Cato's Suicide, by Charles Le Brun. Source: Wikicommons/public domain In the Classical World, the old religion privileged ritual over doctrine, and educated people turned instead to philosophy for ...

The self-help market is flooded with books about Stoicism, an ancient school of philosophy that emphasizes equanimity and self-mastery and that includes, among its proponents, famed Roman statesman ...

As our founders understood, Stoicism is a mode of thought oriented towards model citizenship, not a trendy life-hack. Even more cynically, and as some writers have argued, there’s something a bit self ...