All episodes
The Trouble With Big Data — When Data Becomes the Reality
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World — When Private Risk Becomes Public Debt
Princeton Readings in American Politics — How Power Actually Works
How to Resist Amazon and Why — The Hidden Costs of Convenience
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling — Community Infrastructure
Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way — When Broadcast Dominance Broke
Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It — How Data Rewired Media
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film — The Indie Machine
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ’n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After — Why Breakups Become Battles
China's Great Road — Who Directs Development?
Gone Girl — When Identity Becomes Performance
When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough — The Hidden Aftermath of Gun Violence
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 — How Campaign Narratives Shape Reality
Expand Social Security Now!: How to Ensure Americans Get the Retirement They Deserve — Risk Transfer
The Jungle — When Hard Work Doesn't Create Security
Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics — When Rules Shape Power
Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News — The Dependency Trap
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith — Faith, Nation & Power
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress — When Institutions Depend on Power
Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy — When Feedback Fails
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It — Dependence Corruption
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred — Who Gets to See?
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For — Why Democracy Can't Be Outsourced
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times — How Culture Shaped Lincoln
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) — Captured Power
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago — How Political Machines Turn Service Into Power
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession — The Feedback Loop of Bias
The Untold History of the United States — How American Power Became a System
Working — Why Some Jobs Give Dignity and Others Take It Away
The Power of Myth — How Stories Become Social Infrastructure
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West — When the Frontier Closed In
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
The Hidden History of American Democracy — Who Invented Democracy?
The Hidden History of Big Brother in America — How Surveillance Becomes Power
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care — Who Gets Care?
The Opioid Fix: America’s Addiction Crisis and the Solution They Don’t Want You to Have
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America — How Lies Become Power
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America — Power as Performance
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster — When Safety Margins Collapse
Into the Wild — The Hidden Cost of Radical Self-Reliance
How to Spot a Fascist — When Authoritarianism Changes Its Clothes
How Democratic Is the American Constitution? — Political Equality and Constitutional Design
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress — Why Authority Depends on Obedience
The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam — When Metrics Replace Reality
Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry — How Rigged Incentives Reward Extraction
Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits From Poverty — The Poverty Industry
Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance — When Deficits Become Power
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause” — Public Memory
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional — Creativity, Cooperation & Evolution
Circe — When Immortality Becomes a Cage
Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America — How Inequality Reproduces Itself
Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Wrongdoings?
The Song of Achilles — What Glory Erases
Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics — Beyond the Mandate
History of the Great American Fortunes — How Wealth Becomes Power
The Betrayal of American Prosperity — When Cheap Becomes Expensive
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity — The System Behind the Great Acceleration
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — How Platforms Become Power
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation — Stable Forms, Changing Meaning
The Face of Imperialism — Who Gains and Who Pays?
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters — The Security State
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces — The Institutional Ratchet
The Strangest Secret — Agency, Attention, and the Limits of Positive Thinking
Decent Interval — When Intelligence Fails to Become Action
Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present — Capitalism Needs an Outside
Why More Mormons Should Be Democrats: And Why America Should Pay Attention — Inherited Politics
Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions — When Race Is Morally Relevant
Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) — Rights vs. Power
Blood in My Eye — Repression, Legitimacy, and Revolutionary Politics
Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations — Who Inherits the Debt?
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy — How a Virus Exposed the Global System
Melt Down: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse — When Trust Runs Out
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy — The Limits of Nazi Power
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens — How Pluralism Corrects Error
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War — How Fear Became Evidence
Howard Zinn on Democratic Education — Who Decides What Schools Teach?
Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse — Coercive Mobility
These Truths: A History of the United States — Who Gets to Define American Truth?
What It Takes: The Way to the White House — How Campaigns Shape Candidates
Socialism: A Very Short Introduction — How Ideals Become Institutions
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty — Managed Opinion
The Civil War: A Narrative — The System Behind Victory and Collapse
Showa 1944–1953: A History of Japan — When Strategy Stops Correcting Itself
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Third Edition — How Systems Reproduce Inequality
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment — How Disparity Compounds
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks — When History Becomes an Unpaid Obligation
Their Eyes Were Watching God — Who Gets to Define a Life?
Zion Reconsidered — Can a State Define a People?
Munitions of the Mind — How Persuasion Becomes Power
A History of Violence — Why Violence Has a Memory
The Culture Struggle — Michael Parenti on Culture, Power, and Social Conflict
Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950–1953 — Who Controls the War Story?
It's Up to the Women — How Private Choices Shape Public Resilience
The Secret History of Wonder Woman — How Feminism Became a Superhero
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death — Who Defines a Successful Life?
When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough — The Hidden Aftermath of Gun Violence