web02.fireside.fm Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:11:02 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Congress For Cultural Freedom” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/congress%20for%20cultural%20freedom Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:45:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com Episode 32: The Lasch Files: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of Psychopolitics https://exhaust.fireside.fm/32 36de0a99-1be3-457f-ada9-e58ed36a4428 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:45:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and John discuss Christopher Lasch's essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom." 1:06:58 yes In a brief addition to the Lasch Files, we discuss his essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (https://www.joelwhitney.net/christopherlasch.html)." We go through the Alger Hiss case, the ACCF, the Korean War as it played out uring McCarthyism, why everything's a psyop, and how Lasch saw psychopolitics coming. Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep32bib). Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "checkin out (https://blasteddiplomats.bandcamp.com/album/blasted-diplomats-self-titled-plustape)" by blasted diplomats. christopher lasch, congress for cultural freedom, cold war, cia, psyop, korean war, nixon, mccarthyism, cultural cold war In a brief addition to the Lasch Files, we discuss his essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom." We go through the Alger Hiss case, the ACCF, the Korean War as it played out uring McCarthyism, why everything's a psyop, and how Lasch saw psychopolitics coming.

Bibliography.

Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "checkin out" by blasted diplomats.

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Bibliography.

Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "checkin out" by blasted diplomats.

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