Originally published on Culture Critic The gap between medieval and modern art might seem unbridgeable. But there is one painting that connects the two — and it’s as strange as you might expect. Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is more than a visual masterpiece. It holds the keys to some big questions: […]
Does Wealth Require Bad Government and Religious Extremism?
Does Wealth Require Bad Government and Religious Extremism? In a word, “Yes.” Imagine a nation, any nation, that suddenly stumbles upon vast quantities of unearned wealth; what would happen? Now, for our purposes, it doesn’t really matter what that unearned wealth might be – it could be a magic meteor […]