(04/07/2020) In 2050, weary beyond reckoning but not quite dead, Arnold recounts the crises of the 2020s and the revolutionary changes...

(03/31/2022) In this episode, we examine the relationship between psychological variation, social role differentiation, and power,...

(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...

(03/16/2022) If last episode described how we become trapped in a suicidally destructive feedback loop between biology and technology,...

(02/24/2022) Why is the world looking more and more like the paranoid delusions of 19th century mental patients? Why do political systems...

(02/21/2022) Arnold's father, George, comes to visit, and tells stories of hanging out with a revolutionary pachuco poet, covering...

(02/10/2022) We continue our mashup of political psychology, the biology of aggression, and left-right brain hemisphere differences, in...

(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...

(01/24/2022) As grief and terror about the ecological crisis intensifies, it seems increasingly curious that for many years a radical...

(12/27/2021) Because it couldn't possibly be more clear that existing political systems are committed to behaviors that will cause our...

(12/20/2021) In this episode, we conclude our broad sweep of human history, venturing fearlessly into the truly tangled wilderness of...

(10/30/2021) Just for fun and for absolutely no other reason whatsoever, a very high, very post-surgical Arnold relates a youthful tale...

(10/09/2021) Assuming a continuous legacy of political struggle from the earliest stages of human evolution to conflicts over power...

(08/18/2021) In this episode, we examine not how biology pervades politics, but how politics pervades biology: how the course of...

(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...

(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...

(07/16/2021) We examine the hopelessly subjective and highly contentious (one could perhaps say psychotic) process by which the...

(07/06/2021) As we emerge from quarantine and reveal to one another our many wounds, Arnold describes a recent, months-long period of...

(06/27/2021) In this episode, Arnold asks Joshua a series of truly fundamental questions to which no one has decisive answers: questions...

(04/20/2021) We continue our examination of the revolutionary period of 2032-3, relying heavily on the psychographic researcher Sarah...