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For some reason, I haven't been invited to Davos this year. Was it something I said? 🤔 | Rutger Bregman

For some reason, I haven't been invited to Davos this year. Was it something I said? 🤔 | Rutger Bregman

7.7M viewsJan 11, 2020

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Een radicaal idee: wat als de meeste mensen gewoon deugen? | Rutger Bregman

Een radicaal idee: wat als de meeste mensen gewoon deugen? | Rutger Bregman

519.4K viewsJun 19, 2019

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Yes, we need to change the system, but sometimes that starts with changing ourselves. Real revolutions begin with a mirror. | Rutger Bregman

Yes, we need to change the system, but sometimes that starts with changing ourselves. Real revolutions begin with a mirror. | Rutger Bregman

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Short backstage interview at the RSA about the best piece of advice I've been given, who inspires me and what I'm most curious about. | Rutger Bregman

Short backstage interview at the RSA about the best piece of advice I've been given, who inspires me and what I'm most curious about. | Rutger Bregman

4.3K viewsApr 5, 2017

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I’m SO excited to share this news!! Today, we’re launching the first-ever Moral Ambition University Fellowship. And we’re starting at Harvard. This is a program for the most talented students who want to use their summer to do work *that actually matters*. Not polishing boring PowerPoints at McKinsey. Not padding the profits of Goldman Sachs. But tackling the world’s BIGGEST challenges: from global poverty to climate change to preventing the next pandemic. Why start at Harvard? Because for decad

I’m SO excited to share this news!! Today, we’re launching the first-ever Moral Ambition University Fellowship. And we’re starting at Harvard. This is a program for the most talented students who want to use their summer to do work *that actually matters*. Not polishing boring PowerPoints at McKinsey. Not padding the profits of Goldman Sachs. But tackling the world’s BIGGEST challenges: from global poverty to climate change to preventing the next pandemic. Why start at Harvard? Because for decad

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Rome didn’t fall overnight. It rotted in public first. Tell me this all doesn’t sound too familiar… Want to ask me a question? Sign up for the upcoming live Q&A about the Reith Lectures on February 4th, on the Moral Ambition Community platform. Link in bio! | Rutger Bregman

Rome didn’t fall overnight. It rotted in public first. Tell me this all doesn’t sound too familiar… Want to ask me a question? Sign up for the upcoming live Q&A about the Reith Lectures on February 4th, on the Moral Ambition Community platform. Link in bio! | Rutger Bregman

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Absolutely incredible footage from today, the biggest protest of the 21st century in The Netherlands. Never seen anything like it in my country. 150,000 people in The Hague to protest against the genocide in Palestine. | Rutger Bregman

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Historian Rutger Bregman previews his 2025 Reith Lectures, ‘Moral Revolution’. He explores the decline of today’s elites, lessons from past movements like the fight to abolish the slave trade, and how small groups can spark big change. The Reith Lectures | Listen on BBC Sounds | BBC Radio 4

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In the late 1960s and 70s, the best graduates from prestigious institutions like Harvard and Yale didn’t descend on Wall Street. They worked for Ralph Nader. They were called Nader’s Raiders, a scrappy band of young idealists who became one of the most powerful forces in American political life. Their fingerprints are on dozens of landmark reforms: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and sweeping advances in consumer protection, corporate accountability, and government transparency. Today, R

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Teaser for my new book MORAL AMBITION! It just came out in Dutch and the first translators have already started working on the manuscript! 🚀🚀🚀 | Rutger Bregman

6.3K viewsApr 6, 2024

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The world doesn’t change because you stayed morally spotless. It changes when you bite your tongue, make the trade-offs, and actually move things forward. | Rutger Bregman

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Have you ever heard of the psychological phenomenon called ‘elevation’? Among the first psychologists to study this effect was Jonathan Haidt, in the late 1990s. In one of his articles he tells the story of a student who helped an old lady shovel snow from her driveway. One of his friends, seeing this selfless act, later wrote: ‘I felt like jumping out of the car and hugging this guy. I felt like singing and running, or skipping and laughing. Just being active. I felt like saying nice things abo

7.1K viewsJun 18, 2024

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In my early 20s I felt stuck between two worlds. Academia had the big questions I loved, like why the Industrial Revolution started in England or why humans (and not Neanderthals) conquered the globe. But I’d have to specialize for years before I could even ask them. Journalism was faster, but too focused on breaking news, not the deeper patterns that shape our lives. Then at 25 I found the perfect opportunity. A new Dutch platform, @decorrespondent, said: write about whatever you want, as long

7.5K viewsMay 15, 2025

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A few weeks ago I visited Harvard. Everywhere I looked, I saw bright students with big dreams. And yet, I couldn’t shake a familiar feeling. I knew that, statistically speaking, almost half of them would vanish into what a friend of mine calls the Bermuda Triangle of Talent: finance, corporate law, consulting. Three industries that suck up thousands of bright minds. And what do they give back to us? A hedge fund that is a little bit more efficient? A clever new tax loophole, so the ultra-rich ca

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Throughout history we’ve seen many ordinary people become extraordinary. If you want to make a difference, it’s not really about whether you’re ‘cut out for it’ with your precise mix of personal traits. It’s not about who you are, it’s about who you can become. You don’t do good things because you’re a good person. You become a good person by doing good things. So lower your threshold for taking action. Get started. And once you’ve started, ask others to join in. Get started with my new book MOR

5.4K viewsMay 3, 2025

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Universal Basic Income may appear to be a radical concept. But at its core it addresses the simple question: What if a person’s existence did not need to be justified by work? We have generally accepted and assumed throughout a majority of our history that work is what creates a structure to our lives and instills meaning into it. However, society is beginning to lose that belief. A growing number of people particularly in well-paid, white-collar roles no longer believe their jobs are necessary.

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So I hear Tucker Carlson, arguably the greatest hypocrite on the planet, is trying to make his comeback. Would love to be on his show again 😆 Here we have a man who decries the so-called "mainstream media" at every opportunity, only to turn around and conduct a propaganda interview with the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. A man who portrays himself as an 'outsider' even though he's a millionaire funded by billionaires.A man who privately confessed a profound loathing for Donald Trump, but now

165.4K viewsJul 26, 2024

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Every major movement in history was built by people who didn’t fully agree with each other. If someone’s with you 70–80% of the way, they’re not your enemy, they’re your ally. | Rutger Bregman

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Many are laughing at how clownish this administration feels, but historians of fascism aren’t laughing, some are packing their bags. Crackdowns on universities. Pressure on judges. Tactics straight out of Hungary and Poland, now showing up here. | Rutger Bregman

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For most of history, progress was a flat line, then came the industrial revolution, and everything took off like a rocket. The only question now is: does this story end in liftoff… or collapse? This is a short excerpt from the incredible video @themarketexit made - one of my favorite interviews I did. Made by an incredible independent creator. Check it out on YouTube! | Rutger Bregman

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If we want to change the world, we need the courage to be unrealistic, unreasonable, and impossible. Remember: those who called for the abolition of slavery, for suffrage for women, and for same-sex marriage were also once branded lunatics. Until history proved them right. Or in the words of Oscar Wilde: ‘A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out

3.4K viewsAug 1, 2024

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The political revolution that reshaped America didn’t start with Donald Trump.It started with a memo. In 1971, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell, who also sat on the board of tobacco giant Philip Morris, wrote a private memo urging America’s business leaders to fight back against what they called ‘Big Government’. That memo sparked a movement. Over time, it helped launch think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, fund political groups, and build a whole e

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For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans. It’s time to tax those billionaires. And no, that’s not communism, that’s common sense. It's what most people support. In fact, it's what we did in the 1950s and 60s, during the so-called 'Golden Age of Capitalism', when we had much higher rates of economic growth and Eisenhower was president. Back in those days, the 400 richest Americans paid more than half of their income in taxes. Today,

6.2K viewsMay 20, 2024

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What if your next career move actually changed the world? We’re launching the second edition of the Moral Ambition Fellowship—a full-time, paid opportunity for ambitious professionals ready to take on two of the world’s most urgent (and overlooked) challenges. This isn’t a side project. As a fellow, you’ll leave your current role to join a career-defining program starting this September. You’ll get trained by global experts, work alongside peers just as driven as you are, and complete a 6-month

4.2K viewsApr 2, 2025

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The news, according to dozens of studies, is a mental health hazard. First to open up this field of research, back in the 1990s, was George Gerbner (1919–2005). He also coined a term to describe the phenomenon he found: mean world syndrome, whose clinical symptoms are cynicism, misanthropy and pessimism. People who follow the news are more likely to agree with statements such as ‘Most people care only about themselves.’ They more often believe that we as individuals are helpless to better the wo

1.8K viewsJun 15, 2024

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When we first announced our Moral Ambition Fellowship at Harvard, some people pushed back: ‘Why focus on privileged kids? Aren’t they just future sell-outs?’ I get the question. But what we’ve found is the opposite. Most students genuinely want to do good, they’re just funneled into BS-jobs by companies with marketing and recruiting budgets the size of small nations. When you’re 20 and unsure what to do with your life, the path of least resistance is hard to resist. That’s why we’re here at The

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Here's a truth as old as time: power corrupts. Psychological research shows that people under the influence of power are more impulsive, self-centred, reckless, arrogant and rude than average, they are more likely to cheat on their spouses, are less attentive to other people and less interested in others’ perspectives. Power appears to work like an anaesthetic that makes you insensate to other people. Neurologists have discovered that a sense of power disrupts what is known as ‘mirroring’, a men

6.6K viewsJul 29, 2024

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This video will probably get fewer likes than my posts about taxing billionaires. And that difference says everything. Factory farming survives on silence. You don’t need to change your diet — just be aware of what is possible if we hold these companies accountable. Every donation is currently matched, so your $1 becomes $2 through December 31st, 2025. LINK IN BIO! moralambition.org/food | Rutger Bregman

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Never thought I’d be referencing Simba in my work, but here we are. When boys can’t find real heroes, they turn to fantasy. Or to frauds. It’s time we gave them better role models. | Rutger Bregman

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