A World to Win: Survival of the Friendliest w/ Rutger Bregman
On this week’s show Grace Blakeley speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History. In January of last year, Bregman shot to international fame when video of him excoriating the tax-avoiding corpo...
November 12, 2020
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November 12, 2020
A World to Win: Survival of the Friendliest w/ Rutger Bregman
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A World to Win: Survival of the Friendliest w/ Rutger Bregman
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<p>On this week’s show Grace Blakeley speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/utopia-for-realists/rutger-bregman/9781408893210" rel="nofollow">Utopia for Realists</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=bregman+humankind&oq=bregman+humankind&aqs=chrome..69i57j46j0l2j0i22i30l4.3049j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow">Humankind: A Hopeful History</a>.</p>
<p>In January of last year, Bregman shot to international fame when video of him excoriating <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ijiLqfXP0" rel="nofollow">the tax-avoiding corporate elite</a> at Davos went viral – and in the latest A World to Win he discusses a range of topics from human nature to capitalism and the 24-hour news cycle.</p>
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