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Ritual is one of the oldest and most universal forms of human expression in the world. Over the last ...

Welcome back to our series on the nature and power of ritual. So far, we have talked about ritual’s ...

According to his biographer, Robert Coram, John Boyd made “more contributions to fighter tactics, ...

“Pay attention!” “If you just focused more, you’d be more successful!” We’ve all ...

In advance of a series of articles we’ll be doing this year on some of the rites that have been central ...

Editor's note: As you look back on the year that has just past, do you feel as though you spent another 12 ...

The prompts below are now available in a paperback journal, for completely offline reference and ...

Earlier this week we explored the nature of ritual and posited that its current scarcity may be at the ...

 In today's episode I talk to writer Steven Pressfield. Steven has written over a dozen books in both ...

From Faith for Living, 1940 By Lewis Mumford Man's chief purpose...is the creation and preservation ...

Unless you regularly read this blog, you may never have heard someone use the word manliness in writing or ...

 In today's episode I talk to author Christopher Klein about his new biography of famed 19th century ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from a commencement address author David Foster Wallace gave in 2005 to ...

Picture freedom. What image comes to mind? When Sergeant Shifty Powers, one of the original Band of ...

 In today's episode I talk to A.J. Jacobs, editor-at-large at Esquire Magazine, writer of several ...

Awhile back I was doing a HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workout over on a nearby running/biking ...

  From "Life Without Principle" By Henry David Thoreau Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most ...

It’s time for another installment of AoM Instructional Videos. In this video we take a look at the ins ...

Editor's Note: The following article appeared in a 1902 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine (which started out ...

Do you sometimes feel like you spend all your time managing crises? That your life is basically spent ...