FL#16. Time

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 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 …

You enjoy your weekend. You have rights at work. Your kids go to school instead of a factory floor. None of that was inevitable. All of it was fought for. And the intellectual ammunition behind almost every one of those fights traces back to one difficult, brilliant, frequently broke German philoso…

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…