When New York City elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor, conservatives warned of creeping socialism. This episode looks beyond the headlines to ask a deeper question: why do capitalist systems always turn to socialist policies to survive? From FDR’s New Deal to modern bailouts and public infrastructure, history shows that when markets falter, collective investment holds society together. Mamdani’s victory underscores a simple truth: capitalism relies on socialism to avoid collapse.

This episode explores how truth loses ground when appearance becomes the measure of power. From the Renaissance to the age of Fox News, it traces how performance, fear, and repetition reshape public belief. It follows the evolution of persuasion—and the way our minds impose coherence on chaos, binding whole societies to the theater of their own illusions.

This episode explores how belief takes shape, why certainty often survives even when the evidence doesn’t, and what happens when truth becomes more about preference than proof. We look at how societies built guardrails—science, journalism, education—to help us test what’s real, and why those systems are now under attack. When the institutions that keep us grounded are defunded, censored, or discredited, we’re left more vulnerable to stories that feel good but mislead. The result isn’t just confusion or disagreement—it’s an environment where loyalty can matter more than truth, and where doubt itself becomes a political tool.

In this episode, we examine the irony and hypocrisy surrounding the death of Charlie Kirk. We look at Utah’s politics, where Republican lawmakers have blocked gun reforms for decades. We revisit Kirk’s own rhetoric, including his claim that “some deaths are necessary” to preserve the Second Amendment. We explore the transformation of flawed figures into martyrs, and how outrage is manufactured and weaponized.

In this first episode, we explore the foundations of truth through logic—what counts as a sound argument, how fallacies distort debate, and why the rules of reasoning matter more than ever in today’s politics and media. From ancient philosophers to modern news cycles, we trace how logic can both illuminate and obscure reality, and why so many public conversations are built on tricks rather than tests of truth.