Crisis in Perception

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Natalie Wexler

This episode explores The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler as a systems-level analysis of how curriculum design, testing pressure, and assumptions about reading influence learning, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated classroom failures, the episode shows why skills-based reading instruction persists — and how it connects to larger systems of inequality, accountability, cultural capital, and democratic participation.

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Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Priten Shah

This episode explores AI and the Future of Education by Priten Shah as a systems-level analysis of how generative AI influences teaching, learning, assessment, equity, and institutional adaptation.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than classroom panic, the episode shows why AI persists — and how it connects to larger systems of labor, technology, inequality, privacy, and human judgment.

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Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Peter Hallward

This episode explores Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward as a systems-level analysis of how foreign intervention, elite containment, financial dependency, media framing, and NGO power influenced behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes in Haiti.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Ibram X. Kendi

This episode explores How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi as a systems-level analysis of how racial policy, institutional power, and ideological justification influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

This episode explores They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers as a systems-level analysis of how slavery, property law, gender, and domestic power influenced behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Jonathan M. Katz

This episode explores The Big Truck That Went By by Jonathan M. Katz as a systems-level analysis of how international aid, donor politics, media narratives, and institutional self-protection influenced Haiti’s recovery after the 2010 earthquake.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Nathan J. Robinson

This episode explores Superpredator: Bill Clinton’s Use and Abuse of Black America by Nathan J. Robinson as a systems-level analysis of how electoral triangulation, racialized fear, and punitive policy design influenced behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Daniel Immerwahr

This episode explores How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr as a systems-level analysis of how cartography, territorial invisibility, military logistics, technical standards, and national identity influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, military, technological, and cultural structures.

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Author: Martha S. Jones

This episode explores Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by Martha S. Jones as a systems-level analysis of how local legal practice, racial exclusion, and procedural participation influenced citizenship, belonging, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persisted — and how they connected to larger economic, political, legal, and constitutional structures.

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Author: Film written and directed by Adam McKay

This episode explores Don’t Look Up as a systems-level analysis of how media systems, political incentives, and corporate power shape belief and behavior.

Drawing from Don’t Look Up: A Metaphor for Western Civilization and foundational works on media and perception, the episode shows how structural incentives can override clear evidence — producing delay, fragmentation, and coordinated failure.

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This episode discusses key plot outcomes from the referenced fictional work in order to analyze its underlying social, economic, and systemic themes.

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