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Moral Maze debate: Rutger Bregman’s call for a moral revolution

The Reith Lectures by BBC

Nov 25, 202556:47Society & Culture

The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, whose BBC Reith Lectures start this week, is calling for a moral revolution to change our societies for the better, charting how small groups of committed people – abolitionists, suffr...

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