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Mar 2025
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Human-Kind or Human Evil with Rutger Bre...

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Historian and author Rutger Bregman joins Trevor and Christiana to debate ethics and the possibility of a better world. Are human beings innately good? Innately selfish? Which is better to move the human race forward? Which sows the seeds of our own demise? 
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