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Humankind: A Hopeful History (Robert Wright & Rutger Bregman)

Humankind: A Hopeful History (Robert Wright & Rutger Bregman)

FromThe Wright Show


Humankind: A Hopeful History (Robert Wright & Rutger Bregman)

FromThe Wright Show

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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Jul 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Rutger's new book, Humankind: A Hopeful History ... Debunking the "veneer theory" of human nature ... Are violence and war intrinsic to human nature? ... The human self-domestication thesis ... Why Bob doesn't like the idea of people "deserving punishment" ... Is it bad to emphasize the dark side of human nature? ... What the debunking of the Stanford Prison Experiment can teach us ... Giving money to rich people: Why the U in UBI? ... Would UBI turn us all into couch potatoes (or worse)? ...
Released:
Jul 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.