In the absence of optimism there is hope
Sue de Groot spoke to Rutger Bregman, the world’s hottest historian, whose hypotheses about human nature are playing out in the pandemic — not that he’s patting himself on the back about it
30 August 2020 - 00:00
At the World Economic Forum in Davos last year, a young Dutch historian called Rutger Bregman berated the assembled billionaires for paying lip service to inequality. ..
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