Crisis in Perception

Welcome to Crisis in Perception. In this episode, we explore Winners Take All — Anand Giridharadas’s searing critique of how today’s elites claim to “change the world” while protecting the systems that benefit them most. This Deep Dive investigates the world of MarketWorld, the network of wealthy entrepreneurs, philanthropists, think-tank leaders, and corporate influencers who champion “win-win so...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception. In this episode, we explore The New Jim Crow — uncovering the history, psychology, and power structures shaping America’s system of mass incarceration. This Deep Dive synthesizes insights from sociology, constitutional law, criminal justice, and political history to reveal how mass incarceration functions as a racial caste system. Drawing from Michelle Alexander’s...

Why the U.S. Wasn’t Founded as a Christian Nation — and Why That Myth Persists Was the United States founded as a Christian nation? And if not, why does that belief persist — and who benefits from it? In this Crisis in Perception Deep Dive, I examine the historical record, the legal framework of the Constitution, and the modern political movement behind Christian nationalism. Drawing primarily on...

In this Deep Dive, we explore why otherwise intelligent people come to believe false, unsupported, or irrational ideas—and why those beliefs are so difficult to dislodge. Drawing from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World and Michael Shermer’s Why People Believe Weird Things , this episode examines the psychological, cultural, and systemic forces that make humans vulnerable to pseudoscience, supers...