What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill review – a thrilling prescription for humanity

Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, a philosopher’s guide to ‘ethical living’ for dangerous times

“Lately I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end,” Tony Soprano tells his therapist at their first session, and it’s natural to feel the same about your place in human history: that these are the twilight years. Hundreds of millennia of human activity stretch back behind us – the stone age and the bronze age and the iron age, the ancient world, the …

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