Series
Not All Propaganda is Art
Three Writers who got caught up in the Cultural Cold War between the years of 1956 and 1960: New Yorker writer and “little magazine” champion
How to tell the truth about lies
In the 1970s Investigative Journalists and Hollywood filmmakers had different ideas about how to tell the truth about government conspiracies, crimes and lies. Your host
Social Distance Learning
Coronavirus plunged us into a new world Quarantine, isolation, zoom calls, masks… your host adapts to the new strange world of covid-19
Failure
How to take out democracy one video at a time. Your host Benjamen Walker takes an ill-advised journey down the rabbit hole of the so-called,
False Alarm!
Fake news and alternative facts have declared war on the real. Join Benjamen Walker on his journey to tell the difference between the real and
Utopia
Your host dons a pair of utopian tinted glasses ToE’s Andrew Callaway goes on a journey to find a place for us to retreat while
Wisconsin
Art, resentment, and Tocqueville in Pawn America. The Walker Family takes a trip to Wisconsin to see art environments built by immigrants and do their
Adventures in Surveillance
The government is surveilling us, of course. What about the advertisers? Your host sets out in search of a model for thinking about surveillance —
sudculture
Craft beer is taking America by storm. Your host sets out to better understand America’s craft beer scene. The latest food trend? Or oppositional culture?
Holy War
Redemption, forgiveness and torture. When Margo’s husband is killed in a terrorist attack, she is given Ali Baba, a terrorist clone. This is how it works in Christian America
Instaserfs
In the sharing economy, no one can hear you work. This is because companies like Uber only employ “partners” or independent contractors. So in 2015,
Art De Vivre
What will wine do to China? Benjamen’s wife Mathilde joins us for this two part series about the intersection between France and China and wine. The
NY After Rent
The play Rent closed in NY the same year AirBnB opened for business. The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important
Dislike Club
A social network for people who do not like social networks. Facebook eventually added “reactions” other than the simple like, but they never made a
Man Without a Country
What happens when you curse your own country? In this version of the classic Americana tale your host is sentenced to live out the rest
The Clouds
We now spend most of our time living and working in the cloud but most of us have no idea how it works, what it