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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 Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality — Violence as a Leveling Mechanism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire — State Power and Global Markets
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger — Inequality, Status Stress, and Social Breakdown
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies…
Crisis in PerceptionThe New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression — Structural Violence & Market Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy…
Crisis in PerceptionNo Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need — Shock Politics as a System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionBad Paper: Chasing Debt From Wall Street to the Underworld — The Debt Collection Pipeline
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Bad Paper: Chasing Debt From Wall Street to the…
Crisis in PerceptionEnergy and Civilization: A History of Power and Progress — The Energy System Beneath Modern Life
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Energy and Civilization: A History of Power and Progress…
Crisis in PerceptionHow the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future — The Industrial Energy System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History — The Anthropocene extinction system
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth…
Crisis in PerceptionHow to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide — Extractivism and Climate Injustice
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to…
Crisis in PerceptionInfluence: The Psychology of Persuasion — The compliance shortcut system
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B…
Crisis in PerceptionThe True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements — The Structure of Fanaticism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass…
Crisis in PerceptionA Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel — The South Sea Bubble and Financial Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel by David Liss as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care — System Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System — Managed Confidence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the…
Crisis in PerceptionWater: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization — Hydraulic Power Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and…
Crisis in PerceptionPrinciples for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail — Debt, Power & Imperial Cycles
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order…
Crisis in PerceptionDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Empathy as Institutional Measurement
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick…
Crisis in PerceptionTrust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator — Attention as Currency
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Common Good — Trust, Inequality, and Democratic Legitimacy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Common Good by Robert B. Reich as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionHow the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines — Cartography as Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Limits to Growth Revisited: A Reappraisal of Collapse — Modeling Overshoot
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Limits to Growth Revisited: A Reappraisal of…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Art of Thinking in Systems: Improve Your Logic, Think in Systems for Everyday Life — Feedback Loops & System Traps
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Art of Thinking in Systems: Improve Your Logic…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Great Transformation — Fictitious Commodities, the Double Movement, and Market Society
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi as a…
Crisis in PerceptionOn Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake — Kleptocracy, Legitimacy, and Network Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores On Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age — Market Structure as Governance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionLife’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive — Biology’s Unfinished Definition
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer as a systems-level analysis…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Save the Bankers? And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis — Patrimonial Capitalism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Why Save the Bankers? And Other Essays on Our Economic…
Crisis in PerceptionLess is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World — The Growth Imperative as Ecological Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Deficit Myth — Modern Monetary Theory and the Architecture of “Affordability”
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Hidden History of the War on Voting — Electoral Design and Institutional Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Hidden History of the War on Voting by Thom Hartmann…
Crisis in PerceptionFind Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World — Domestic Labor as System Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a…
Crisis in PerceptionAir-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe — The Politics of Airborne Disease
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming — Industrial Growth as Systemic Risk
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads — Attention as Commodity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside…
Crisis in PerceptionHidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment, The — Firearms & Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by…
Crisis in PerceptionHidden History of American Healthcare: The — Insurance as Structural Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Hidden History of American Healthcare by Thom…
Crisis in PerceptionFor the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports — Media, Power, and Institutional Consensus
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure — Meaning Systems and Belief Formation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure by James Redfield…
Crisis in PerceptionMoby-Dick; or, The Whale — Industrial Extraction and Monomaniacal Authority
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Hidden Half of Nature — Microbial Systems Linking Soil and Human Health
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Hidden Half of Nature by David R. Montgomery and…
Crisis in PerceptionUnf*ck Your Habitat: You’re Better Than Your Mess — Domestic Maintenance as a Behavioral System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Unfck Your Habitat: You’re Better Than Your Mess* by…
Crisis in PerceptionLet America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes — Art, Race, and Institutional Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Let America Be America Again: Conversations with…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Princess Bride — Narrative Authority & the Governance of Meaning
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Princess Bride by William Goldman as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Little Prince — How Adult Systems Redefine What Counts
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as a…
Crisis in PerceptionSiddhartha — Authority, Experience & the Illusion of Spiritual Progress
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse as a systems-level analysis…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Giver — Sameness, Control & the System Without Memory
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Giver by Lois Lowry as a systems-level analysis of…
Crisis in PerceptionNumbers Rule Your World — How Probability Governs Modern Life
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Numbers Rule Your World by Kaiser Fung as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Alchemist — Destiny, Meaning & the System of Personal Calling
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah — Reality as a Constructed System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by…
Crisis in PerceptionFreemasonry: A Very Short Introduction — Ritual, Secrecy, and Institutional Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction by Andreas…
Crisis in PerceptionJonathan Livingston Seagull — Institutional Conformity and Manufactured Limits
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach as a…
Crisis in PerceptionCleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps — Neuroplasticity and Mental Health
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess by Caroline Leaf as a…
Crisis in PerceptionImagine: A Socialist USA — Incentive Architecture Beyond Profit
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Imagine: A Socialist USA by Frances Goldin as a…
Crisis in PerceptionExperiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology — Interpretation and Institutional Authority
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology…
Crisis in PerceptionAquinas on Mind — The Scholastic System of Consciousness and Institutional Thought
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Aquinas on Mind by Anthony Kenny as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Intellectual Legacy of John Dewey — Inquiry, Habit, and Democratic Development
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Intellectual Legacy of John Dewey (J. E. Tiles) as a…
Crisis in PerceptionFIFTY KEY THINKERS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS — How Theory Becomes Policy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores FIFTY KEY THINKERS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by Martin…
Crisis in PerceptionFurther Selections from the Prison Notebooks — Cultural Hegemony Explained
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Further Selections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio…
Crisis in PerceptionScramble for the Skies — Strategic Culture and the Political Economy of Space
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Scramble for the Skies by Namrata Goswami and Peter A…