All episodes
Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s — The Celebrity Machine
Movie Stars of the 1950s: The Business of Authenticity — Hollywood's Hidden System
What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s — Hollywood’s Image Machine
The City in American Cinema: How Movies Reprice Urban Life
American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations — Hollywood as Crisis Management
The Fourth of July and the Founding of America — How Nations Create Founding Myths
The Silence of the Lambs: Profiling, Power, and Institutional Blindness
Alice in Wonderland in Film and Popular Culture: Wonderland as Cultural Mirror
The Lord of the Rings in Contemporary Culture: The Anti-Machine Machine
American Cinema of the 1960s: How Hollywood Sold Rebellion
Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s — Stardom as Cultural Containment
Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make — The Illusion of End-of-Life Choice
Shining in Shadows: The Economics of Authenticity — Celebrity as a System
Acting for America: The Anti-Star Commodity — How Hollywood Monetized Rebellion
Food Across Borders: The Hidden Systems Behind Local Food
There's a War Going On But No One Can See It: The Hidden Infrastructure of Cyberwar
Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective — Broken Trust Systems
Conspiracy Theories: The Attention Economy of Belief — Hidden Incentive Systems
Religion Refuted: Faith, Cognition, and the Architecture of Belief
The Wealth Hoarders: The Hidden Industry Protecting Billionaire Wealth
The Unique Story of the James Webb Space Telescope — Seeing Time Through Risk
NASA’s Artemis Moon Exploration Mission: Lunar Infrastructure and the New Space System
Dark History of the Catholic Church: Faith, Power, and Institutional Survival
Inventing the Future: Who Decides Which Futures Are Possible?
We Will Not Cancel Us: When Accountability Becomes Punishment — Systems Analysis
Code Girls: The Hidden Labor System Behind World War II Codebreaking
Stolen Focus: The Attention Economy — Why Distraction Is Profitable
SCAM!: The Global Vulnerability Market — How Fraud Becomes an Industry
Food Adulteration and Food Fraud: The Hidden Economics of Trust in Food Systems
Toxic Exposure: Roundup, Regulatory Capture, and Manufactured Scientific Trust
The Garden Jungle: How Perfect Lawns Hide Broken Ecological Systems
The Irish Potato Famine: When Food Existed but Access Failed — A Systems Analysis
Debunking 9/11 Myths: The Anomaly Trap and Systemic Failure
Children of Hoarders: Why Trying to Help Can Reinforce the System
Shut It Down: The Edge of Chaos — How Systems Change Under Pressure
We the Elites: Was Government Gridlock Built Into the Constitution?
The Feminist Memoir Project: Making Invisible Systems Visible — Women's Liberation
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century — Economic Democracy and Power
Thinking in Systems and Mental Models: Why We Misdiagnose Reality — Hidden Feedback Loops
Early Modern Europe — How Information Broke a Thousand-Year Monopoly
Salt Wars: Manufactured Doubt and the Politics of Public Health
Trail of Tears: Law, Land, and the Machinery of Removal
Institutions Unbound: Why Systems Resist Change — The Human Rights Paradox
Relinquished: Adoption, Inequality, and the Market for Infants
Human Rights Of, By, and For the People: Constitutional Design and Human Rights
The Trump Indictments: Legal Accountability as Institutional Stress Test
Fake News, Witch Hunts & Conspiracy Theories: The Infodemic System
Blood and Faith: When White Nationalism Rejected Christianity
The Color of Fascism: The Frustrated Elite — Systems of Exclusion and Power
God and the Fascists: The Vatican, Power, and Authoritarian Alignment
God, No!: Certainty, Illusion, and the Systems Behind Belief
Einstein's Unfinished Dream: The Theory of Everything — When Verification Breaks Down
Women and the Arts of Knowledge: Who Controls Divine Knowledge? — Information Power
God: An Anatomy — The Body Theology Tried to Erase
When Gods Were Men: The Hidden System Rewriting God — Interpretation vs Text
Scientific American: The Human Microbiome — The Ecosystem Inside Us
To Infinity and Beyond: Why the Universe Defies Human Intuition
Sacred Cows: Protected Beliefs — and the Systems That Keep Them Alive
Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society — Why Religion Declines
Peak Mind: The Attention Economy vs Human Cognition — Systems Analysis
Denying the Holocaust: How Disinformation Exploits Truth Systems
Hitler’s War: Bureaucratic Chaos Inside the Third Reich — Systems Analysis
The Better Half: The Hidden Flaw Inside Modern Medicine — Genetic Resilience
Homewreckers: How Wall Street Financialized the American Home
Denying Evolution: Why Facts Alone Don’t Change Minds — Systems Analysis
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters — The Architecture of Denial
A Skeptics’ Skeptic: When Science Becomes Ideology — The Scientism Trap
The Rocks Don’t Lie: Flood Myths, Deep Time, and Systems of Truth
Other Minds: Why Evolution Built Consciousness More Than Once
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?: Testing Bias and Animal Minds
Chimpanzee Politics: The Hidden System Behind Power — Frans de Waal
The Story of Earth: Life, Rocks, and Planetary Coevolution
Wonderful Life: Evolution’s Survival Lottery — Systems of Contingency
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Science, Contingency, and the Myth of Progress
Network Propaganda: Media Systems and the Collapse of Shared Reality
Disaster Nationalism: Why Collapse Creates Enemies — Systems of Radicalization
Lords of the Harvest: Seeds, Patents, and Agricultural Control
First Fruit: The GMO Tomato — Science, Markets, and Trust
Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property and the Architecture of Monopoly
Manufacturing Discontent: Corporate Power and the Individualism Trap
The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: Efficiency vs Control — The Hidden System
Butler to the World: Britain’s Market for Secrecy — Offshore Power
Moneyland: How Borderless Wealth Escapes Bordered Law
The Science of Pets: Co-Evolution, Anthropomorphism, and Animal Behavior
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Why the Silence May Be a System
Fragile Brain: Neurodegeneration and the Collapse of Brain Maintenance Systems
The Future of Food: Eating Oil, Wasting Calories — The Hidden Food System
The Science of Cancer: The Corrupted Ecosystem Inside the Body
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: Space as Prestige Economy
Secrets of Mental Math: Cognitive Systems Behind Fast Calculation
The Great Adaptation: Climate Crisis as Market Opportunity — The Capitalocene
Late Victorian Holocausts: Famine, Empire, and the Market — A Systems Analysis
The Case for Climate Capitalism: Reprogramming the Market — Climate Incentives
Disposable People: The Global Economy of Modern Slavery — Systems of Disposability
Down the Drain: Transactional Survival — The Economics of Trauma
The Great Derangement: Climate Collapse and the Crisis of Imagination
Undoing the Demos: How Market Logic Rewrites Democracy
The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform, Crisis, and Systemic Stability
Land of Idols: Political Myth and Institutional Power — Systems of Passivity
History as Mystery: Who Controls Historical Memory? — Systems of Information Power