Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything podcast

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Personally connecting the dots. All of them. [Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything] (http://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com) is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at [radiotopia.fm] (http://radiotopia.fm/) .

Personally connecting the dots. All of them. [Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything] (http://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com) is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at [radiotopia.fm] (http://radiotopia.fm/) .

 

#203

Influencers (second time as Tragedy)

During the first Trump presidency I produced a radio drama with Jonathan Mitchell at The T... more

17 Dec 2024

27 MINS

27:40

17 Dec 2024


#202

Reality Check!

Earlier this year I read a book called [The End of Reality] (https://www.publishersweekly.... more

14 Nov 2024

22 MINS

22:45

14 Nov 2024


#201

Cultural Marxism Industry (2024 Hard Core version)

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

17 Oct 2024

29 MINS

29:09

17 Oct 2024


#200

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 protagonis... more

15 Aug 2024

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:59

15 Aug 2024


#199

America & The Punisher

We now have many ways to tell the story of America's tilt towards authoritarianism, but fo... more

23 Jul 2024

25 MINS

25:05

23 Jul 2024


#198

The Imperial History of the CIA with Hugh Wilford

Intelligence scholar Hugh Wilford's excellent new book grapples with the paradox at the he... more

19 Jun 2024

33 MINS

33:33

19 Jun 2024


#197

Not All Propaganda is Art 9: Freedom or Death

ToE's Cultural Cold War miniseries concludes with three stories about containment and deat... more

16 Apr 2024

1 HR 17 MINS

1:17:58

16 Apr 2024


#196

Not All Propaganda is Art 8: Signature Acoustique

 ]Richard Wright died from a mysterious illness on November 28th, 1960. Or was he murdered... more

02 Apr 2024

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:57

02 Apr 2024


#195

Not All Propaganda is Art 7: Manufacturing Dissent

In 1959, Anti-Americanism surged in the UK. England seethed over America’s treatment of it... more

19 Mar 2024

58 MINS

58:54

19 Mar 2024


#194

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 k... more

05 Mar 2024

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:08

05 Mar 2024


#193

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... more

20 Feb 2024

1 HR 11 MINS

1:11:07

20 Feb 2024


#192

Not All Propaganda is Art 4: Propagande Noire

In 1956, Richard Wright spoke of islands of free men at the first Congress of Black Writer... more

13 Feb 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:25

13 Feb 2024


#191

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 ex... more

06 Feb 2024

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:17

06 Feb 2024


#190

Not All Propaganda is Art 2: Outsider Influence

In 1956, New Yorker writer Dwight Macdonald joined Encounter, a magazine secretly backed b... more

30 Jan 2024

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:36

30 Jan 2024


#189

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. ... more

23 Jan 2024

1 HR 13 MINS

1:13:07

23 Jan 2024


#188

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 & Sou... more

23 Jan 2024

13 MINS

13:17

23 Jan 2024


#187

Wrong Way with Joanne McNeil

One of my favorite technology critics has just published a novel about Self Driving Cars (... more

13 Dec 2023

22 MINS

22:29

13 Dec 2023


#186

The Hank Show (when computers are right)

Today we live inside data systems that contain, surveil, and judge us. In his new book, [t... more

07 Nov 2023

23 MINS

23:50

07 Nov 2023


#185

Too good to be true remix

Two very different tales about making stuff up about the CIA. Your host shares the story o... more

15 Aug 2023

22 MINS

22:58

15 Aug 2023


#184

Second time as forced (500daysplus)

Citizens armed only with Molotov cocktails battle with Russian tanks on the streets of… Bu... more

11 Jul 2023

22 MINS

22:50

11 Jul 2023


#183

Outsider Studies: Connie Converse

The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length ... more

20 Jun 2023

23 MINS

23:52

20 Jun 2023


#182

How to look at America

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

31 May 2023

25 MINS

25:56

31 May 2023


#181

Venice (Ukraine redux)

The war/invasion/fighting is still going. We revisit our program on NFTs, art and war. You... more

16 May 2023

26 MINS

26:25

16 May 2023