I think there is no one who has rendered worse service to the human race than those who have learned philosophy as a mercenary trade.” With this quotation from Seneca, Pierre Hadot begins his ...

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The irony of Robert Crumb, per this alternately rollicking and perceptive biography, is that the cartoonist most identified with 1960s counterculture was no hippie. The man Continue reading » Everyday ...