Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy and Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Spinoza: A Life (winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award), Rembrandt’s Jews (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age, and The Philosopher, the Priest and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes.