{"id":3507690,"date":"2025-01-22T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?page_id=3507690"},"modified":"2025-01-22T22:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:53:56","slug":"hno-episodes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/human-nature-odyssey-podcast\/hno-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Nature Odyssey Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Human Nature Odyssey: Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death, and Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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New York Times bestselling author Christopher Ryan joins the odyssey to discuss human nature. What\u2019s universal, what\u2019s cultural, and what\u2019s personal? Can we really change the culture we live in? And are some societies better suited to human well-being than others?<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

August 28, 2025<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The King Is Dead, Now What?: The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Join us for a live online conversation inspired by the Human Nature Odyssey podcast, tracing the long arc of the global battle between monarchy and revolution, authoritarianism and democracy, hierarchy and equality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 14. The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 3)<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Several decades after the Cold War, Russia and the U.S. found themselves on eerily parallel oligarchic paths. In this episode, we trace how the world drifted from dreams of liberation to authoritarian control\u2014and how a new generation began planting the seeds of liberty and equality once again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 13. The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 2)<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

We continue that epic struggle across centuries and continents\u2014from the upheavals of the Russian Revolution, to the rise of fascism, the global crucible of World War II, the tense Cold War standoff, the youth protests of 1968, and the ongoing battle for power, equality, and freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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To King or Not to King\u2026 Are We Seriously Asking this Question?<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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After the more than two centuries since the American and French Revolutions, the kings are back — or at least, trying to be. But we don\u2019t have to be stuck in this strange cycle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

June 13, 2025<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 12. The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 1)<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

Across the world, politics is often framed as left vs. right. But where did that divide begin? This episode traces the roots back to the French Revolution and the centuries-long struggle over liberty, power, and the future of democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 11. Capitalism & Monopoly: Why The Best Board Games Make The Worst Reality<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein\u2019s World-Systems Analysis is our instruction manual to colonization and exploitation. We explore how dominant countries rise and fall, the dance between capitalism and the state, and the unexpected truth about what real power looks like. <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 10. Against Leviathan: An Anarchist Fairytale of the Origin of Civilization<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

Gather around the campfire for a ghost story about the most destructive monster in history: civilization. Through the book \u201cAgainst His-Story, Against Leviathan,\u201d we\u2019ll explore how authoritarianism first took root in the world’s earliest cities\u2014and how those ancient systems still shape modernity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 9. Out of Society and Into the Wild: The Legend of Christopher McCandless<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

In the spring of 1992, twenty-four-year-old Christopher McCandless left society behind, hitchhiking 3,000 miles into the Alaskan wilderness. We\u2019ll explore McCandless\u2019s legacy, the conflict between self and society, community and solitude, and the concept of \u201cwilderness.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 8. A Conversation with Rennie MacKay Quinn (wife of author Daniel Quinn)<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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In this very special episode, author Daniel Quinn\u2019s wife Rennie Mackay Quinn joins us for her first ever interview: sharing untold stories, new insights, and reflections on her life and journey with her beloved late husband Daniel Quinn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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