Arnold Schroder3 days ago1 min#50: Varieties of Scientific Revolution pt. 1(05/08/2022) The year is 2250, and the participation of humanity in the global ecosystem is shaped by a council of scientists...
Arnold SchroderApr 171 min#49: What Is Politics? Interview with Daniel pt. 2(04/08/2022) We discuss the many determinants of hierarchy and equality, and many other aspects of social form, in the cross-cultural...
Arnold SchroderApr 81 min#48: What We Sang in the Mountains to Greet the Gentle Rain pt. 1 (preview)(04/07/2020) In 2050, weary beyond reckoning but not quite dead, Arnold recounts the crises of the 2020s and the revolutionary changes...
Arnold SchroderApr 12 min#47: What Is Left Authoritarianism?(03/31/2022) In this episode, we examine the relationship between psychological variation, social role differentiation, and power,...
Arnold SchroderApr 11 min#46: What Is Politics? Interview with Daniel pt. 1(03/23/2022) It's easy enough to use exquisitely rarefied, niche terminology to talk about politics, but do we even have a foundation of...
Arnold SchroderApr 11 min#45: Return to the Circle(03/16/2022) If last episode described how we become trapped in a suicidally destructive feedback loop between biology and technology,...
Arnold SchroderFeb 251 min#44: Philosophy or Schizophrenia?(02/24/2022) Why is the world looking more and more like the paranoid delusions of 19th century mental patients? Why do political systems...
Arnold SchroderFeb 251 min#43: Prison and Other Stories(02/21/2022) Arnold's father, George, comes to visit, and tells stories of hanging out with a revolutionary pachuco poet, covering...
Arnold SchroderFeb 102 min#42: Life Is Holy War pt. 2: Asymmetries of Aggression(02/10/2022) We continue our mashup of political psychology, the biology of aggression, and left-right brain hemisphere differences, in...
Arnold SchroderFeb 41 min#41: Life Is Holy War pt. 1: Two Stories about a Mountain(01/31/2022) In this, the most wild journey we have undertaken thus far, we examine the notion that reality consists of a tension between...
Arnold SchroderJan 261 min#40: The Life and Death of Radical Environmentalism(01/24/2022) As grief and terror about the ecological crisis intensifies, it seems increasingly curious that for many years a radical...
Arnold SchroderDec 29, 20212 min#39: Destroying the World Destroyers(12/27/2021) Because it couldn't possibly be more clear that existing political systems are committed to behaviors that will cause our...
Arnold SchroderDec 20, 20213 min#38: Ethnogenesis pt. 4: Becoming a People in Terra Incognita(12/20/2021) In this episode, we conclude our broad sweep of human history, venturing fearlessly into the truly tangled wilderness of...
Arnold SchroderDec 20, 20211 min#37: Times I Got Stuck in Albuquerque(10/30/2021) Just for fun and for absolutely no other reason whatsoever, a very high, very post-surgical Arnold relates a youthful tale...
Arnold SchroderNov 11, 20213 min#36: Ethnogenesis pt. 3: Sacrificial Child Gods and Social Complexity(10/09/2021) Assuming a continuous legacy of political struggle from the earliest stages of human evolution to conflicts over power...
Arnold SchroderAug 19, 20212 min#35: Ethnogenesis pt. 2: Evolutionary Anarchism(08/18/2021) In this episode, we examine not how biology pervades politics, but how politics pervades biology: how the course of...
Arnold SchroderAug 8, 20211 min#34: Ethnogenesis pt. 1: Hill Tribes Are Like Street Kids(08/07/2021) When we speak of revolution, aren't we are ultimately speaking of the creation of a different culture? And if so, how...
Arnold SchroderAug 8, 20211 min#33: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 3: Despair(07/30/2021) But seriously: is there any point to doing anything at all? Or is the world truly just going to end so soon we really might...
Arnold SchroderJul 18, 20211 min#32: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 2: Madness(07/16/2021) We examine the hopelessly subjective and highly contentious (one could perhaps say psychotic) process by which the...
Arnold SchroderJul 8, 20212 min#31: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 1: Addiction(07/06/2021) As we emerge from quarantine and reveal to one another our many wounds, Arnold describes a recent, months-long period of...