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Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots: how the poet shaped the enduring cultural legacy of the executed monarch

Internationally synonymous with Scottish identity, Robert Burns is Scotland’s national bard, a status he has achieved through his popularity since his death in 1796. He wrote some of the country’s most famous poems, including the satirical ode, Address to a Haggis and the rousing Scots Wha Hae. His most well-known…

The Conversation

The book that changed my mind – 12 experts share a perspective-shifting read

Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, books are the moments where that shift happens – a sentence that lingers, an argument that unsettles, a story that re-frames how we see the world.…

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Dick Cheney's life in photos

Cheney is often credited for redefining the vice presidency.

Axios

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The man Trump nominated to undermine Fed independence once wrote a scathing critique of how the Fed wasn't independent enough

In naming Miran to the Fed’s seven-member board, President Trump has ignited a firestorm over mixing politics with economic policy.

Fortune

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds

Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

The Guardian - UK

Tracking a Unicorn in Adam Smith's Edinburgh

Edinburgh was the Scottish economist's home and a place for anyone interested in a rich, varied, and liberal life.

Reason

Against Identity by Alexander Douglas review – a superb critique of contemporary self-obsession

A philosopher challenges us to forget about ourselves in this powerfully strange counterblast to identity fetishism

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How Stephen Miran—a Harvard-trained former free market champion—became Trump’s top ideologue on tariffs

Last year Miran, 41, was a virtual unknown. Suddenly the "Mar-a Lago accord" author’s ideas are reshaping the economy.

Fortune

What is Hume: Bring emotional understanding to AI-generated voices

Hume can understand words in context and predict emotions, making conversations sound very human-like.

TechRadar

'Sunrise' arrives at midnight for fans celebrating release of new 'Hunger Games' novel

Bookstores worldwide hosted midnight parties for “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth installment in Suzanne Collins' “Hunger Games” series

The Independent UK

‘A cultural embarrassment’: anger as male sculptor commissioned for statue of suffragist

Planning application reignites row over statue on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile of Elsie Inglis, Scottish suffragist and maternal health pioneer

The Guardian - UK

Why are Australians so reluctant to change our constitution?

The proposal for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament was the first attempt to add Indigenous recognition to the Australian Constitution. Despite what appeared to be encouraging early opinion polls, support declined as the campaign proceeded. The result, as we know, was a resounding failure.

The Conversation

Lights, camera, comfy furnishings: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival

In her hit romcoms, the director’s sets were as popular as the films. Now trending on social media more than a decade after her last movie, her coveted look is back

The Guardian - US

Stockton bean bag gun death: police must hand documents over to watchdog

Court orders 'less lethal' tactics be produced in investigation.

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Police forced to hand 'less lethal' tactics to watchdog

A court has ordered NSW Police to hand over a manual on "less lethal" tactics as a watchdog oversees the investigation into a woman's death.

The Independent UK

New Hunger Games novel by Suzanne Collins will be released next year

‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ is a prequel to the original trilogy and will take place 40 years after the events of Suzanne Collin’s most recent novel, ‘The Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes’

The Guardian - AU

NSW police fight to keep key documents from watchdog regarding death of woman shot with bean bag round

Watchdog wants access to manual on use of ‘less-lethal’ force and personnel logs as part of investigation into Krista Kach’s fatal wounding

Newcastle Herald

Police resist handing 'less lethal' tactics to watchdog

NSW police at odds with the law enforcement watchdog over 'less lethal' tactics.

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Police in legal bid to keep 'less lethal' tactics quiet

NSW police told the Supreme Court handing over guidelines on "less lethal" tactics to the state's law enforcement watchdog may not be in the public interest.

The Guardian - UK

The End of Enlightenment by Richard Whatmore review – a warning from 18th-century Britain

In a study with chilling modern resonance, the history don contends that the age of reason was betrayed by the greed, corruption and barbarism of Britain’s ruling elite

Reason

Adam Smith Understood That We Need Each Other

The thinker's views of human sympathy, beneficence, justice, and the division of labor still resonate.

Reason

Adam Smith's Quiet Christianity

The Scottish thinker's famous friendship with David Hume demonstrates his liberalism, not his atheism.

The National (Scotland)

Why the right have got it all wrong about Adam Smith, one of Scotland's finest minds

We do not know the exact date of his birth but yesterday marked the 300th anniversary of the baptism of Adam Smith, the Kirkcaldy-born father of…

The National (Scotland)

The facts about life of great Scottish economist Adam Smith

TOMORROW sees the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith, one of Scotland’s greatest thinkers most usually accredited with being the father…

The Guardian - UK

Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by

From Aristotle to Iris Murdoch: what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life

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