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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 worst readers, Nietzsche claimed, are like “plundering troops” who loot the few ideas they can use and trash the rest. But what if the texts in question are a hodgepodge of good sense and nonsense ...

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 ...