For many, Spinoza is iconic, a “secular saint,” combining his herculean efforts to understand the world by methodical reasoning with the humble life.
'The remarkable capacity of the Jewish nation to outlive all its enemies may quite well be the result of this small physical intervention.'
Simon Schama reveals some basic truths of Jewish history.
Philosophy and comics team up to tell the story of one 17th-century thinker who, though despised in his own time, may be an antidote for today's ills.