Tag: Enlightenment

A month after the arrival of Scotland's Hate Crime Act and it appears reports of the demise of the Scottish Enlightenment may have been premature, no thanks to the SNP but due to the doughty spirit of the Scots.

Dr James Alexander, a politics professor, has diagnosed the main cause of our current malaise: acceleration anxiety. No longer relating to eternal things, we are anxious only to reach the future as fast as possible.