(04/14/2026) Thomas Zeitzoff's No Option but Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis explores the tumultuous past and uncertain present of movements for a habitable Earth. In this interview, we explore the data he gathered, showing trends in the intensity and frequency of different kinds of ecological action. And we explore the myriad factors his more than 100 interviewees cited as shaping the movement's trajectory, from the distinct phases of the

(04/27/2026) We're not exactly asking what the true nature of the UFO phenomenon is. It's more like we're asking how people form the beliefs they do (which turns out to be a pretty good way to structure an inquiry into the true nature of something). What does being exposed to lots of stories about encounters with UFOs and their occupants, from people who are clearly emotionally impacted by those encounters, do to someone? What if they tell stories that are similar enough to c

(02/26/2026) In this episode, you will find the only valid interpretation of the UFO phenomenon in the world. It involves: how psychological experiments conducted by humans on other species are structurally similar to what we call paranormal; how propaganda is best understood as the selective curation of truth to create false impressions; how some spooks got the guy from Blink-182 to hype the kids on secret military programs; how almost every definitive story about the nature

(01/21/2026) In this episode, we examine a simplified scenario—that of a total social revolution without a single shot fired—to illustrate real dynamics at work in our complex world. Across human and other animal societies, power is often maintained not with outright aggression, but with threat display. Crucially, some kinds of threats are only functional when they remain implicit, or are communicated clandestinely. In other words, there are times when surrendering or fightin

(01/12/2026) We introduce the new Fight Like An Animal-adjacent project Defending the World Tree: A Journal of Animist Awakening , from Severed Branches Press, and describe the ceremony we are trying to spread. Using our Jan. 18 Day of the Forest Defender event as an example, we discuss ways to transmute grief and trauma into collective agency. Then we complete our examination of the structure and nature of revival movements, and their fundamental role in shaping societies th

(10/05/2026) All social change is ultimately biological change. We present a framework, called an alliance of phenotypes, for thinking concretely about societies in this way. It involves a ten-item trait inventory called RAMBO-BAMBI, which is intended to bring relevant variables out of the hazy periphery of consciousness and into explicit focus. In other words, it is a way of telling more complex stories about the world than we frequently do. We use two events, which occurred

(09/27/2025) What would a resource-minimum, viable human ecology—viable in the sense that we are fed, warm, and dry—look like? What proportion of the current system is truly useless economic activity, and what proportion is useless economic activity entangled with legitimate human need? Environmental policy documents don't answer these questions, but they do provide information that helps us to craft a vision. Utilizing Oregon's consumption-based greenhouse gas inventory—whic

(08/20/2025) Those of us who understand the world cannot exercise power, while those who exercise power cannot understand the world. We...

(08/10/2025) We celebrate the following three things: One, the animist revival currently sweeping the land. Two, a completed book with a...

(05/21/2025) Sometimes, we just have to stop fighting and ask if it's really worth it. Or wait: I guess we won't know unless we fight. In...

(04/20/2025) On four consecutive Sundays, beginning April 27, Arnold will teach some of the fundamentals of revolutionary biology....

(03/24/2025) This episode returns to the question of how to escape the freeze response so many of us are having to the world's many...

(02/28/2025) Is it a coincidence that the authoritarian system currently being imposed is fundamentally an outgrowth of religion? And...

(01/03/2025) The fog of collective resignation we are stumbling through has changed the stories we tell. As we perceive, with...

(11/26/2024) Now that the first book deriving from this podcast is complete, it feels less ridiculous to say it. The purpose of this...

(11/20/2024) Arnold talks with David of Feun Foo Permaculture and Rewiliding and the An Animist's Ramblings . An anarcho-primitivist,...

(11/19/2024) Looking back from 2050, this episode examines a core communications strategy revolutionary movements began to employ in the...

(09/17/2024) A dominance hierarchy is a social structure where some people are allowed to hit you, and you're not allowed to hit back. It...

(08/01/2024) Dr. Shane Simonsen returns to talk about his new book Taming the Apocalypse , a vision of humanity's potential as “the...

(05/24/2024) Is it time to give up? Was it already time to give up in 2020, or 2012, or perhaps even 1999? We usually justify our answers...