Is the West Heading for Civilisational Collapse?

The way in which the Roman Empire collapsed has been crucially misunderstood, according to this week’s guests. So what have historians got wrong, and more importantly, how might their mistakes inform our understanding of a rapidly changing global power structure?

Aaron is joined by Peter Heather, a historian of antiquity, and John Rapley, a political economist, whose new book, Why Empires Fall, examines the fall of the Rome to look for parallels in the degradation of western civilisation.