Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

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Personally connecting the dots. All of them. Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.

5 DAYS AGO

Influencers (second time as Tragedy)

During the first Trump presidency I produced a radio drama with Jonathan Mitchell at The Truth Podcast about camp MAGA. In 2017 the idea of Trump locking up Americans in camps was a bit silly… that could never happen here? But in 2024, as private prison stocks soar to new heights, things like a little different. Perhaps Marx got it wrong. Perhaps the repetitions of History are both farcical and tragic.

28 min
14 NOV

Reality Check!

Earlier this year I read a book called The End of Reality by the writer Jonathan Taplin. The book is a meditation on the outsize power and influence of four billionaires: Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, and Elon Musk. After the election I rang Jonathan up for a special post election conversation about his book and our new Oligarchy. Also, Radiotopia is running its annual fundraiser right now, we only do this once a year. If you can donate please do! Support this show and indy podcasts.

23 min
17 OCT

Cultural Marxism Industry (2024 Hard Core version)

A few years ago I put together a story about the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory with the writer and historian Martin Jay, today in 2024 the Cultural Marxism Industry is stronger than ever. An update for 2024.

29 min
17 SEPT

Flights, Finks and Secret History with Joel Whitney

Joel Whitney’s book Finks is a seminal book about American intellectuals and American security agencies, mainly because it illuminates the real story behind the CIA’s involvement with the founding of a little magazine called The Paris Review which hit the scene in the early 1950s at the height of the Cold War. In Joel Whitney’s new book Flights, he continues his historical excavations - more stories about writers intellectuals and activists who found themselves in the cross hairs of American security agencies like the CIA and the FBI. Your host discusses both books with Joel Whitney and the discipline of secret history itself.

33 min
15 AUG

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 protagonist Winston Smith, he kept a diary, for the citizens of the future. For this special installment of Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything we travel back in time and give this diary a soundtrack. TV commercials, radio spots, movie clips – all sound from 1984 (the year, not the book). Find out what totalitarianism really sounds like. *********more details on this installment**********

1h 6m
23 JUL

America & The Punisher

We now have many ways to tell the story of America's tilt towards authoritarianism, but for your host one image sums up the whole sordid business: a mashup of Donald Trump and the Marvel comic book character The Punisher. In this episode we talk with Kent Worcester, author of a new cultural history of the Punisher. It's a conversation about America's fascination with, and attraction to, a black and white vision of justice and vengeance.

25 min
19 JUN

The Imperial history of the CIA with Hugh Wilford

Intelligence scholar Hugh Wilford's excellent new book grapples with the paradox at the heart of America’s covert intelligence agency. Many of the CIA’s founding fathers were staunch anti-imperialists, but during the Cold War, the US took up the mantle of Europe’s colonial projects. Hugh Wilford's book The CIA: an Imperial History is out now. Hugh Wilford has written numerous books about the CIA and Cold War intelligence history, he made two appearances in our recent Not All Propaganda is Art mini-series. Also the mini-series got a really nice write up in the New Yorker last month!

34 min
16 APR

Not All Propaganda is Art 9: Freedom or Death

ToE's Cultural Cold War miniseries concludes with three stories about containment and death. Richard Wright delivers his final lecture on Black Spies in Paris, Dwight Macdonald’s Mass Cult & Mid Cult finally debuts & flops, and Kenneth Tynan discovers the limits of social and cultural protest. Show notes: Matthew Tynan reads Kenneth Tynan’s 1960 speech, Michael Billington wrote a 1960 Parody of Kenneth Tynan, Jefferson Pooley recaps Personal Influence and Daphne Park explains how she got Lumumba killed. Support ToE and get access to the incredible exclusive bonus companion series to Not All Propaganda is Art by subscribing at https://theoryofeverything.supercast.com/, or subscribe directly in Apple Podcasts by hitting “Subscribe” right on the show page.

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The greatest podcast

09/12/2019

idealape

Of about the 150 podcast I subscribed to, and about 50 actually listen this. This must be my favourite. It looks with an artistic eye, philosophical mind and humanistic heart to an ever changing world. Benjamin Walkers Theory of Everything shows where we came from and sometimes even leads us to paths not yet walked.
Amazing show

02/05/2017

Beayrgxz

Society, culture, technology, economy, politics, fiction... This show is so diverse, but always relevant and exciting. Try "New York after rent", "1984" or "instaserfs". Will blow your mind.
Sick thoughts grouped in one podcast

13/03/2019

Mikser

Exemplary dogmatism of far too polarized leftist extremists. There is no reasoning with brainwashed clowns like Benjamen Walker and most of his guests. I’ve sat through a fair number of these delusional podcasts, but they are without fail too dumb to grasp. This is the left wing brother of Breitbart: 100% of nonproductive negativity. Even if the makers don't agree with other opinions, they would do themselves and their audience a great service trying to understand different points of view. That's what makes more centrist oriented podcasts – without hardly any fail – so good and more intelligent. Feel like throwing more stigmas and dogmas onto your monotonic view of the world around you? Than this is an excellent stop for you. Feel like learning a bit and understanding the world around you in a more complete manner with 360° vision: carry on, there's nothing here for you.
I enjoy his stories.

31/05/2016

Lgverjan

Nice show

Personally connecting the dots. All of them. Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.