Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
4.9/5
Critic Rating
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Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Sarah Larson • New Yorker • Dec 3, 2024
"(Season: Not All Propaganda is Art) ...getting to know these writers and their work, seeming at once lifetimes away from our world and shockingly prescient, as we contemplate big questions about art, money, racism, the postwar cultural landscape, Orwell, communism, McCarthyism, and much more, with a frisson of conspiracy theory shivering beneath it allWalker delves into this whirl of ideas and intrigue with zeal; he spent four years researching, and tracking down wonderfully obscure archival audio and writing, and it sounds at every moment like he’s thrilled to blow your mind. He just might if you can keep up with his. "
Score: 4.8
Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian • Feb 3, 2024
"(Series: Episode cover art Not All Propaganda is Art) Walker works hard to establish that they were all connected, and all funded by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA-funded front, and he does it well. Though I’m unsure how significant this all is in 2024, these programmes are fascinating insights into a time when intellectual thinkers were deemed important enough to be worthy of government attention. "
