All episodes
The Words We Live By: The Constitution as a Living System
America's Constitution: A Biography — Why the Constitution Was Designed to Evolve
The Fourth of July and the Founding of America — How Nations Create Founding Myths
The Constitution of the United States — The Hidden Machine Behind American Government
The Declaration of Independence Wasn't Signed on July 4th — Why Nations Remember Symbols
Bill of Rights — The Hidden System That Limits Government Power
How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars — Why We Fund the Wrong Things
Evolvability: The Hidden Architecture That Shapes Evolution
Greed to Green: Is Capitalism Driving Climate Change? — A Systems Analysis
Future Shock: The Limits of Human Adaptation — When the Speed of Change Becomes the Crisis
Bully Nation — The Hidden Systems That Teach Power Through Bullying
Sociopathic Society: When Institutions Reward Antisocial Behavior — A Systems Analysis
Corporation Nation — The Hidden Systems Behind Corporate Power
The Wilding of America: When Institutions Reward Selfishness — Systems Analysis
The Disinherited Majority: Capital Questions—Piketty and Beyond — When Wealth Inherits Power
The 2020s: A Decade of Cognitive Dissonance — Why Everything Feels Like It's Changing at Once
Idiocracy: The Culture of the New Idiot — Why Modern Systems Reward Irrationality
The Globalization Paradox: Why Markets Can't Exist Without Governments
The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump — The Economics of Political Legitimacy
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 — Was the American Revolution Really About Liberty?
A People's History of the United States — The Hidden Systems Behind American Power
American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
The Founding Myth: Was America Really Founded as a Christian Nation? | Systems Analysis
The Dogma of Christ: How Institutions Absorb Human Agency — Erich Fromm
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed — Engineering Strategic Invisibility
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Psychic Programs — Intelligence Under Uncertainty
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future — When Markets Shape Power
The Triumph of Injustice: How Tax Systems Shape Economic Power
The Selfish Capitalist: Why Modern Economies May Be Producing Anxiety — A Systems Analysis
To Have or To Be?: Consumerism, Identity, and the Hidden Operating System of Society
Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion: Systems Behind Psychedelic Therapy — Healing or Catalyst?
The Ultimate Psilocybin Mushroom Bible: Science, Therapy & Institutional Inertia
Why Complex Life Doesn't Need a Designer | Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker
All Tomorrows: Evolution Has No Final Form — A Systems Analysis
Precious Objects: How the Diamond Industry Manufactures Value
Labor's Love Lost: How the Economy Built—and Unbuilt—the American Family
Blood Diamonds: How Luxury Markets Turn Violence into Profit | Greg Campbell
A Future So Bright — Who Decides What Our Future Optimizes For? | Kate O'Neill
Marriage, a History: Why Marriage Was Never Originally About Love
The Commercialization of Intimate Life | How the Market Reorganized Care | Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the U.S. Constitution — Why It Was Designed to Resist Democracy
Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today — When Political Incentives Are Engineered
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal — Competing Operating Systems of Democracy
The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism — Market Governance
Born on the Fourth of July: The Cultural Pipeline to War — Systems Analysis
Recitatif: The Identity Puzzle — How Categorization Shapes Perception
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making — How Life Reengineered the Planet
A People & A Nation: A History of the United States — The Systems Behind America
The New Cold War: Weaponized Interdependence — A Systems Analysis
Calling Bullshit: The Information Pollution System — Why Falsehood Scales
The Enigma of Reason: Why Confirmation Bias Might Be Functional
The Giving World: The Hidden Financial System Behind Global Development
How to Build a Universe — The Hidden Infrastructure of Scientific Knowledge
The Importance of Being Interested: Why Humans Resist Reality — The Certainty System
The Wake-Up Call: When Governments Lose State Capacity — A Systems Analysis
Ordinary Men — The Social System Behind Mass Killing
Obedience to Authority: The System Behind Compliance — Why Ordinary People Obey
Punishment Without Crime — When Justice Becomes a Revenue System
The Lucifer Effect: When Institutions Manufacture Behavior
The Best American Crime Reporting 2009: When Systems Produce Crime
The Logic of Collective Action — Why Shared Interests Fail to Organize
The Nine: How Political Systems Shape the Supreme Court
True Crimes and Misdemeanors: Accountability vs Information Warfare — Institutional Asymmetry
The Stuff of Thought: Language as Cognitive Infrastructure — The Architecture of Thought
The Rational Optimist — The Collective Brain and Cultural Evolution
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 — When Prevention Creates Risk
And Then I Woke Up: When Narratives Replace Reality — The Architecture of Belief
The Evolution of Everything — Why Complex Systems Build Themselves
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Trauma, Silence, and Hidden Social Systems
The Day I Die: When Medicine Has No Off-Ramp
The Evolution of Childhood — Why Childhood Exists
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis — The Hidden System Behind Opportunity
The Second Shift: Why Household Conflict Is Really About Systems
The Social Origins of Private Life — The Hidden Architecture of Family Systems
The Way We Never Were — Family Nostalgia, Memory, and Hidden Systems
Supreme Power: Court-Packing and Constitutional Crisis — Institutional Adaptation
The Anatomy of Fascism: How Democracies Enable Extremism — The System Behind the Movement
The Trial of Billy Jack: State Violence, Public Apathy, and Institutional Power
Racism in America: A Reader — The Systems That Reproduce Inequality
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: The Architecture of Self-Justification
On Juneteenth: Who Gets to Write History? — The Tyranny of the Archive
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Hidden Architecture of the Modern Food System
Planet Palm: The Hidden System Behind Cheap Consumption
The Oil and the Dollar: Petrodollar Recycling and the Financial Super Cycle
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System — One System, Two Crises
Linked: The New Science of Networks — The Hidden Architecture of Connectivity
What You Can Learn From 10,000 Ants: The Hidden Intelligence of Decentralized Systems
Swarm Intelligence: The Architecture of No Architect
The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations — How History Invents Civilizations (Audio)
Einstein’s Cosmos: The Hidden System Behind Scientific Revolutions
Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Limits of Prediction — Chaos and Forecasting
The Story of More: The Consumption Trap — Why Efficiency Isn't Saving Us
Heartificial Intelligence: Who Programs Human Values? — The Hidden AI System
Marconomics: Are Markets Driven by Psychology? — The Behavioral Economy
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap: Building Markets Before Institutions — A Systems Analysis
How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change the World?: Innovation's Hidden System
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters — The Information System of Life
The Entrepreneurial State: Who Really Pays for Innovation? — The Hidden Risk System
The Origins of Virtue: Why Cooperation Evolves — The Hidden System of Trust
The Language Instinct: Why Language Is Biological — The Hidden System of Thought