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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 Con: How to Protect Yourself from Scams, Frauds and Cons — Why Trust Becomes the Attack Surface
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: James Munton and Jelita McLeod This episode explores The Con: How to…
Crisis in PerceptionEverything Is Bullshit — The system behind manufactured value
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Priceonomics This episode explores Everything Is Bullshit by…
Crisis in PerceptionBernie Bros Gone Woke — What Progressive Neoliberalism Actually Protects
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Marc James Léger This episode explores Bernie Bros Gone Woke by Marc…
Crisis in PerceptionReligion and the Ku Klux Klan — How sacred language legitimized racial power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Juan O. Sánchez This episode explores Religion and the Ku Klux Klan by…
Crisis in PerceptionTaking the Red Pill: The Matrix and Philosophy — The system behind perceived reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Glenn Yeffeth (Editor) This episode explores Taking the Red Pill: The…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Spoils of War — Why failed wars keep funding the system
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Andrew Cockburn This episode explores The Spoils of War by Andrew…
Crisis in PerceptionTeeth — Why Bad Teeth Become a Class Marker
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mary Otto This episode explores Teeth by Mary Otto as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Great American Health Hoax — Why Disease Care Profits From Staying Fragmented
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Raymond Francis This episode explores The Great American Health Hoax…
Crisis in PerceptionTrampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem and Fixes — When Scale Penalizes Empathy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Maëlle Gavet This episode explores Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s…
Crisis in PerceptionVision: A Story of Deep Time — When Survival Systems Create Extinction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Destiny universe lore / narrative source material This episode…
Crisis in PerceptionLife Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning — Why Meaning Requires No Master
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dan Barker This episode explores Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist…
Crisis in PerceptionAmerican Crusade: How the Supreme Court Weaponizes Religious Freedom — When Freedom Becomes Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Andrew Seidel This episode explores American Crusade: How the Supreme…
Crisis in PerceptionCrossing the American Health Care Chasm — Why polarization produces policy failure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Donald A. Barr This episode explores Crossing the American Health Care…
Crisis in PerceptionReinventing American Health Care: Why Complexity Protects the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel This episode explores Reinventing American Health…
Crisis in PerceptionNagasaki: Life After Nuclear War — The system that hid the survivors
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Susan Southard This episode explores Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War…
Crisis in PerceptionMuzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate — Why Honest Debate Becomes Professionally Dangerous
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Juan Williams This episode explores Muzzled: The Assault on Honest…
Crisis in PerceptionLicensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice — The Information Chokepoint
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sidney Powell This episode explores Licensed to Lie: Exposing…
Crisis in PerceptionMental Health, Inc.: The High Cost of Institutional Failure — When Care Rewards Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Art Levine This episode explores Mental Health, Inc.: The High Cost of…
Crisis in PerceptionKeynes: The Return of the Master — When markets price the unknowable
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Robert Skidelsky This episode explores Keynes: The Return of the…
Crisis in PerceptionBeyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society — Why Security Reduces Religious Demand
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun This episode…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Bible Says So: Data Over Dogma — Who Gets to Decide What the Bible Means?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dan McClellan This episode explores The Bible Says So: Data Over Dogma…
Crisis in PerceptionConfessions of a Scary Mommy: The Realities of Motherhood — The System Behind Ideal Motherhood
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jill Smokler This episode explores Confessions of a Scary Mommy: The…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Haves and the Have-Nots: A Global History of Inequality — Citizenship as Economic Destiny
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Branko Milanovic This episode explores The Haves and the Have-Nots: A…
Crisis in PerceptionBlack Eye for America: Critical Race Theory and Its Impact — The system behind the language
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Carol Swain and Christopher Schorr This episode explores Black Eye for…
Crisis in PerceptionA Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Science and Rationality — When Survival Is Mistaken for Truth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Richard Dawkins This episode explores A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Why absurd systems hide real power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Douglas Adams This episode explores The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life — Who Decides Which Lives Fully Count?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: John Lechte This episode explores The Human: Bare Life and Ways of…
Crisis in PerceptionAre Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues — When Neutral Law Protects Hierarchy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Catharine A. MacKinnon This episode explores Are Women Human? And…
Crisis in PerceptionThe American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Lives — The Safety Net That Strips Assets
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sasha Abramsky This episode explores The American Way of Poverty: How…
Crisis in PerceptionJumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear in America — When Fear Becomes Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sasha Abramsky This episode explores Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph…
Crisis in PerceptionBlackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army — Why the State Rents Force
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jeremy Scahill. This episode explores Blackwater: The Rise of the…
Crisis in PerceptionDirty Wars — How Emergency Power Became Permanent War
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jeremy Scahill. This episode explores Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill as…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Assassination Complex: Inside the Secret Drone Warfare Program — The System Behind Remote Killing
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jeremy Scahill and the staff of The Intercept. This episode explores…
Crisis in PerceptionTopology of Violence: The Metamorphosis of Modern Force — When Freedom Becomes Force
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Byung-Chul Han This episode explores Topology of Violence: The…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Agony of Eros: Why Love Hurts — When Freedom Becomes Self-Exploitation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Byung-Chul Han This episode explores The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul…
Crisis in PerceptionYou Can Do Anything — Why “Practical” Careers Can Be the Least Secure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: George Anders This episode explores You Can Do Anything by George…
Crisis in PerceptionNothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion — The System Behind Empty Space
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jeremy Webb This episode explores Nothing: Surprising Insights…
Crisis in PerceptionEvolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't) — The Costs of Being Human
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Alex Bezzerides This episode explores Evolution Gone Wrong by Alex…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science — The system behind stubborn belief
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Will Storr This episode explores The Unpersuadables by Will Storr as a…
Crisis in PerceptionDirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life — When cleanliness hides the system
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Various contributors (Wellcome Collection companion volume) This…
Crisis in PerceptionDeep Sea and Foreign Going — Why Global Trade Depends on Invisibility
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rose George This episode explores Deep Sea and Foreign Going by Rose…
Crisis in PerceptionA Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World — When refuge becomes management
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rose George This episode explores A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste — Why sanitation stays invisible
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rose George This episode explores The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable…
Crisis in PerceptionNine Pints: The Medicine and Mystery of Blood — When Life Becomes a Market
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rose George This episode explores Nine Pints: The Medicine and Mystery…
Crisis in PerceptionTotalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism — Why terror needs loneliness
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Hannah Arendt This episode explores Totalitarianism: Part Three of The…
Crisis in PerceptionImperialism: The Origins of Totalitarianism Part Two — Why rights fail without a state
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Hannah Arendt This episode explores Imperialism: The Origins of…
Crisis in PerceptionAntisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism — What scapegoating actually reveals
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Hannah Arendt This episode explores Antisemitism: Part One of The…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Gift of Violence — Why Politeness Can Make You Easier to Hunt
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Matt Thornton This episode explores The Gift of Violence by Matt…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Snowden Files: Secret Law and Mass Surveillance — When Privacy Becomes Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Luke Harding This episode explores The Snowden Files by Luke Harding…
Crisis in PerceptionMegamedia: How Giant Corporations Dominate Mass Media, Distort Competition, and Endanger Democracy — The System Behind the Illusion of Choice
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dean Alger This episode explores Megamedia: How Giant Corporations…
Crisis in PerceptionHow to Rig an Election — Why More Elections Can Mean Less Democracy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas This episode explores How to Rig an…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Burnout Society — Why Freedom Can Produce Exhaustion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Byung-Chul Han This episode explores The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul…
Crisis in PerceptionWhat If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions — When Scale Breaks Intuition
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Randall Munroe This episode explores What If?: Serious Scientific…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing — When “Normal” Produces Sickness
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté. This episode explores The Myth of Normal…
Crisis in PerceptionScattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder — The System Behind Attention
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Gabor Maté This episode explores Scattered Minds: The Origins and…
Crisis in PerceptionNutrivore: The Radical New Science of Nutrient-Focused Eating — Why restriction creates deficiency
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dr. Sarah Ballantyne This episode explores Nutrivore: The Radical New…
Crisis in PerceptionFat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar and Disease — Why sickness hides behind weight
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Robert Lustig This episode explores Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About…
Crisis in PerceptionCults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out — Why Leaving Feels More Rational Than Truth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rick Alan Ross This episode explores Cults Inside Out: How People Get…
Crisis in PerceptionWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death — The System Behind Death Literacy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Caitlin Doughty This episode explores Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by…
Crisis in PerceptionAre Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice and Racism Became Markers of Insanity — The System Behind the Diagnosis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas This episode explores Are Racists…