Jerry Seinfeld continues to be in the news, but this time in the unlikely role as a student of philosophy. He has been reading Marcus Aurelius, as he recently informed a tv show host an activity which ...

In this and in a couple of future articles, we shall consider the cultural rivals of Christianity. In the early days, the Christian faith went from being a small sect of Judaism to eventually becoming ...

Cato's Suicide, by Charles Le Brun. Source: Wikicommons/public domain In the Classical World, the old religion privileged ritual over doctrine, and educated people turned instead to philosophy for ...