📜 The Print Shop Rebels: Why History’s Steering Wheel Isn’t Out of Reach

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There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with living through a time of monsters. You know the feeling—when you open your phone, and it's all crumbling institutions, shameless elites, and a general sense that the ship is sinking while the captain argues about which deck chairs look best on camera. It's the exhaustion of witnessing history's slow-motion car crash while everyone insists you're the crazy one for wanting to grab the wheel.

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, in his recent BBC Reith Lectures, calls this our "interregnum"—that dangerous gap between when one world dies and another struggles to be born. 

Bregman isn't here to sell us despair. He's here to sell us something far more dangerous: possibility.

Rutger Bregman • BBC Radio 4 • The Reith Lectures • Nov 24 - Dec 15 2025

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 PRX Series: The Possible World

Feb 27: S6 E38- The Good Wolf We Keep Starving/ Why Our Cynicism About Human Nature Is Killing Us
  
 Mar 10: S6 E43- We Already Live in Utopia. So Why Are We So Miserable?
  
 Mar 12: S6 E44- The Print Shop Rebels: Why History's Steering Wheel Isn't Out of Reach

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