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Crisis in Perception
Crisis in Perception is a long-form educational podcast examining how we misunderstand the world around us. Using books as entry points, each episode explores history, psychology, economics, science, and power structures to reveal how systems actually work—and why our perceptions so often fail. Clear, evidence-based, and non-tribal. Crisis in Perception uses AI-assisted tools for narration and synthesis in service of long-form educational analysis.
Episodes
Crisis in PerceptionNine Lives of Neoliberalism: The System That Survives Crisis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Using Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, edited by Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian…
Crisis in PerceptionImperial Nostalgia: Empire, Memory, and the Politics of Decline
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Hours Have Lost Their Clock: How Nostalgia Became a System of Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Hours Have Lost Their Clock by Grafton Tanner as a…
Crisis in PerceptionLeft-Wing Melancholia: How Systems Erase Political Futures
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Left-Wing Melancholia by Enzo Traverso as a…
Crisis in PerceptionCaptive State: When Corporations Rewire Democracy — Systems of Privatized Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Captive State by George Monbiot as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionOut of the Wreckage: The Narrative System Behind Social Fragmentation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Invisible Doctrine: Neoliberalism as Hidden Operating System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Great Refusal: How Modern Systems Absorb Dissent
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Rare Metals War: The Hidden Infrastructure of Green Technology
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron as a…
Crisis in PerceptionTarnished: The Hidden Cost of Gold — Systems of Risk Transfer
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Tarnished by the Pulitzer Center as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Master Switch: Information Empires and the Cycle of Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Master Switch by Tim Wu as a systems-level analysis…
Crisis in PerceptionBig-Box Swindle: The Hidden System Behind Cheap Prices — Retail Extraction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Big-Box Swindle by Stacy Mitchell as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Art of Loving: Love, Loneliness, and the Personality Marketplace
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Populist Moment: Democracy After Mass Politics — The Hollowing of Representation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Populist Moment by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger…
Crisis in PerceptionA Room of One’s Own & Three Guineas: The Architecture of Power — Domestic Systems and War
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf…
Crisis in PerceptionThursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: Domestic Labor and Invisible Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off by Vertamae…
Crisis in PerceptionCare: The Highest Stage of Capitalism — When Vulnerability Becomes an Industry
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This analysis examines Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla…
Crisis in PerceptionPerfection: Algorithmic Authenticity and the Global Template of Modern Life
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionAspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism: Democracy’s Unhealed Scar
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism by Theodor W…
Crisis in PerceptionFrederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom — Systems, Slavery, and Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W…
Crisis in PerceptionSomeone Is Out to Get Us: The Security State and the Logic of Paranoia
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Someone Is Out to Get Us by Brian T. Brown as a…
Crisis in PerceptionBloody Nasty People: Britain’s Far Right and the Failure of Representation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Bloody Nasty People by Daniel Trilling as a…
Crisis in PerceptionTreasure Islands: The Hidden Offshore System Behind Global Finance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionBroken Money: How Settlement Systems Reshaped Global Finance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This analysis examines Broken Money by Lyn Alden as a systems-level analysis…
Crisis in PerceptionWhen McKinsey Comes to Town: Efficiency Without Accountability
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Using When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe as an…
Crisis in PerceptionCrashed: Hidden Dollar Networks and the Politics of Financial Rescue
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the…
Crisis in PerceptionLords of Easy Money: The Hidden System That Repriced Risk
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard as a…
Crisis in PerceptionPlunder: How Financial Extraction Replaced Long-Term Capitalism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Plunder by Brendan Ballou as a systems-level analysis of…
Crisis in PerceptionScarcity: How Systems Capture Human Bandwidth — The Hidden Architecture of Lack
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil…
Crisis in PerceptionBretz’s Flood: When Science Couldn’t See the Evidence — Institutional Blind Spots
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Bretz’s Flood by John Soennichsen as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionAfter the Blast: Ecology, Disturbance, and the Myth of Natural Stability
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores After the Blast by Eric Wagner as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionHow to Win an Information War: Propaganda as Psychological Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe True Cost of Fashion: Outsourced Accountability and Hidden Labor Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Using The True Cost of Fashion by Louise Spilsbury as an entry point, this…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Price Is Wrong: — Fairness, Trust, and Market Legitimacy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Price Is Wrong by Sarah Maxwell as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionA Canyon Voyage: Mapping the Grand Canyon — How Measurement Replaced Myth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores A Canyon Voyage by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh as a…
Crisis in PerceptionGender Typing of Children’s Toys — How Play Shapes the Developing Brain
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Gender Typing of Children’s Toys by Erica S. Weisgram…
Crisis in PerceptionThe History of the Computer — Invisible Digital Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The History of the Computer by Rachel Ignotofsky as a…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Jury Duty Matters — Why Democracies Depend on Deliberate Inefficiency
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Andrew Guthrie Ferguson This episode explores Why Jury Duty Matters by…
Crisis in PerceptionConfessions of an Economic Hit Man — Why Development Can Produce Dependency
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: John Perkins This episode explores Confessions of an Economic Hit Man…
Crisis in PerceptionTrue Cost Accounting for Food — Why Cheap Food May Be the Most Expensive System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Various Contributors This episode explores True Cost Accounting for…
Crisis in PerceptionLives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Driving — The System Behind Oil Dependence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Terry Tamminen This episode explores Lives Per Gallon by Terry…
Crisis in PerceptionKiss the Ground — The Incentive System Behind Soil Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Josh Tickell This episode explores Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickell as…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Faith Healers — The System Behind Manufactured Miracles
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: James Randi This episode explores The Faith Healers by James Randi as…
Crisis in PerceptionCareless People — When Outrage Becomes More Profitable Than Truth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sarah Wynn-Williams This episode explores Careless People by Sarah…
Crisis in PerceptionBlack Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy — When Physics Breaks Intuition
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Kip S. Thorne This episode explores Black Holes & Time Warps by Kip S…
Crisis in PerceptionContact — The Systems That Decide What Counts as Truth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Carl Sagan This episode explores Contact by Carl Sagan as a…
Crisis in PerceptionSmall Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered — When Growth Liquidates Capital
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: E. F. Schumacher This episode explores Small Is Beautiful: Economics…
Crisis in PerceptionA History of Modern Iran — Why Oil Wealth Produced Revolutionary Instability
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ervand Abrahamian This episode explores A History of Modern Iran by…
Crisis in PerceptionOccupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism — Why Democracy Stops at Work
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Richard Wolff and David Barsamian This episode explores Occupy the…
Crisis in PerceptionAll the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror — Blowback’s Hidden Cost
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Stephen Kinzer This episode explores All the Shah’s Men: An American…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Future Medicine — Why the Body Resists Repair
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores Scientific American…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy — When Extraction Becomes “Value”
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mariana Mazzucato This episode explores The Value of Everything…
Crisis in PerceptionNet Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take — The Profit Illusion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Paul Polman and Andrew Winston This episode explores Net Positive: How…
Crisis in PerceptionNuclear Power — The Energy System That Requires 100,000 Years of Stability
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dirk Eidemüller This episode explores Nuclear Power by Dirk Eidemüller…
Crisis in PerceptionJourney to the Centre of the Earth — The Hidden Engine Beneath Civilization
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Whitehouse This episode explores Journey to the Centre of the…
Crisis in PerceptionWho Gets What — And Why — The Hidden Engineering Behind “Free” Markets
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Alvin E. Roth This episode explores Who Gets What — And Why by Alvin…
Crisis in PerceptionThe End of the Aztecs — How Chance Breaks Empires
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Charles L. Mee Jr. This episode explores The End of the Aztecs by…
Crisis in PerceptionTo End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment — When Democracies Lose Shared Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz This episode explores To End a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Pentagon Papers — When Credibility Matters More Than Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Daniel Ellsberg This episode explores The Pentagon Papers as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe System: Democracy, Oligarchy, and the Political Construction of Markets
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Robert B. Reich This episode explores The System by Robert B. Reich as…