Dr. Michael Brown holds a Chair in Irish, Scottish and Enlightenment History at the University of Aberdeen where he is also acting director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. The author of biographical studies of Francis Hutcheson and John Toland, he is currently working on a book for Harvard University Press entitled The Irish Enlightenment, 1688-1798. His most recent edited volume is Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland, with John Kirk and Andrew Noble (London, 2013). Commissioning editor of the book series Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution with Pickering & Chatto Press, he is also a regular issue editor of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. His next project is a student textbook for Routledge entitled A Cultural History of Europe, 1688-1914: The Birth of Modernity.
A pleasure to review @joldmcginn's fine book, WHY DEMOCRACY NEEDS THE RICH.
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/how-should-we-think-about-inequality/
With thanks to my man, @lsheahan, who is giving @ubookman some "oomph" these days.
The radical materialist culture of the last two hundred years, equally common to both the Communist East and the capitalist West, has brought in its wake a high degree of material and technological advancement, with many obvious benefits for mankind. - William Scott on Aleksandr