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HARDtalk: Rutger Bregman: Are humans essentially good?

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05/06/2020 GMT

Rutger Bregman: Are humans essentially good?

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Do we humans massively underestimate our capacity to change things for the better?

HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to writer and historian Rutger Bregman, author of the new book ‘Humankind: A Hopeful History’

In times of crisis we learn plenty about who we really are – and so it is that the global coronavirus pandemic is revealing truths about humankind – and how we balance self and collective interest. Stephen Sackur speaks to writer and historian Rutger Bregman whose book Humankind: A Hopeful History, is making waves around the world. Do we humans massively underestimate our capacity to change things for the better?

(Photo: Rutger Bregman)

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