The Age of Unenlightenment
Sat 21 Nov · St Columba’s
Hosted by London St Andrew’s Book Festival
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Scots have always been proud of the part our great thinkers - Adam Smith, David Hume, Robbie Burns - played in the Enlightenment. The promise was that the more reliable information we have the more ‘enlightened’ the world would be. But in the 21st century Information Age is the opposite now the case? Author and broadcaster Gavin Esler explores our Un-Enlightenment, the deluge of often unreliable information that engulfs us and keeps us uninformed. Saturday, 21 November 2026 18:30 - 19:30 St Columba’s - Sanctuary
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