Fault Lines 12: War

Every war has two sets of heroes. Every religion has one true god. Every country has a flag worth dying for. None of that was your idea. Fault Lines explores the oldest trick in human history — how kings, priests, newspapers, governments, algorithms, and AI have always shaped what you believe, who …

Capitalism is the story every modern economy tells about itself. But is anyone actually living it? From prehistoric obsidian traders to trillion-dollar bailouts, this episode traces the real history of capitalism — the version Adam Smith theorised, the version Karl Marx feared, and the version gove…

Every civilisation that ever collapsed thought it was permanent. The Romans didn't think Rome would fall. The Byzantines were debating theology while cannons were being built outside their walls. The Soviets woke up one morning and the system just wasn't there anymore. And the Syrians who had jobs,…

Everything you use today — your phone, your food, your hospital, your heating — runs on fossil fuels. Every single bit of it. This episode makes the case that the Industrial Revolution was never really about industry. It was about extraction. Coal, oil, gas, and the minerals beneath the ground buil…