195 – Book Club – The Comfort Crisis
In this episode I'm unpacking Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self — his argument that modern life has engineered discomfort out of almost everything, and what that's quietly costing us physically and mentally. I'm looking at it through a…
Humankind Part 3
Hi there! In this long-awaited episode, Mellony and Leah spend some time finishing up the book HumanKind by Rutger Bregman
Here's a link to Bregman's Website
Enjoy!
Taj Uppal on risking 6 years in prison for rescuing animals
My guest today is Taj Uppal, an animal rights activist and lawyer. We recorded this conversation while Taj was facing two felony charges and more than six years in prison for rescuing two baby goats from an industrial dairy farm in California. Since recording, a judge has reduced those charges to m…
Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update)
A lot of jobs in the modern economy don’t pay a living wage, and some of those jobs may be wiped out by new technologies. So what’s to be done? We revisit an episode from 2016 for a potential solution.
SOURCES:
Erik Brynjolfsson, professor of economics at Stanford University.
Evelyn Forget, profe…
Humankind: Are We Good Or Evil? - Rutger Bregman - #181
Rutger Bregman is a historian & an author. It's a common-held view of humanity that humans are adversarial. Shaven chimps competing with each other for resources, held together by a veneer of politeness & society. Rutger disagrees and suggests that deep down humans might actually be quite nice. E…
ReThinking: How you can do more for others with Rutger Bregman
What are you doing to make the world around you better? Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and the author of the new book Moral Ambition. He joins Adam live in the Authors@Wharton series to discuss how to stop capable people from wasting their talents, lessons from great moral pioneers, and what i…
Conversation with Rutger Bregman — Human Nature, Power Dynamics, and UBI
Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian and author, joins Scott to discuss his research from his book, “Humankind: A Hopeful History.” We learn about human nature, power dynamics, and his thoughts on Universal Basic Income. Follow Rutger on Twitter, @rcbregman. P.S. Scott is on holiday, so we’ll be back…
Rutger Bregman
In this episode of The Observer Book Club, editor-in-chief, James Harding, talks to the Dutch historian and author, Rutger Bregman, about his latest book, Moral Ambition. Recorded live at the Observer's London newsroom.
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Paul Loeb on Perseverance & Hope in Troubled Times
“If you have a space of democracy that is closing, you have infinitely more leverage to act before it closes than after.” — Paul Rogat Loeb
The Impossible Will Take a Little While is an anthology of essays, speeches, memoirs and poems about perseverance & hope in troubled times. Edited and introdu…
What does it really mean to travel sustainably? Juliet Kinsman asks if luxury hospitality could be part of the solution.
David Chenery speaks with acclaimed travel writer Juliet Kinsman about rethinking sustainability in hospitality.
From supporting local economies to redefining luxury through authenticity and human connection, Juliet explores how travel can create positive change. They also discuss the power of sto…
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