Rutger Bregman

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Michael Rosen |Katherine Rundell |Olivia Laing |Jonathan Coe |Ali Smith |Rutger Bregman | +6 more

Zadie SmithFor me summer reading is about immersion. Three novels fully absorbed me recently. Flesh by David Szalay is a very smart and stylish novel about the 1%, filtered through the life of a Hungarian bodyguard/driver in their midst. Cécé by Emmelie Prophète (out 23 September) vividly depicts the slums of contemporary Haiti via a very online young sex worker who lives her best life on Facebook.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Rutger Bregman

Altruism is failing humanity: can “moral ambition” save the day – and us? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? – The Summer Day by Mary OliverI have eagerly followed Dutch historian Rutger Bregman’s career online ever since I saw a video clip on twitter of him speaking truth to power at the Davos CEO Greedfest Conference.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Rutger Bregman |Alex Atack |Tom Glasser |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin

“Moral ambition is the desire to stand on the right side of history before it is fashionable, to basically devote your career, your life, to some of the most pressing issues that we face as a species.”Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Moral Ambition, believes that too many of us are in what he calls “bullshit jobs”. “What I see is an enormous waste of talent,” he tells Hannah Moore.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Rutger Bregman

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the May 3 edition of Good Weekend.See all 14 stories. What will future generations see as our gravest offence? What practice of ours will most appal them? It’s not hard to come up with ideas: is it justifiable to spend billions on luxury items, when 45 million children under five worldwide are suffering from acute malnutrition?

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Rutger Bregman

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