All episodes
The Humanure Handbook: The Invention of Waste — A Broken Nutrient Cycle
Poop Culture: The Hidden System Behind the Flush Toilet — Infrastructure and Denial
Seawater Batteries: The Planetary Cathode — Rethinking Energy Storage
Policing the Planet — Broken Windows, Urban Governance, and State Power
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: The Punishment System — Safety, Power, and Accountability
Government in the Future — Democracy Beyond Elections and Economic Power
An Epidemic of Absence: The Immune Ecosystem — The Cost of Sterile Modernity
Missing Microbes: The Ecology Inside Us — How Modern Medicine Alters Human Biology
Scientific American on Allergies & Asthma: The Hidden Ecology of Immunity
Scientific American: The Hidden System Behind Misinformation — Digital Truth
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human — The Thermodynamics of Human Evolution
Escape from Overshoot: The Growth Imperative — Why Green Growth May Fail
Overshoot: Climate Breakdown and the Logic of Fossil Capital
Does It Matter: When Symbols Replace Reality — The Abstraction Trap
A Return to Common Sense: Democracy's Hidden Architecture — Systems of Power
The Man in the High Castle: Who Decides What Is Real? — Systems of Reality
Minority Report: When Systems Stop Serving Humans — Institutional Homeostasis
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Architecture of Hypocrisy — Reputation Systems and Repression
Spotify Title I, Robot: When Ethical Rules Become Systems of Control — AI and Optimization
Outside Looking In: George Carlin and the Politics of Language — Systems of Control
Human Rights and Macroeconomics: The System Behind Poverty Reduction
What Do I Do When People I Know Are Racist?: The Family Belief System — Cultural Transmission and Social Learning
Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side — The Hidden System Behind Fairness
The Death of Expertise: When Information Undermines Knowledge — Cognitive Systems
The Ocean of Life: Shifting Baselines — Ecological Blindness and Ocean Decline
Cruise Ship Blues: The Hidden System Behind Floating Luxury — Regulatory Arbitrage
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism: Crisis as the Engine
The Case Against Miracles: Why Extraordinary Claims Persist — Systems of Belief
The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: Media Blind Spots — When Information Hides Reality
We Can't Talk about That at Work!: The System Behind Workplace Silence
The Ode Less Travelled: Why Constraints Create Creativity — The Freedom Paradox
Never Split the Difference: Negotiation as Emotional Architecture
The Myth of Normal: When Society Becomes the Pathogen — Systems Analysis
Methods of Molecular Quantum Mechanics: Reality as Approximation
Black Fatigue: The Hidden Cost of Institutional Racism — Systems Under Stress
The Ministry for the Future: Climate Crisis and the Price of Survival
2312: The Fragility of Post-Scarcity Civilization — Systems Beyond Earth
The Sorrows of Empire: The Base System Behind American Power
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The Hidden Accounting System of War
Making the Corps: How Institutions Rebuild Identity — The Marine Corps System
Gravity’s Kiss — How Science Decides What Is True
The Assassins' Gate: When Ideology Replaced Reality — The Iraq Occupation
The Unwinding: When Institutions Collapse — The Rise of Organized Money
Fiasco: When Winning Battles Meant Losing the War — Institutional Failure
An American Dreamer: The Collapse of Shared Reality — Information and Trauma
The Good Soldiers: The Bureaucracy of War — Trauma Behind the Surge
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan — The Architecture of Occupation
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future — When Control Becomes the System
The Heat Will Kill You First: Civilization's Temperature Trap — Thermodynamic Limits
The Water Will Come: The Financial System Built on Drowning Coastlines
Over the Seawall: When Safety Infrastructure Creates Risk — The Infrastructure Trap
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle: Why the Universe Had to Be Observable
The Chaos Machine: Social Media’s Engagement Engine — Algorithmic Power
Trumpism and the Future of the Republican Party: The Incentives of Realignment
Domestic Terrorism: Who Decides What Counts as Terror? — Systems of Legitimacy
The Reckoning: When Finance Defeated Manufacturing — Detroit's Hidden Crisis
The Things They Carried: The Weight of Shame — Hidden Systems of War
The Corporation: Profit Above All Else — The Legal DNA of Corporate Power
Viral Justice: The Biological Cost of Invisible Systems — Hidden Extraction
Captivating Technology — The New Jim Code and the Architecture of Algorithmic Control
Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence: Smart Borders, Invisible Control
Privilege in America: The Invisible Baseline of Power
Midnight in the American Empire: Corporate Personhood and Democratic Erosion
The Internationalists: Foreign Policy After Globalization — The Domestic Power System
Worked Over: How Time Became a System of Labor Control
Gods of Metal: Nuclear Security and the Illusion of Protection
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: When Progress Outran Safety
The Jungle: Clean Meat, Broken Workers — The System Sinclair Exposed
Pathologies of Power: When Survival Becomes a Systems Problem
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Cheap Food and Hidden Structural Violence
The American Way of Eating: Food, Labor, and the Hidden Cost of Access
The Making of a Dream — The Hidden System Behind Immigration Reform
Broke in America — Poverty, Scarcity, and Institutional Design
How to Keep From Losing Your Mind — Cognitive Sovereignty in the Attention Economy
Not Many Dead — When the News Runs Out of News
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Why State Shapes Story — The Hidden Nervous System
How We Can Win — The Hidden Systems Behind America’s Wealth Gap
Not All Dead White Men: How Extremists Weaponize the Classical Past
Big Ideas for Curious Minds — The Hidden Systems Behind Human Behavior
The School of Life — Emotional Education and the Architecture of Modern Life
Boston Review: The Density Tax — How Electoral Geography Shapes Power
Abundance: Why America Forgot How to Build — The Scarcity System
Let Them Eat Tweets: The Conservative Dilemma — Wealth, Outrage, and Power
American Amnesia: The Hidden System Behind Prosperity — State Capacity and Markets
Divided: The Rules Behind Inequality — How Wealth Becomes Power
Tiny Blunders / Big Disasters: The Hidden Fragility of Complex Systems
Life by Algorithms: When Automation Replaces Judgment — Algorithmic Bureaucracy
Hurricane Katrina: When Flood Control Systems Fail — Infrastructure vs Nature
Left Behind: The Public Education Crisis in the United States — Schooling as Control
Mental Penguins: The Attention Economy and the Collapse of Deep Reading
Pandemics: Disease, Power, and Systemic Vulnerability — Hidden Structures
Washed Away: When Infrastructure Turned Floods Into Disasters — Systems Analysis
This Land is Their Land: When Growth Stops Benefiting Workers — Structural Inequality
Fear of Falling: The Professional Class and the Anxiety of Status — A Systems View
The Age of Inequality: The Hidden Architecture of Wealth Extraction
Goodfellas: Crime, Capitalism, and the Business Model of Betrayal
The Director Should’ve Shot You: Hollywood's Hidden IP System — Alan Dean Foster
The Kill Bill Diary: Hollywood's Identity Machine — Cultural Myth Production
Representing: The Business of Black Representation — Media, Markets, and Power
Flickers of Desire: The Birth of Celebrity — Identity as a Commercial System