David Hume

2 months ago | audible.com | Kat Johnson |Stanley Tucci |David Hume

Hunger Games hive, rise up. Suzanne Collins’s blockbuster dystopian series is set to return with an all-new audiobook, Sunrise on the Reaping, on March 18. The timing couldn’t be better for fans who have been feverishly speculating about how Sunrise might continue the story ever since the release of the last installment, the 2020 prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was adapted into a hit film.

Dec 16, 2024 | northernirelandworld.com | David Hume

Denis Whiteside, who passed away last month in Ontario, was a Larne man who never forgot his home town. The son of William John Whiteside and Mary Bell, who were married at Cairncastle Presbyterian Church in 1928, Denis lost his father, who worked at the Magheramorne Cement Works, at a young age. His mother Mary, originally from Govan in Glasgow, raised her two sons, Denis and Alf at their home at Priory Place.

Oct 8, 2024 | huonnews.com | David Hume

What a lovely load of old rubbish. The art world is full of objects reviewed, by more renowned reviewers than myself, as rubbish. Many have since come to be respected as high concept art, Duchamp's Fountain, a most famous example while smashed and rusting cars are commonly installed as art, in gardens and galleries. More recently artists such as H A Schult continue the Pop Art tradition making art from waste as a critique of consumerism.

Sep 16, 2024 | lawliberty.org | David Hume |Max Skjönsberg |Steven Hayward |Richard Samuelson

David Hume (1711–76) is mainly known today as one of the great philosophers. But in his lifetime, he became rich and famous as a historian. It was also as a historian that he was best known to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and other American Revolutionaries. In the twentieth century, Hume’s History of England fell out of print, but it eventually regained its reputation as a masterpiece, partly thanks to Liberty Fund’s edition of the work, published in 1983.

Aug 29, 2024 | afr.com | David Hume |George Williams

David Hume and George WilliamsAug 30, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Sir Robert Menzies once described referendums as one of the labours of Hercules. In the wake of nine failed polls since 1984, some might see the challenge as more Sisyphean than Herculean.