This Is Propaganda
Episodes
S2E2:Â Hollywood Declares War: From WWII Pinup Girls to Playmates in Vietnam
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How propagandists getting into bed with Hollywood caused the military to lose control of what women mean to their warriors. Or: How I learned to sto...
S2E1: Horny for War: The History of How Sex Became A Weapon
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
White feathers, red light districts, and the rise of the military edging complex. How governments weaponized horniness to win WWI, and began to reimag...
This Is Propaganda Season 2
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Is Propaganda is back, and more patriotic than ever. From WWI posters to TikTok E-Girls, strap in for an immersive narrative investigation into h...
Bot Armies, Dead Internet, and Misinformation Farms with Amil Khan
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With endless bot armies infiltrating social media feeds and harnessing the algorithm to control narratives and public opinion, our media system is bec...
Media Literacy with Renee Hobbs
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The average American's worldview is under constant assault from propaganda. Between the 5,000 advertisements we see daily, for profit journalism, and ...
Hollywood and The Pentagon with Tom Secker
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It probably won’t come as much of a surprise that the Pentagon was involved in the making of Top Gun. What may be more surprising is the sheer scope...
The Death of a Millennial Brand with Eugene Healey
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What aesthetics and ideas defined the branded propaganda targeting millennials in the 2010s, and why do they increasingly fail to resonate with Gen Z ...
Howard Gossage: 20th Century Master of Propaganda with Justin Oberman
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
San Francisco ad man Howard Gossage (1917–1969) is a bit more under the radar than his Madison Avenue contemporaries, but his work in both consumer ...
Abortion Messaging in Post-Dobbs America with Amelia Bonow
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liberal “pro choice” messaging has historically conceded the moral high ground (“safe, legal and rare”). Amelia Bonow helped change that as th...
Luigi Mangione, Trump and the Art of Cultural Disruption with David Shields
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Shields (best-selling author / filmmaker) joins us to dissect the brutal reality of politics as performance. We dive into Trump’s media master...
Nuance has a PR Problem
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Unpacking how the Culture War feeds on emotional shortcuts, why complexity and nuance is so hard to embrace, and what it means to navigate a society d...
The Art / Propaganda Spectrum
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is art propaganda? Is propaganda art? A free flowing conversation about a spectrum that exists between the two and how modern consumer propaganda migh...
Narratives of the US Election
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of DoubleThink, Malcolm and Josh revisit the “vibe shift” of the US election when President Biden dropped and the world got ...
S1E5: Everything Is Propaganda, Even You
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Social media creates an environment where propaganda becomes our default mode of expression. Because everyone is a brand. — BRINK media group is re-...
S1E4: You Have My Permission to Believe What I Say
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our discomfort with propaganda puts us on a quest for authenticity, but do we even know what that means anymore? — BRINK media group is re-imagining...
S1E3: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Propaganda helps usher in a new form of tribalism and the modern culture war. — BRINK media group is re-imagining how brands, causes and artists com...
S1E2: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, It Will Be Sold
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Previous propaganda techniques struggled to work with the boomer generation in a period of social unrest – until Madison Avenue had a breakthrough. ...
S1E1: After the War, I Could Really Use a Cigarette
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following the Great War, Edward Bernays and his contemporaries used the power of propaganda to forever change marketing, and all of Western culture. —...
Season 1 Trailer
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Creative Directors and cultural theorists Josh & Malcolm uncover the marketing profession’s delusions about the origins, techniques and cultural...