Rutger Bregman's latest book "makes profound change look easy," said Isabel Berwick in Financial Times. The Dutch author of the best-seller Humankind: A Hopeful History has set his sights on today ...

Yet the current bewildered shuttle diplomacy by the Americans to placate Russia is based on a serious misunderstanding of the Russian mindset. Rutger Bregman’s Humankind: A Hopeful History was an ...

As Rutger Bregman points out in “Humankind: A Hopeful History,” many of the stories we consume in our daily news streams emphasize the worst of human nature.

Bregman, 37, has recently embarked on something of a career shift. The success of previous books Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History – and a few punchy viral moments (look up ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Page 11 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives.

His books, Utopia for Realists (2014) and Humankind: A Hopeful Mystery (2019), have been translated into dozens of languages and have made it to The New York Times bestsellers’ list.

Historian Rutger Bregman, in his book Humankind: A Hopeful History, makes this observation about rich and powerful people who claim to have a monopoly on the allegedly commonsense notion that ...

The result of both parties drift to the far extremes of their respective political universes has left a void for the average party member. If the two political parties want to prevent a continued ...

Despite the widespread collapse across the country, traffic accidents were rare. In some areas, crime rates even dropped—by as much as 70%. [1] That Monday could easily have been a chapter in Rutger ...