Humankind

Humankind: A Hopeful History pushes the revolutionary theory that “most people, deep down, are pretty decent”. Written by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman), he takes us through centuries of historical events and challenges the beliefs of Machiavelli, Freud and Dawkins, using plenty of research to prove his point – that humans aren’t inherently selfish. Humankind gives an alternative understanding of history, and made me think that maybe, we need a new optimistic lens when looking at humanity... to give us hope for the future. Buy the book here (shorturl.at/jyFQW). Co-host of Literary Friction Octavia Bright ( and Producer at Broccoli Productions Bea Duncan ( join the host of Broccoli Book Club Diyora Shadijanova ( to discuss. In next month’s book club we’ll be discussing Afropean by Johny Pitts, so get reading now and send in your thoughts and comments via voice-note to voicenotes@broccolicontent.com Don’t forget to share the podcast and join the conversation using the . And if you liked what you heard why not leave a review on your favourite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Humankind is an episode from Broccoli Book Club by Sony Music.

This episode is 40:13 long.

This episode was published on Mar 31, 2021.

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