Utopia for Realists

And How We Can Get There – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures

Rutger Bregman (Author)

Utopia for Realists

And How We Can Get There – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures

Rutger Bregman (Author)

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – FROM THE 2025 BBC REITH LECTURER

'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer

'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times

'The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas' Guardian

In Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable. Every milestone of civilisation – from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy – was once considered a utopian fantasy. New utopian ideas such as universal basic income and a fifteen-hour work week can become reality in our lifetime.

From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has come.

As the 2025 BBC Reith Lecturer, Rutger Bregman will present 'Moral Revolution', a four part series:
-A Time of Monsters
-How To Start a Moral Revolution
-A Realist's Utopia
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Available to listen on BBC Four

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Published	05 Mar 2017
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Pages	336
ISBN	9781408890257
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

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Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman, a historian and writer, is one of…

In this surprising, accessible and often counterintuitive book Bregman explores some brilliant but simple ideas for making a better world

Brian Eno
This is a Read Now book. Nothing dystopian about this one: a practical set of ideas for how the next generation can do better

Jeanette Winterson
If you're bored with hackneyed debates, decades-old right-wing and left-wing clichés, you may enjoy the bold thinking, fresh ideas, lively prose, and evidence-based arguments in Utopia for Realists

Steven Pinker, author of 'The Language Instinct'
This is a book stuffed full of ideas, presented persuasively and pithily, but it is also just a part of the new zeitgeist – which is why it is one for today's dreamers and tomorrow's realists

Danny Dorling, Times Higher Educational Supplement
Rutger Bregman is the most exciting radical thinker of my generation. If you read him and you aren't thrilled, mentally expanded, and infused with hope, call for the undertaker - I suspect you've died. Oh - and did I mention he is a beautiful writer too?

Johann Hari, Sunday Times bestselling-author of 'Lost Connections'
Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future

Andrew Anthony, Observer