Rutger Bregman
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Rutger Bregman

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Rutger Bregman (1988) is a Dutch historian, bestselling author, and co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition.

His books Utopia for Realists (2017), Humankind (2020) and Moral Ambition (2025) have been translated into 46 languages and have sold around 2.5 million copies worldwide.

The Guardian called him ‘the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas’, and TED named him ‘one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers’. His TED Talk ‘Poverty Isn’t a Lack of Character; It’s a Lack of Cash’ went viral and was chosen by TED curator Chris Anderson as one of the ten best talks of 2017.

In December 2025, he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. The full, uncensored text will be published in January 2027 as Moral Revolution.
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