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

by Rutger Bregman

Instead of abstract ideals, blueprints consist of immutable rules that tolerate no dissension. The Italian poet Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun (1602) offers a good example. In his utopia, or rather dystopia,