It seems remarkable that until last year no one had written a book documenting and exploring the friendship between the Scottish philosophers Adam Smith and David Hume. Happily, Dennis Rasmussen, a professor of political science at Tufts University in Massachusetts, has rectified that. The Infidel and the Professor, his account of a “friendship that changed modern thought”, is a charming work. Our politicians would benefit from reading it and so, frankly, would you. What Smith and Hume called…

Source: The Times January 02, 2018 00:00 UTC