History
Tailey, Twirley, Loopey
The Imagination Catches Up
Destroyer and Builder
IN THE SUMMER of 1674, officials of the Dutch court carried out the recommendation of the States of Holland to ban the Theological-Political Treatise, a book that one of its more spiteful antagonists described in an anonymous pamphlet as “forged in hell by the apostate Jew working together with the devil.” It was an inauspicious debut for a work that Steven Nadler calls “one of the most important books of Western thought ever written.” READ MORE >>
Inventing Leonardo, Again
After the Post-Revolution
Defeat Out of Victory
With (and Without) God on Our Side
He's Back!
The Conductor
Promotions
IT CERTAINLY SAYS something about our civilization—and probably nothing good—that many of us have a favorite commercial, whether it is “Where’s the beef?” or “Think different.” It says something else that one of our most beloved television shows is about the moment in history when advertising became a cultural force of its own. I don’t think these phenomena are unrelated. READ MORE >>
