In the mid-’90s, not long after I graduated from college, a friend insisted I read “The Manual,” by the Roman Stoic ...

Stoics would say that there is no “good ... We can aim to lose a stone, read a series of books, teach ourselves a language and help our neighbours. “Alive time is the decision to seize ...

The book’s central thesis, however, is not persuasive. Mr. Rosen vastly overstates the role of Stoicism in the thought of the nation’s Founders. Adams, Jefferson, James Madison and the rest ...