Rutger Bregman: historian in the news

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🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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We speak to Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, who recently hit the headlines with his appearance at the World Economic Forum and an unaired interview on Fox News. He discusses some of the ideas that caused a global sensation and the role of a historian in the modern world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.1	excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. I see history as the most subversive of all the sciences, right?
0:52.1	Because history shows that things can be different, that there's nothing inevitable about the way things are right now, that we can radically restructure our society, our economy, you name it.
0:59.1	That was Rutger Bregman on The Power of History.
1:08.0	You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, with the UK's best-selling
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1:26.9	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast.
1:29.9	I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC History magazine.
1:33.6	In today's episode, we'll be speaking to one of the historians of the moment, Rutger Bregman.
1:38.8	Rutger first made headlines in January for his appearance at the Davos World Economic Forum,
1:44.1	where he criticised
1:45.0	rich attendees for tax avoidance. Following that, a heated interview he did with Tucker Carlson
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