New hopes in a changing world

When the chance of victory is equal to the chance of defeat, optimism leads to overestimating the chance of victory. From the point of view of those who survived, this is considered good luck, but from the point of view of the defeated, it is forgotten. In this book, which was published in 1951, seven years after the end of World War II, Bertrand Russell reviews the major problems and dangers facing the world and threatening the future of humanity, and gives some solutions to confront those problems to tell us that hope truly still exists and is not just a romantic dream that we dream of.