Ann</a>, Sarah Roth wrote on <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682745.2022.2124972" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Operation Focus</a>, Hugh Wilford is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Wurlitzer-How-Played-America/dp/067403256X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1I2VLW1PUPMNG&keywords=hugh+wilford&qid=1705522117&s=digital-text&sprefix=hugh+wilford%2Cdigital-text%2C77&sr=1-2-catcorr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mighty Wurlitzer</a>, Gary Lachman is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Robot-Life-Colin-Wilson/dp/0399173080" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beyond the Robot</a>, Alfred Betschart writes on <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/48562912" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sartre</a>, Stefan Collini is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Absent-Minds-Intellectuals-Stefan-Collini/dp/0199216657" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Absent Minds</a>, Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Absent-Minds-Intellectuals-Stefan-Collini/dp/0199216657" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Absent Friends</a>.

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