Let’s face it—modern life can feel overwhelming. Deadlines. Bad news. Social media noise. Emotional roller coasters. We’re constantly trying to stay afloat in a world that seems to pull us in every ...

Mark Athitakis, in the Washington Post this week, accuses popular books on Stoicism of pandering to a general audience interested in self-help. Some of these books might as well be Tony Robbins', he ...

The American historian Will Durrant once wrote that nations are born stoic and die epicurean: a catchy but misleading aphorism that has led people to conflate stoicism and apathy. A far more accurate ...

“What if someone told you that much of the suffering in your life was simply due to the way you think about things?” This rhetorical question opens The Pocket Stoic, written by John Sellars and ...

A FIELD GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE: 53 Brief Lessons for Living. By Massimo Pigliucci. Basic Books. 160 pages. $12. While many followers of philosophy might opt for Epicureanism as a roadmap to an ...

You may hear the word stoic and, like many, have a misconception that stoics are stone-faced, unfeeling Shakespearean actors on a stage. Not the case. Stoicism isn’t a definition -- it’s a practice.

Since retiring from the University of Notre Dame, North Carolina native Tom Morris has made it his business to take philosophy off campus and into the everyday world. Through his Wilmington-based ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Described on the cover as “part memoir, part biography, part imagination”, Heather Taylor-Johnson’s Little Bit deploys autofiction to ...

How often have you finished a book and tucked it away on your bookshelf? Or how often have you borrowed a book, read it, and returned it? There’s a difference between reading and living a book. Most ...