When most of us think of philosophy, our eyes glaze over a little and we ask ourselves how it remotely applies to real life. So when I tell you about a newly released book filled with ancient Stoic ...

Do-gooders of all sorts ask, “What would Jesus do?” Supreme Court justices scratch their heads in the face of modern legal puzzles and wonder, “What would the Framers think?” Orthodox Jews muse over ...

The ancient Chinese author of “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu, wrote, “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” I have also heard many times that the Chinese term for crisis includes the ideas of ...

Stories set in ancient worlds beyond Egypt, Greece and Rome offer a rare sense of distance and depth. These historical books ...

There is something about the Gita that is unmatched. It is a book that has been reviewed, interpreted, and written treaties on numerous times; still, there is something that comes to the fore every ...

Stress and anxiety hamper the quality of life, and recent surveys suggest levels are at an all-time high. Pressures at home and at work have been exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, economic ...

As advances in technology allow for ever more realism in animated features, the artists behind “The Secret of Kells” -- the little-known Irish film that caught even insiders by surprise when it edged ...

The ancient world is filled with strange and powerful beings whose stories shaped the way people understood creation. Among ...

Like a signal from the past, Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria—On the Art of Building, completed in 1452—transmitted urban-planning concepts of classical antiquity to the Renaissance ...

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