The heatwave in Europe is no laughing matter, but UK cinema chain Showcase pulled off a brilliant lighthearted marketing stunt: offering free movie tickets to redheads who are “often more vulnerable ...

Mark Athitakis, in the Washington Post this week, accuses popular books on Stoicism of pandering to a general audience interested in self-help. Some of these books might as well be Tony Robbins', he ...

Since retiring from the University of Notre Dame, North Carolina native Tom Morris has made it his business to take philosophy off campus and into the everyday world. Through his Wilmington-based ...

The self-help market is flooded with books about Stoicism, an ancient school of philosophy that emphasizes equanimity and self-mastery and that includes, among its proponents, famed Roman statesman ...

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A FIELD GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE: 53 Brief Lessons for Living. By Massimo Pigliucci. Basic Books. 160 pages. $12. While many followers of philosophy might opt for Epicureanism as a roadmap to an ...