You could call them the three pillars of the American Idea. These three pillars are the direct gifts to America of three great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment: Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, ...

Messrs. Pooley and Gilder remind us that the book’s themes remain fresh.

A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in ...

Adam Smith loved books, and he used the library ... “Annotating books was common in the 18th century, reflecting the Enlightenment practice of ‘thinking’ through a text rather than ...

Series exploring the life and work of Scottish philosophers Adam Smith and David Hume. Smith was known as the 'father of modern economics' and Hume was considered an architect of the Enlightenment ...

4/5 Smith's new book is a success but there’s sad news about the health of a close friend.