An illustrations from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514).What a golden age this is for trolls. Never has it been easier, with the proper combination of disdain, ignorance, and calculated condescension, to work hundreds of thousands of strangers into an indignant lather. If you don’t mind the occasional death threat, the polemic has never… Read More »

Source: On the Pleasures of Not Reading