For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leade
Fabius was one of Ancient Rome’s great generals, though he was not the bold, reckless type that usua
It is certainly true that people can do some awful things to each other. We hear of a trusted repres
Getting angry is not a good look. We know this because we see how ugly other people look when they g
A few weeks ago, a horse at The Preakness threw its jockey right out of the gate and kept running. L
Traveling—that itch to get away, to hit the road, to see the world—feels like a distinctly modern cr
Evan Thomas, in his incisive and humanizing biography of Richard Nixon, asks a penetrating question:
Seneca was a very rich man. He had nice stuff. Critics at the time, and ever since, have found this
So much has happened in the past. We’ve messed up. We’ve been hurt. We’ve missed opportunities and w
While we all hold up humility as an admirable trait, we’re not always sure it can get us to the goal
In the Book of Matthew, we are told of the parable of the talents. Three servants are left sums of m
You’ve probably caught yourself doing it. Life has been rough or depressing, but your social media f
The Stoics were not unacquainted with awful people. They saw tyrants. They saw cheats. They saw toxi
In 2006, Benjamin Mee bought a zoo. Literally a zoo. It was broken down and in desperate need of a c
It’s very easy to get comfortable. To build up your life exactly how you want it to be. Minimize inc
The fact that America exists is the ultimate argument that Stoicism is not apathy and that philosoph
Unlike so many of the other philosophical schools, the Stoics were doers. The Epicureans might have
If you were to run down the list of the great Stoics of history, who would come to mind?Seneca. Marc
Twice, Seneca was exiled. Twice, he basically lost everything. Money. Access. Influence. It all went
King George IV was a notorious glutton. His breakfast supposedly consisted of two pigeons, three ste
When we hear about an athlete who was doubted and kicked around, or an entrepreneur who ends up buyi
