Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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This Sunday February 1, 2026, historian Uwe Alschner (author at The Benefit of the Other) will present the Rising Tide Foundation lecture of the week followed by a robust Q and A session with everyone in the live audience.

What are the principled ideas that have positively shaped the long arc of human history and liberated humanity from the shackles of oligarchism?

Uwe provides a guided tour of universal history in his Rising Tide Foundation lecture ‘The Pursuit of Happiness - From Dante and Erasmus to Leibniz and Ben Franklin’.

Follow Uwe's work here: benefitoftheother.substack.com

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