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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 PerceptionThe Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 — Why Logistics Became Attrition
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: James Holland This episode explores The Savage Storm: The Battle for…
Crisis in PerceptionThe New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics — The System Behind Outrage
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Michael Malice This episode explores The New Right: A Journey to the…
Crisis in PerceptionCivil War by Other Means — How a defeated system kept fighting
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jeremi Suri This episode explores Civil War by Other Means by Jeremi…
Crisis in PerceptionI Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt — Debt, Labor, and Survival
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Madeline Pendleton This episode explores I Survived Capitalism and All…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water — The Invisibility Trap
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Charles Fishman This episode explores The Big Thirst: The Secret Life…
Crisis in PerceptionLiving with Water Scarcity — Why Cheap Water Produces Shortages
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Zetland This episode explores Living with Water Scarcity by…
Crisis in PerceptionBeing Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking — Why Smart People Still Reason Badly
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: D. Q. McInerny This episode explores Being Logical: A Guide to Good…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Captured Economy — How Rules Redistribute Wealth Upward
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles This episode explores The Captured…
Crisis in PerceptionWinner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — How Politics Built Inequality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson This episode explores Winner-Take-All…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation — The Subsidy System Behind “Job Creation”
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Greg LeRoy This episode explores The Great American Jobs Scam…
Crisis in PerceptionAnimal Liberation — The Boundary That Decides Whose Suffering Counts
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Peter Singer This episode explores Animal Liberation by Peter Singer…
Crisis in PerceptionCatch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake — The System Behind Fake Authority
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Frank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding This episode explores Catch Me If…
Crisis in PerceptionVoices for Animal Liberation — The System Behind Speciesism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Brittany Michelson This episode explores Voices for Animal Liberation…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part — Why Emotion Misallocates Compassion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Peter Singer This episode explores The Life You Can Save by Peter…
Crisis in PerceptionMycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World — The Network Beneath Us
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Paul Stamets This episode explores Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can…
Crisis in PerceptionSustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management — Why Disposal Is a Design Failure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dr. Salah El-Haggar This episode explores Sustainable Industrial…
Crisis in PerceptionWaste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash — When Recycling Exports Liability
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Alexander Clapp This episode explores Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife…
Crisis in PerceptionDoubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health — The Certainty Trap
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Michaels This episode explores Doubt Is Their Product: How…
Crisis in PerceptionShape — The Hidden Geometry Behind Power, AI, and Prediction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jordan Ellenberg This episode explores Shape by Jordan Ellenberg as a…
Crisis in PerceptionHow Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking — Why Winners Mislead Us
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jordan Ellenberg This episode explores How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan…
Crisis in PerceptionNaked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data — When Numbers Hide the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Charles Wheelan This episode explores Naked Statistics by Charles…
Crisis in PerceptionDinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology — When Better Tools Rewrite the Past
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Michael J. Benton This episode explores Dinosaurs Rediscovered by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Seismic Atlas of the Messinian Salinity Crisis — When Evidence Hides the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author/Editor: J. Lofi and contributors This episode explores The Seismic…
Crisis in PerceptionBubbles: The Science of Bubbles — Why Empty Space Runs Real Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Helen Czerski This episode explores Bubbles by Helen Czerski as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works — The Engine Beneath Civilization
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Helen Czerski This episode explores The Blue Machine: How the Ocean…
Crisis in PerceptionStorm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life — Why Ordinary Objects Reveal Everything
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Helen Czerski This episode explores Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of…
Crisis in PerceptionGlacial Lake Missoula: The Scablands Floods — Why Stability Can Hide Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Alt This episode explores Glacial Lake Missoula by David Alt as…
Crisis in PerceptionFrozen Earth — Why Stable Climate May Be the Exception
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Doug Macdougall This episode explores Frozen Earth by Doug Macdougall…
Crisis in PerceptionChicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami — When Energy Becomes Extinction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Shonting and Cathy Ezrailson This episode explores Chicxulub…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Body: A Guide for Occupants — Why the Body Is Not a Machine
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Bill Bryson This episode explores The Body: A Guide for Occupants by…
Crisis in PerceptionA Short History of Nearly Everything: Subtitle — Why Fragile Systems Produce Us
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Bill Bryson This episode explores A Short History of Nearly Everything…
Crisis in PerceptionReality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity — Why Time May Not Be Fundamental
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Carlo Rovelli This episode explores Reality Is Not What It Seems by…
Crisis in PerceptionOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Why People Defend the Systems That Break Them
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ken Kesey This episode explores One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken…
Crisis in PerceptionHow to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe — The Building Block Illusion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Harry Cliff This episode explores How to Make an Apple Pie from…
Crisis in PerceptionSpace Oddities: The System Behind Scientific Anomalies
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Harry Cliff This episode explores Space Oddities by Harry Cliff as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Golden Compass — What Happens When Innocence Becomes Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Philip Pullman This episode explores The Golden Compass by Philip…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Grapes of Wrath — Why Abundance Produces Starvation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: John Steinbeck This episode explores The Grapes of Wrath by John…
Crisis in PerceptionGlobalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism — How Markets Were Encased by Law
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Quinn Slobodian This episode explores Globalists: The End of Empire…
Crisis in PerceptionClimate Action — Why Global Consensus Can Block Climate Progress
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Charles Sabel and David Victor This episode explores Climate Action by…
Crisis in PerceptionAmerica's Education Deficit and the War on Youth — When the Social State Becomes Punitive
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Henry A. Giroux This episode explores America's Education Deficit and…
Crisis in PerceptionUnderstanding Marxism — The Workplace System Behind Inequality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Richard D. Wolff This episode explores Understanding Marxism by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Sickness is the System — Why Crisis Looks Like an Accident
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Richard D. Wolff This episode explores The Sickness is the System by…
Crisis in PerceptionSlow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor — When Harm Moves Too Slowly to See
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rob Nixon This episode explores Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Capital Order — When Economic Pain Becomes System Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Clara E. Mattei This episode explores The Capital Order by Clara E…
Crisis in PerceptionWhen Women Stop Hating Their Bodies — Why Dieting Produces the Crisis It Claims to Solve
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jane Hirschmann and Carol Munter This episode explores When Women Stop…
Crisis in PerceptionEvolving Tomorrow — When Evolution Becomes a Human Technology
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Asher D. Cutter This episode explores Evolving Tomorrow by Asher D…
Crisis in PerceptionLife — What If Organisms Are Just Vehicles for Information?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: John Brockman This episode explores Life by John Brockman as a…
Crisis in PerceptionLife 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — Alignment, Power, and Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Max Tegmark This episode explores Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable — Why Human Intelligence Is Not an Exception
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Suzana Herculano-Houzel This episode explores The Human Advantage: A…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste — The system beneath reform
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Arundhati Roy This episode explores The Doctor and the Saint: Caste…
Crisis in PerceptionAt the Dark End of the Street — The hidden system behind the bus boycott
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Danielle L. McGuire This episode explores At the Dark End of the…
Crisis in PerceptionWe Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions — The system behind losing yourself to survive
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle This episode explores We…
Crisis in PerceptionDuped — Why Trust Creates the Perfect Opening for Deception
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Abby Ellin This episode explores Duped by Abby Ellin as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Human Condition — Why Productivity Can Undermine Human Freedom
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Hannah Arendt This episode explores The Human Condition by Hannah…
Crisis in PerceptionThe British Empire: How it was built – and how it fell (All you need to know) — Why expansion produced collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Piers Brendon; Jolyon Connell This episode explores The British…
Crisis in PerceptionKnow-it-all Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture — Why certainty wins online
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Michael Patrick Lynch This episode explores Know-it-all Society: Truth…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Everything Guide to Nootropics — Why Modern Life Produces Cognitive Burnout
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Evan Brand This episode explores The Everything Guide to Nootropics by…
Crisis in PerceptionAlan Watts — Why Feeling Separate Creates Conflict
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Alan Watts This episode explores the philosophy of Alan Watts as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Handbook of Emotions: Fourth Edition — Why emotion is not the opposite of reason
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michael Lewis, and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones…
Crisis in PerceptionProtecting Pollinators: Why We Need Bees, Flies, and Other Pollinators — The Hidden Network Behind Food
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jodi Helmer This episode explores Protecting Pollinators by Jodi…