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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 PerceptionEscaping the Housing Trap — Why Affordable Housing Threatens the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Charles Marohn and Daniel Herriges This episode explores Escaping the…
Crisis in PerceptionFutures of Socialism — Why Elections Fail to Change Economic Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Grace Blakeley This episode explores Futures of Socialism by Grace…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology — The System Behind Apocalypse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ted Toadvine This episode explores The Memory of the World by Ted…
Crisis in PerceptionTechnologies of the Self — Why Modern Identity Requires Endless Self-Confession
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Michel Foucault This episode explores Technologies of the Self by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Illness Narratives — Why Modern Medicine Can’t Fully See Human Suffering
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Arthur Kleinman This episode explores The Illness Narratives by Arthur…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Birth of the Clinic — Why Institutions Decide What Counts as Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Michel Foucault This episode explores The Birth of the Clinic by…
Crisis in PerceptionThat One Patient — Why Medicine Treats the Disease but Misses the Person
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ellen de Visser This episode explores That One Patient by Ellen de…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Social Transformation of American Medicine — Why Fragmentation Preserves Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Paul Starr This episode explores The Social Transformation of American…
Crisis in PerceptionLimits to Medicine — Why More Healthcare Can Produce More Sickness
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ivan Illich This episode explores Limits to Medicine by Ivan Illich as…
Crisis in PerceptionMaddAddam — The System That Tried to Engineer Humanity Away
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Margaret Atwood This Mini Explainer introduces MaddAddam by Margaret…
Crisis in PerceptionOryx and Crake — When Biology Becomes a Corporate Product
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Margaret Atwood This episode explores Oryx and Crake by Margaret…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Year of the Flood — Why Systems That Monetize Life Engineer Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Margaret Atwood This episode explores The Year of the Flood by…
Crisis in PerceptionParable of the Talents — Why Adaptation Threatens Rigid Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Octavia E. Butler This episode explores Parable of the Talents by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Real Zombies of Nature — What Happens When Behavior Gets Hijacked
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores The Real Zombies of…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Science of Genius — Why Intelligence Alone Doesn’t Produce Genius
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores The Science of…
Crisis in PerceptionAddiction Science — Why the Brain Keeps Wanting What It No Longer Enjoys
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores this Scientific…
Crisis in PerceptionAutomating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor — The Digital Poorhouse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Virginia Eubanks This episode explores Automating Inequality: How…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Do We Still Have the Electoral College? — Why Broken Systems Resist Reform
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Alexander Keyssar This episode explores Why Do We Still Have the…
Crisis in PerceptionAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder — Why Stability Creates Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb This episode explores Antifragile: Things That…
Crisis in PerceptionThe AI Revolution: Harnessing the Power of Intelligent Machines & Unleashing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence — The System Behind Algorithmic Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: William Harris This episode explores The AI Revolution: Harnessing the…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Future of Energy — Why Clean Power Needs a New Grid
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores The Future of Energy…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Poverty of Growth — What Happens When Prosperity Depends on Endless Growth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Olivier De Schutter This episode explores The Poverty of Growth by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Science of Pain — Why the Brain Can Create Suffering Without Injury
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American editors and contributing researchers. This episode…
Crisis in PerceptionPrivacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data — Surveillance as Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Carissa Véliz This episode explores Privacy Is Power: Why and How You…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Sleep Science — The System That Rebuilds Human Perception
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores the Scientific…
Crisis in PerceptionUnwatchable — Why Infinite Visibility Still Hides the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Nicholas Baer et al. This episode explores Unwatchable by Nicholas…
Crisis in PerceptionAngry White Men — Why Economic Decline Becomes Cultural Rage
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Michael Kimmel This episode explores Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel…
Crisis in PerceptionRealizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form — Why Markets Rewrite Human Nature
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anna Kornbluh This episode explores Realizing Capital: Financial and…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities — The System Behind Institutional Sclerosis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mancur Olson This episode explores The Rise and Decline of Nations…
Crisis in PerceptionOne Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture — When Survival Becomes the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Kenneth D. Rose This episode explores One Nation Underground by…
Crisis in PerceptionMurder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland — When Police Managed the Black Market
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy This episode explores Murder &…
Crisis in PerceptionPrisoners of Politics — Why Criminal Justice Ignores Public Safety Data
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rachel Elise Barkow This episode explores Prisoners of Politics by…
Crisis in PerceptionBlack Holes: Going to Extremes — When Physics Breaks Its Own Rules
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores Black Holes: Going…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Mobile Technology and the Brain — The System Behind Screen Dependence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American contributors. This episode explores Scientific…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Time — Why the Present May Be an Illusion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores Time by Scientific American…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Changing Face of War — When Civilian Infrastructure Becomes the Battlefield
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores The Changing Face of…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Neuroscience & Learning — Why Schools Fight Human Biology
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores a Scientific American…
Crisis in PerceptionAmazing Animals — Why Humans Misread Animal Intelligence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores Amazing Animals by…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American Chemistry Collection — The Thermodynamic System Behind Civilization
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores the Scientific American…
Crisis in PerceptionIQ2O: Getting Smart About Water — Why Modern Infrastructure Creates Scarcity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores IQ2O: Getting Smart…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Science of Monsters — Why the Brain Is Easier to Manipulate Than We Think
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores The Science of Monsters as a…
Crisis in PerceptionNavigating Anxiety & Depression — Why Modern Systems Keep Brains in Survival Mode
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores Navigating Anxiety &…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Early Child Development — Why Human Helplessness Creates Intelligence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores early child development as a…
Crisis in PerceptionHis Brain, Her Brain — The Gender-Neutral Trap in Medicine and Culture
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores His Brain, Her Brain by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Evolution of American Investigative Journalism — The Objectivity Trap
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: James L. Aucoin This episode explores The Evolution of American…
Crisis in PerceptionWhat's to Become of the Boy? Or, Something to Do with Books — The System Behind Quiet Complicity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Heinrich Böll This episode explores What's to Become of the Boy? Or…
Crisis in PerceptionWomen: Why Equality, Health and Safety Matter to Everyone — The System Behind “Normal”
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores Women: Why Equality…
Crisis in PerceptionRed Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine — When Starvation Became State Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anne Applebaum This episode explores Red Famine: Stalin’s War on…
Crisis in PerceptionThe American Crisis: What Went Wrong. How We Recover. — When Chaos Becomes Incentivized
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Various contributors from The Atlantic This episode explores Unraveled…
Crisis in PerceptionAutocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World — The Network Behind Dictatorship
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anne Applebaum This episode explores Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators…
Crisis in PerceptionAuthoritarian Practices in a Global Age — What Accountability Sabotage Reveals
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Marlies Glasius This episode explores Authoritarian Practices in a…
Crisis in PerceptionIron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 — How States Erase Civil Society
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anne Applebaum This episode explores Iron Curtain: The Crushing of…
Crisis in PerceptionGulag Voices — The System Where Survival Required Lying
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anne Applebaum This episode explores Gulag Voices by Anne Applebaum as…
Crisis in PerceptionGulag: A History — The System Behind Soviet Forced Labor
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anne Applebaum This episode explores Gulag: A History by Anne…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Ethics in Science — When Institutions Reward Ethical Failure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores this Scientific American…
Crisis in PerceptionScientific American: Sex, Gender and Identity — Why Binary Systems Persist
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores Scientific American…
Crisis in PerceptionWild Ideas in Science — Why Rigid Systems Keep Failing
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores World Changing Ideas…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Science Behind the Debates — Why Facts Fail Against Identity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American Editors This episode explores Scientific American…
Crisis in PerceptionSecrets of the Brain — Why Perception Is Built on Prediction and Maintenance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Scientific American This episode explores The Brain Entwined by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe New Science of Healthy Aging — Why Survival Systems Accelerate Aging
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Editors of Scientific American This episode explores The New Science…