Louise O'Neill: 'It would be easy to become disillusioned, to lose all faith'
Louise O'Neill, author. Picture: Moya Nolan
When the International Literature Festival of Dublin asked me if I would interview Rutger Bregman, the Dutch historian and author, I was racking my brain trying to remember why the name was so familiar. Then I remembered that in 2019, someone sent a video of Bregman into my university Whatsapp group with the caption – “wow, this guy is brave.”
Bregman had been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum at Davos on the basis of his first book, Utopia for Realists, where he argued for a shorter work week, basic income paid to everyone, and the opening of borders worldwide.
