October 15, 2020 Old fool mistaken for genius by western civilization I was surprised to discover that Aristotle was an idiot. I curated my list hoping to stock it with the good stuff, and I…
October 12, 2020 Grouchy old coot tells you how to live your life I spent the better part of six months reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I think it took so long because every time I picked it…
October 8, 2020 Leading stoic surprisingly not the life of the party Marcus Aurelius repeats himself. He doesn’t use the same words, but he circles the same handful of ideas over and over. His Meditations contains twelve books,…
October 1, 2020 You had unlimited power and you chose to do what? Suetonius was gossipy old fuck. Over the course of The Twelve Caesars, he labors over the worst behaviors of some of the most morally…