For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leade
We know that Marcus Aurelius cried when he was told that his favorite tutor passed away. We know tha
For most of us, things are pretty good right now. The economy is booming. Our jobs or our personal l
It’s very easy to associate our possessions and our positions with our identity. There’s even an exp
Things we didn’t want to happen happen to all of us. A business deal falls through. A grade comes ba
Two years ago, the world lost a great scholar and Stoic philosopher, Peter Lawler. Peter, a longtime
We tell ourselves that if we just get paid more or get promoted, we’ll stop being so miserable at wo
A few years ago a study by Brad Bushman at Ohio State University found a link between low blood suga
On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Her solo
Robert Caro is getting old and people are getting worried. He’s now 83 and each day that passes make
Think about the last time that someone made you upset. What did they say? What did they do? Now thin
Bertrand Russell was no fan of the Stoics. He thought they were cold, hated riches and passion. He t
There’s plenty written about people pushing through failure, pulling themselves out of the depths of
On the eve of the 2008 election, the journalist Joe Klein asked Barack Obama how he’d made his decis
Sometimes we get asked or tasked with doing stuff in life we’d rather not have to do. Maybe that’s w
When James Stockdale was shot down in Vietnam, he was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. He spe
It’s easy to look at people who are calm and self-disciplined and assume that their disposition come
Of the Stoics, Seneca seems like the one who had the most fun. He’s the one who it’s easiest to pict
In his Discourses, Epictetus asks a probing question: “Your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness,
In one of the darkest passages in all of Stoic thought, Epictetus discusses the prospect of putting
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was recently interviewed by the New York Times about his g
