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What Stoicism Sounds Like When It’s Quiet

Stoicism — the Greek philosophical school founded by Zeno of Citium around 300 BC and developed by Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca into the most practiced philosophy of the Roman Empire — ha...

The Best Gifts for Philosophy Lovers (That Aren't Another Book)

They’ve read the books. They’ve argued the positions. Here’s what you actually give the person who takes ideas seriously — and won’t be impressed by anything generic.

Helen Frankenthaler Was Right in 1952. The Art World Took Another Decade.

In the fall of 1952, a twenty-three-year-old painter named Helen Frankenthaler spread an unprimed canvas flat on the floor of her New York studio and poured thinned paint directly onto it. The pain...