It started with a seating arrangement. In the summer of 1789, a group of men in a Parisian assembly hall sorted themselves by how radical they wanted their revolution to be — and accidentally invented the political map the entire world still uses today. Left. Right. Two and a half centuries later, we're still sitting in the same seats. This episode traces how a framework born from France's crisis got exported through empire, industrialisation, and the Cold War — until it started breaking under the weight of a world it was never designed to explain.

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