Event
Hearing Dissent: Stories from the Cultural Cold War
Hearing Dissent: Stories from the Cultural Cold War: Richard Wright, Dwight Macdonald and the Congress for Cultural Freedom
May 6, 2024
6:30pm-9:00pm
NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
7th Floor Commons
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
Radiotopia’s Benjamen Walker will present his new nonfiction mini-series, Not All Propaganda is Art. The series follows three writers (Richard Wright, Dwight Macdonald, and Kenneth Tynan) who all got caught up in the Cultural Cold War in the late 1950s. The event will highlight one story in particular, Richard Wright and the intellectual protest that took place in France in the fall of 1960 over resistance to the Algerian War.
Benjamen Walker will discuss his series with NYU Journalism’s Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Benjamen Walker is the host of Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything podcast and he is one of the founding members of Radiotopia from PRX.
