Not All Propaganda is Art 2: Outsider Influence

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: Carole Ann Gill is the author of Carole Ann , Sarah Roth wrote on Operation Focus , Hugh Wilford is the author of The Mighty Wurlitzer , Jelena Ćulibrk writes on IRD and Newsreels , Gary Lachman is the author of Beyond the Robot , Alfred Betschart writes on Sartre , Stefan Collini is the author of Absent Minds , Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author of Absent Friends . Support ToE and get access to the incredible exclusive bonus companion series to Not All Propaganda is Art by subscribing at , or

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Not All Propaganda is Art 2: Outsider Influence is an episode from Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything by Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia.

This episode is 01:03:36 long.

This episode was published on Jan 30, 2024.

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