History & The Arts
Robert Burns: a man of his times for today
...the emergence of an uglier, hard-edged nationalism around the world, political and social polarisation, the uncompromising politics of identity, endemic military conflict and conquest, and the threat of climate-change-induced catastrophe, Burns offers a welcome antidote. His is an eighteenth-century voice that speaks as strongly to us now as it did when he was alive. References and further reading Christopher A Whatley, ......