Stoicism was one of ancient Greece's philosophical movements founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC ...

In the past few weeks, the cynicism meter has ticked up several notches because of the decisions made by the outgoing ...

Today we use words and concepts coined by thinkers such as Plato or Epicurus, although often with a different meaning ...

This editorial, written by Francis P. Church, first appeared in the New York Sun on Sept. 21, 1897. It runs in The Daily Star again this year in honor of ...

Psychoanalysis doesn’t need to be real or reasonable. Here its make-believe meets the artist Bill Watterson’s make-believe. At first glance, ‘Calvin and Hobbes,’ the comic strip, is about a ...

Julie and I were playing pickleball in Maine. It was her idea, and I told her I would come along on my off day, so each ...

It is to be hoped that these latest incidents and the reaction to them by radicals will diminish the attention the media give ...

But in the halls of the show, the degree of cynicism is jarring ... where he expresses his social critiques and humanist philosophy while protecting himself by remaining invisible in this ...

And that philosophy shaped much of how I approached ... The Surprising Science of Human Goodness.” Jamil Zaki defines cynicism as the belief people are selfish, greedy and dishonest.

And that philosophy shaped much of how I approached school and work ... A psychology professor at Stanford recently wrote a book titled, “Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness.” ...