What academics can teach us about Isil

Those who are really in-the-know about places where art history and the thinking of the past are studied venerate the Warburg Institute. It may be a dreary 1950s University of London building but it houses a unique library that is extraordinary in its rich esotericism, including subjects that modern thought had consigned to the bin of intellectual dead ends or superstition, such as astrology, alchemy, secret codes, fortune-telling and magic. 
To understand the past, you must know what furn