By Dr. Joseph Chuman I am suffering from outrage overload. Given the macabre and oppressive political times we endure, I am not the only one. Many people, no doubt, seek modes of relief and escape. While I assiduously read the papers and magazines of opinion (these I can control), I find that I often turn […]
Spinoza
The 350th Anniversary of Spinoza’s Excommunication and the Creation of the Modern World
The year 1656 may not loom large in the annals of Western history, but perhaps it should. For it was in that year, on July 27th to be exact, 350 years ago, that a precocious 24-year-old man was excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Jewish community. It was the fate of Baruch Spinoza to become a revolutionary figure […]
