Ryan Holiday isn’t a trained philosopher, but hundreds of thousands of people turn to him for a daily dose of wisdom and insight. Holiday’s status as a college dropout makes him a “pen-and-ink ...

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The Stoics argued that, like ants and bees, human beings are profoundly social animals. Source: PolyDot/Pixabay As the author of a book on Stoicism, I'm always asked, “What’s the difference between ...

Stoicism has been experiencing a revival in recent times, with American marketer Ryan Holiday serving as the unlikely modern godfather of the ancient philosophy. Ahead of a lecture in Dublin, he meets ...

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 ...

Most Stoic reading lists in 2026 are the same five titles by the same four ancient writers. The books below are not. They are modern works of philosophy and contemplative writing that take up the ...

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