Coronavirus and the dilemma of the ‘Drowning Strangers’

The Mark Gevisser Review
Written By Jesse Mason

- Business Day

If the pandemic has made us think of others, do we wish to help them to help ourselves, or because we are kind and decent?

Mark reviews Rutger Bregman’s Humankind alongside books by Albert Camus (The Plague), Kwame Anthony Appiah and Larissa McFarquhar

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