Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Author: Rutger Bregman
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. Rutger Bregman, a bestselling Dutch historian, explains that it needn’t be this way.Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholl….Read More
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