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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 End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason — Systems of Belief & Persistence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The End of Faith: Religion, Terror…
Crisis in PerceptionJesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation — Masculinity & Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Jesus and John Wayne: How White…
Crisis in PerceptionAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer — Science and State Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores American Prometheus: The Triumph…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Sum of Us: The Cost of the Zero-Sum Myth — Systems of Division
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. System Description Paragraph This episode explores The…
Crisis in PerceptionTime Is Money: A Simple System To Cure Procrastination — Incentive Architecture
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. System Description Paragraph This episode explores Time…
Crisis in PerceptionSolving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change — Incentives
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Solving the Procrastination Puzzle…
Crisis in PerceptionThe War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason — Institutional Incentives
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The War on the West: How to Prevail…
Crisis in PerceptionIslamophilia: A Very Metropolitan Malady — Reputational Incentives (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Islamophilia: A Very Metropolitan…
Crisis in PerceptionNeoConservatism: Why We Need It — Moral Clarity as Political Architecture
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores NeoConservatism: Why We Need It by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam — Structural Incentives (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Strange Death of Europe…
Crisis in PerceptionActs of Aggression: The United States and Rogue States — Selective Legality (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Acts of Aggression: The United…
Crisis in PerceptionAfter the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology — Narrative Reconstruction (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores After the Cataclysm: Postwar…
Crisis in PerceptionCrises of the Republic — Image, Power, and Credibility (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Crises of the Republic: Power…
Crisis in PerceptionThis Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving — Myth as Institutional Infrastructure (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores This Land Is Their Land: The…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Slave Uprisings that Shook the South — Resistance and Systemic Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Slave Uprisings that Shook the…
Crisis in PerceptionPropaganda — The Architecture of Public Persuasion (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Propaganda by Edward Bernays as a…
Crisis in PerceptionLessons From Walden — Incentives, Character, and Democratic Stability (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Lessons From Walden by Bob…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Wretched of the Earth — Colonialism as System Design (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz…
Crisis in PerceptionNative Son — Criminalization as System Design (Deep Dive)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Native Son by Richard Wright as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Black Experience in America — Democracy and Racial System Design (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Black Experience in America by…
Crisis in PerceptionEisenhower: The White House Years — Executive Power in the Cold War (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Eisenhower: The White House Years…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy — Adaptive Authoritarianism (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Dictator’s Learning Curve by…
Crisis in PerceptionMating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic — Erotic Tension in Modern Marriage
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel…
Crisis in PerceptionFor the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time — Systems of Scientific Authority (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores For the Love of Physics: From the…
Crisis in PerceptionFilm, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique — Cinema as Structural Refusal (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Film, Negation and Freedom…
Crisis in Perception117 Days: A Memoir of Confinement and Resistance — Emergency Law as System (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores 117 Days: A Memoir of Confinement…
Crisis in PerceptionAssata: An Autobiography — The Carceral System and Legitimacy (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Assata: An Autobiography by Assata…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood — Urban Incentive Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Beautiful Struggle: A Father…
Crisis in PerceptionActs of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time — The Divided State
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Acts of Resistance: Against the New…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration — Caste and Migration
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation — Romantic Markets Explained
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Why Love Hurts: A Sociological…
Crisis in PerceptionFeminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics — Systemic Gender Architecture
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Feminism Is for Everybody…
Crisis in PerceptionBlack Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America — Federalism & Inaction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Black Resistance/White Law: A…
Crisis in PerceptionNegrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America — Law as Bias Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future — Partnership vs Domination Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Chalice and the Blade: Our…
Crisis in PerceptionWhen God Was a Woman — Religious Systems and Gendered Authority
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores When God Was a Woman by Merlin…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories — Institutionalized Territorial Governance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Biggest Prison on Earth: A…
Crisis in PerceptionJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption — Incentives of Punishment
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America — Media Incentives and Racial Framing
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Black Image in the White Mind…
Crisis in PerceptionBlack AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America — Institutional Memory
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Black AF History: The…
Crisis in PerceptionAbolition. Feminism. Now. — Carceral Systems and Incentive Architecture (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues — Carceral Power Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Meaning of Freedom: And Other…
Crisis in PerceptionAmerican Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World — Colonial Systems of Extraction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores American Holocaust: Columbus and…
Crisis in PerceptionEmptiness — The Structural Power of Religious Absence (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Emptiness by John Corrigan as a…
Crisis in PerceptionHow to Blow Up a Pipeline — Infrastructure, Incentives, and Lock-In (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores How to Blow Up a Pipeline by…
Crisis in PerceptionVenice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City — Trade, Power, and Persistence (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Venice: The Remarkable History of…
Crisis in PerceptionThey Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 — How Authoritarian Systems Normalize
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores They Thought They Were Free: The…
Crisis in PerceptionWoke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice — Institutional Incentives & Racial Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Woke Church: An Urgent Call for…
Crisis in PerceptionChristianity Without God: The Moral Epic of Sacred Metaphor — Sacred Authority Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Christianity Without God: The Moral…
Crisis in PerceptionThe School of Life — Emotional Education vs. Institutional Design (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The School of Life as a…
Crisis in PerceptionCreating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity — Empire as Narrative Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors…
Crisis in PerceptionThe House That Race Built — Race as Institutional Architecture (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The House That Race Built by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Withdrawal: Imperialism and the Godfather Attitude — Structural Power (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Withdrawal: Imperialism and the…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Power of Mindful Learning — Cognitive Rigidity as System Design (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Power of Mindful Learning by…
Crisis in PerceptionInvisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color — Structural Invisibility (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Invisible No More: Police Violence…
Crisis in PerceptionBlues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday — Cultural Economy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Blues Legacies and Black Feminism…
Crisis in PerceptionOccupy: Scenes and Dispatches from the Movement — Protest as System (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Occupy: Scenes and Dispatches from…
Crisis in PerceptionBad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics — Religious Systems in Transition
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Bad Religion: How We Became a…
Crisis in PerceptionPerception: How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds — Embodied Cognition Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Perception: How Our Bodies Shape…
Crisis in PerceptionProfiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber — Media Incentives
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Profiles in Ignorance: How…