How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today

Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how t…

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