Harvard has rejected common sense. When Lord Acton, the great 19th-century historian and champion of liberty, visited Harvard in 1853, he found that the college’s philosophy was common sense realism.

it will have no fewer than seven events, headlined by VIP guest, Brian Cox in conversation with Arabella Weir at the Adam ...

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A general view of the world's first public monument to Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Picture: David Cheskin/PA And he highlighted Edinburgh’s ...

March 1), cites Adam Smith, the Scottish economist and philosopher, to the effect that people are naturally more concerned with their own suffering than with other people’s. Since I suspect that ...

On return, he sought out friends and companions who included other great figures of the Scottish Enlightenment such as Adam Smith, and grew into the clubbable, slightly chubby figure captured in ...

Set in Edinburgh, the play sees Cox portray Adam Smith, the pioneering Scottish philosopher and economist, and the ghost of fiscal past. Graham’s writing dives into the “unchecked growth ...

Make It Happen' by James Graham will see 'Succession' star Cox portray Adam Smith, the pioneering Scottish philosopher and economist at this year's Edinburgh International Festival. By Lily Ford ...

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith which was one of a minority not to be destroyed by him will go on display in his home town of Kirkcaldy, Fife. Smith, who became a leading ...

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A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is to go on display in his home town in Fife. The book by philosopher John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government ...