SINGAPORE – Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's new book Humankind puts forth a radical theory – that human beings are fundamentally nice.

It is a hopeful notion that has earned him much backlash, says the 32-year-old over Skype. "How can you ever say that when the Holocaust happened? How can you explain genocides and wars?

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