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The Woke Have Come to Cancel Adam Smith
Just when you think that wokeness could not become more absurd, it surpasses itself.
A leaked document from the Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group recently revealed that the grave of Adam Smith—author of one of the most important books written…
- Samuel Gregg
- The National Interest
There is so much wrong with this claim about the father of modern economics that it is difficult to know where to start. Perhaps the best place to begin is with the fact that Adam Smith…
In his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Smith described slave-traders as “the refuse of the jails of Europe… who possess the…