Civilization

The artist Hieronymus Bosch probably had the most prodigious imagination of his day. He was the great surrealist of the waning Middle Ages. His paintings were both a promise and a threat, intended to convey an idea of what would happen in paradise and, even more so, in hell. He created labyrinths of atrocities and a vocabulary of the bestial.

By Branko Milanovic Living in a post-modern city like New York has many advantages but some disadvantages too. Among the latter is the absence of...