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Like every modern consumer, before I buy new sneakers, book a hotel room, or make a restaurant ...

When we think about Stoic philosophers, we typically think about the thinkers of ancient Greece and Rome, ...

When you take a step back from it, modern war is genuinely bizarre. Nation-states, formed by drawing arbitrary ...

To be successful at their craft, magicians must possess the well-honed technical skills to pull off their ...

In the mid-1980s, David Hemery set out to answer a burning question: "What makes a winner?" Hemery was ...

When people think of the paratroopers of World War II, they tend to think of the European theater — the ...

The charge to be well-mannered, to treat others with civility, kindness, and respect, is perennial. But ...

In the classic Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper, the ant works through the summer, storing ...

Discipline is essential to every success in life. It establishes the stable, well-ordered ground that ...

Do you feel stuck in life — that you aren't making progress in a relationship, job, or goal and you ...

When the video game Rock Band became popular, kids flocked to music lessons, inspired to learn how to ...

When Daniel Zia Joseph decided to join the Army at the unusually late age of 32, he solicited advice from ...

I enjoy browsing used bookstores. I like walking down the aisles, looking at the tattered spines of the ...

Note: This is a rebroadcast of a favorite episode from the archives. Writing an email while on a Zoom ...

The modern world can feel curiously unreal. We wake, work, and sleep in climate-controlled boxes. We ...

 Different generations love to cast aspersions on each other. Boomers think Millennials and Gen Zers are ...

Back in 2015, I started barbell training seriously.  Thanks to some great coaching, I was able to ...

On page 172 of Jean Edward Smith’s biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ike is almost 52 years old, an age ...

When most people think of psychopaths, they think of uniformly monstrous characters who lack empathy and ...

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a statesman, diplomat, and man of letters. In his own time, ...