Is it time for us to redefine what we mean by career success? Rutger Bregman thinks so, and his new book, Moral Ambition, makes a brisk and persuasive case for ditching “mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs” and doing something more meaningful instead. He’s aiming this book squarely at the “idealistic and ambitious” person of any age who works in consulting, law, finance and other well-paid sectors. Bregman is no ambition slouch himself. The superstar Dutch historian has published several books and essays, including the global bestsellers (2020) and Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There (2017). He went viral on YouTube in 2019 after calling out billionaires at the World Economic Forum in Davos for their tax avoidance tactics: “It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.” Loading... Financial Times