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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 PerceptionThis Is How You Vagina — When Normal Biology Becomes a Market Problem
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dr. Nicole E. Williams This episode explores This Is How You Vagina by…
Crisis in PerceptionNot in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature — When inequality becomes biology
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin This episode explores…
Crisis in PerceptionSeven and a Half Lessons About the Brain — Why Familiar Beliefs Cost Less Than Truth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett This episode explores Seven and a Half Lessons…
Crisis in PerceptionKL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps — Why Bureaucracy Scaled Terror
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Nikolaus Wachsmann This episode explores KL: A History of the Nazi…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Normans: From Raiders to Kings — The system behind the conquest
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Lars Brownworth This episode explores The Normans: From Raiders to…
Crisis in PerceptionLost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization — The Survival System Behind the West
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Lars Brownworth This episode explores Lost to the West by Lars…
Crisis in PerceptionIn Distant Lands: A Short History of the Crusades — Why holy war produced fragmentation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Lars Brownworth This episode explores In Distant Lands: A Short…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Sea Wolves: Viking Expansion and Assimilation — Why disruption became rule
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Lars Brownworth This episode explores The Sea Wolves by Lars…
Crisis in PerceptionRUSSIA UKRAINE CONFLICT: How it all started and what you need to know presently — Why peace fails
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Kyrylo Sebastian This episode explores RUSSIA UKRAINE CONFLICT: How it…
Crisis in PerceptionNow What?: A Guide to Figuring Out How to Move Forward — Why Disagreement Becomes Breakdown
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers This episode explores Now…
Crisis in PerceptionFive Ideas to Fight For — Why rights need constraints beyond majority rule
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anthony Lester This episode explores Five Ideas to Fight For by…
Crisis in PerceptionPlay like a Feminist — The hidden politics of leisure and play
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Shira Chess This episode explores Play like a Feminist by Shira Chess…
Crisis in PerceptionBorn to Create — Why organizations demand creativity but reward conformity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Anne Jacoby This episode explores Born to Create by Anne Jacoby as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe First of Everything — Why Human Invention Is Never Really First
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Stewart Ross This episode explores The First of Everything by Stewart…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Little Book of Aliens — Why Advanced Life May Be Easiest to Find Through Its Waste
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Adam Frank This episode explores The Little Book of Aliens by Adam…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy We Sleep — When productivity turns biological limits into public risk
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Matthew Walker This episode explores Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker as…
Crisis in PerceptionDeep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves — The Interface Problem
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: James Nestor This episode explores Deep by James Nestor as a…
Crisis in PerceptionSeven Brief Lessons on Physics — What modern physics actually reveals
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Carlo Rovelli This episode explores Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Dark Net: Hidden Digital Underworlds — What Anonymity Reveals Without Consequences
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jamie Bartlett This episode explores The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett as…
Crisis in PerceptionMemes of Misinformation: Federal Spending — When the Measuring Stick Becomes the Story
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Julio C. Castañeda Jr. This episode explores Memes of Misinformation…
Crisis in PerceptionWaste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret — When sanitation becomes private law
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Catherine Coleman Flowers This episode explores Waste: One Woman’s…
Crisis in PerceptionHoly Ground — When Neglect Becomes a Function of Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Catherine Coleman Flowers This episode explores Holy Ground by…
Crisis in PerceptionCorruptible: Who Gets Power? — The Hidden Filter Behind Bad Leadership
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Brian Klaas This episode explores Corruptible by Brian Klaas as a…
Crisis in PerceptionA First-Class Catastrophe: Black Monday — When Risk Management Became Risk Transmission
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Diana B. Henriques This episode explores A First-Class Catastrophe by…
Crisis in PerceptionApocalypse How?: Network Fragility — Why Efficiency Can Produce Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sir Oliver Letwin This episode explores Apocalypse How? by Sir Oliver…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust — The trust failure behind the fraud
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Diana B. Henriques This episode explores The Wizard of Lies: Bernie…
Crisis in PerceptionThe People Vs Tech — The System Behind Democratic Drift
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jamie Bartlett This episode explores The People Vs Tech by Jamie…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con — The system behind fake trust
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jamie Bartlett This episode explores The Missing Cryptoqueen by Jamie…
Crisis in PerceptionEmpire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty — What philanthropy concealed
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Patrick Radden Keefe This episode explores Empire of Pain: The Secret…
Crisis in PerceptionToo Big to Fail — When Risk Distribution Became Systemic Contagion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin This episode explores Too Big to Fail by Andrew…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Talented Mr. Ripley: Identity and Class — The System Behind Believable Fraud
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Patricia Highsmith This episode explores The Talented Mr. Ripley by…
Crisis in PerceptionRed Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice — Law and Looting
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Bill Browder This episode explores Red Notice: A True Story of High…
Crisis in PerceptionMindfck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America* — When data bypasses agency
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Christopher Wylie This episode explores Mindfck: Cambridge Analytica…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron — Why Profit Detached from Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind This episode explores The Smartest…
Crisis in PerceptionNumber Go Up: Crypto Mania and Synthetic Money — Why Decentralization Needed Tether
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Zeke Faux This episode explores Number Go Up by Zeke Faux as a…
Crisis in PerceptionDen of Thieves — What This Actually Reveals About Wall Street Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: James B. Stewart This episode explores Den of Thieves by James B…
Crisis in PerceptionThe King of Con — Why criminal and corporate systems converge
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Thomas Giacomaro and Natasha Stoynoff This episode explores The King…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time — Why Trust Produces the Mark
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Maria Konnikova This episode explores The Confidence Game: Why We Fall…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win — When Outcomes Lie
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Maria Konnikova This episode explores The Biggest Bluff by Maria…
Crisis in PerceptionBillion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World — Why legitimacy enables theft
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Tom Wright and Bradley Hope This episode explores Billion Dollar…
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The Great Impostor: The Amazing Careers of Ferdinand Waldo Demara — When credentials replace proof
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Robert Crichton This episode explores The Great Impostor: The Amazing…
Crisis in PerceptionBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — When prestige replaces proof
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: John Carreyrou This episode explores Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War — The system behind permanent progress
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Craig Whitlock This episode explores The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret…
Crisis in PerceptionFat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy — The System Behind the Scandal
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Craig Whitlock This episode explores Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed…
Crisis in PerceptionBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity — Why Poverty Turns Sideways
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Katherine Boo This episode explores Behind the Beautiful Forevers by…
Crisis in PerceptionKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI — Protection as Extraction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Grann This episode explores Killers of the Flower Moon: The…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — Why Small Causes Create Big Change
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Malcolm Gladwell This episode explores The Tipping Point: How Little…
Crisis in PerceptionUltra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn’t Food — Why Willpower Keeps Failing
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Chris van Tulleken This episode explores Ultra-Processed People: The…
Crisis in PerceptionRotten to the (Common) Core — The system behind testing, sorting, and surveillance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Joseph P. Farrell and Gary Lawrence This episode explores Rotten to…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Your Lifestyle is Killing You — Why Processed Food Produces Predictable Illness
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Juan Williams This episode explores Why Your Lifestyle is Killing You…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Future of Civic Education — Why civic literacy can preserve anti-democratic systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Elizabeth Yeager Washington and Keith C. Barton This episode explores…
Crisis in PerceptionPolitical Science For Dummies — Why Legitimacy Depends on Managed Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Marcus A. Stadelmann This episode explores Political Science For…
Crisis in PerceptionNew Prize for These Eyes — When visibility fuels backlash
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Juan Williams This episode explores New Prize for These Eyes by Juan…
Crisis in PerceptionEyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965 — The System Behind Change
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Juan Williams This episode explores Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil…
Crisis in PerceptionWhat the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights — The System Behind Rollback
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Juan Williams This episode explores What the Hell Do You Have to…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Next Big Thing: A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time — Why absurd systems keep returning
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rhodri Marsden This episode explores The Next Big Thing: A Rough Guide…
Crisis in PerceptionCensored 2019 — Who gets to define fake news?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth This episode explores Censored 2019 by…
Crisis in PerceptionNo More Champagne: Churchill and His Money — The hidden economy behind political independence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: David Lough This episode explores No More Champagne: Churchill and His…
Crisis in PerceptionExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Volume 1 — The system behind herd mania
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Charles Mackay This episode explores Extraordinary Popular Delusions…
Crisis in PerceptionCritical Race Theory and Jordan Peele’s Get Out — The system behind polite racism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Kevin Wynter This episode explores Critical Race Theory and Jordan…