philosophy
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Painting: The Barque of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell) by Eugène Delacroix, 1822. “Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect.” – Murray Rothbard With the advent of the handheld computer, everyone thinks himself a doctor, physicist or
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Painting: Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens, 1610. A world classic. The Golden Bough” describes our ancestors’ primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is
The Fountainhead 