Life doesn't send warning texts before it knocks you down. One day you're coasting, the next you're flat on your back, wondering what happened. Here's the thing, though: about 2,000 years ago, some ...

With the world suffering from atrocities and being bombarded with appalling headlines, it is possible to find some peace, solace and encouragement through reading a brief daily devotional. Millions ...

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“Only virtue is lofty and exalted, nor is anything great if it is not also calm.” Thus Seneca the Younger in his essay On Anger, written in (probably) the 40’s A.D. Nearly two thousand years later, ...

DEATH OF A MAN (181 pp.)—Lael Tucker Wertenbaker—Random House ($3.50). Charles Christian Wertenbaker was a member of one of Virginia’s grand old families, an able journalist (on and off from 1931 to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The heatwave in Europe is no laughing matter, but UK cinema chain Showcase pulled off a brilliant lighthearted marketing stunt: offering free movie tickets to redheads who are “often more vulnerable ...