(03/06/2023) Nature vs. nurture thinking simply makes no sense: an entity can only respond to its environment via evolved capacities....

(01/18/2023) A uniquely stand-alone episode of the Fight Like An Animal 2050 fictional series usually reserved for Patreon, here we...

(01/01/2022) Why are states incapable of navigating the ecological crisis? We progress to the third of our six explanatory levels for...

(12/23/2022) We examine a scientific case for revolution: that modern societies are forms of dominance hierarchy that grant power to...

(12/05/2022) This episode of Fight Like An Animal 2050 tells the story of the initial meetings, in 2025, at which a strategy was...

(11/17/2022) Why is it that apocalyptic cults have been such a common aspect of the human experience, but are largely absent from our...

(06/27/2022) In celebration of the anniversary of the killing of Custer, to prepare for revolutionary efforts against the theocratic...

(06/02/2022) In order for scientists to start a revolution, the case for revolution must emerge from the scientific process. But that...

(05/22/2022) The story of the epochal changes of the 2020s, told in 2050, continues. This episode tells the story of west coast forests...

(05/08/2022) The year is 2250, and the participation of humanity in the global ecosystem is shaped by a council of scientists...

Abstract art and oppression In his short story “The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim”, Borges describes a protagonist who participates in a...

(04/08/2022) We discuss the many determinants of hierarchy and equality, and many other aspects of social form, in the cross-cultural...

(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,...

This is chapter one of my forthcoming book, and corresponds roughly to podcast episodes 25, "The World Is a Lot Like the Internet", and...

(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...