
Hope Is Not Enough
In his latest book ‘Humankind,’ Rutger Bregman launches a 300-page defence of human nature against the Hobbesians – but without a political perspective, his hope begins to feel like self-help.
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Anton Jäger is is a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, working on the history of populism in the United States. Together with Daniel Zamora, he is currently working on an intellectual history of basic income.
In his latest book ‘Humankind,’ Rutger Bregman launches a 300-page defence of human nature against the Hobbesians – but without a political perspective, his hope begins to feel like self-help.
Coronavirus has exposed the fragility of global capitalism and left governments facing a choice – the survival of the market or the survival of humanity.