Thursday's Trailheads

The Pocket Adam Smith by Julia R. Cartwright The Scotland that produced Smith was itself instructive. Montes gives a vivid description of the paradox of a nation that in the early eighteenth century was the poorest in Europe, yet within decades produced a disproportionate share of the modern world’s foundational ideas. The Act of Union with England in 1707, which most Scots mourned as a loss of…