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May 2020

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    Rutger Bregman: 'classic household set-up' may allow abuse to go unchecked

    Historian responds to increase in domestic violence in lockdown during online Hay festival talk
  • Bomb damage during the blitz, 1943.<br>UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 25: Photograph of residents inspecting bomb damage to houses in London during the blitz. Battersea power station can be seen in the background. (Photo by The Royal Photographic Society Collection/National Science and Media Museum/SSPL/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman review – a tribute to our better nature

    The Dutch historian’s overview of debate around humanity’s core instincts has blind spots, but its optimism is invigorating
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    Rutger Bregman: the Dutch historian who rocked Davos and unearthed the real Lord of the Flies

    The historian offers a hopeful view of human nature in his latest book, Humankind. It couldn’t have come at a better time

April 2019

  • The historian Rutger Bregman in Davos

    Today in Focus
    Going viral: Fox News, Davos and radical economics

    Rutger Bregman became a social media sensation after his onstage tirade at the gathered elite in Davos this year captured the imaginations of millions who viewed the speech online. But can his utopian ideas be translated into realistic policy changes? Plus: J Oliver Conroy on David Buckel, a year on from the climate protester’s death in New York

February 2019

  • The interview began cordially, but became tense.

    Historian who confronted Davos billionaires leaks Tucker Carlson rant

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    'This is about saving capitalism': the Dutch historian who savaged Davos elite

March 2017

  • Rutger Bregman photographed for the Observer New Review in Utrecht

    Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman – review

    The Dutch historian’s blueprint for a liberal paradise is challenging in places but pure fantasy elsewhere

February 2017

  • Man resting in hammock

    Book of the day
    Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman review – visionary ideas for a dark time

    An optimistic book argues with gusto for universal basic income and other policies but lacks a broad or deep perspective

November 2016

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    Best books of 2016
    Best books of 2016 – part two

    Paula Hawkins reflects on guilt, Jackie Kay seeks hope post-Brexit, and David Nicholls is lured into the lonely city … writers pick their best books of 2016

June 2016

  • A giant poster installed in a square in Geneva

    Solutions and innovations
    State handouts for all? Europe set to pilot universal basic incomes

    Switzerland is poised to hold a referendum on introducing the concept, and Finnish and Dutch pilots are set for 2017
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