Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

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

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

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

Forty years ago in 1984 your host was twelve years old and like George Orwell’s protagonis... more

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

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

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

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

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

In the summer of 1959, Nixon and Khrushchev argued over a washing machine in a backstage k... more

In the fall of 1958, Kenneth Tynan moved from London to New York and upon arrival, clashed... more

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

In 1956 London Theater critic Kenneth Tynan helped launch a youth movement committed to ex... more

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

In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. ... more

The new ToE series Propaganda is Art has a companion podcast called Propaganda Notes & Sou... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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