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Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley. Three great U.S generals that led the Allies to victory in Europe during ...

In the play The Crucible, the character John Proctor, who is innocent of witchcraft, has decided to ...

For thousands of years, the Spartans have captured the imaginations of Westerners. In ancient Greece, the ...

Does your life ever feel like the movie Groundhog Day? You seemingly repeat the same old loop over and ...

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Our Deportment by John H. Young, an etiquette manual ...

This Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the United States. It’s a holiday dedicated to gratitude, and ...

Your time on earth is finite and once you use it up, it's gone forever. Thus on the AoM podcast, we talk a ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Robert Greene's new book, The Laws of Human Nature. We ...

How you start something is often how you finish it, and that couldn't be truer than for the trajectory of ...

"Sitting in the Seat of Judgement" From The Crown of Individuality, 1909 By William George ...

Magicians usually become magicians because they experienced a sense of wonder seeing a cool trick as a kid, ...

In August 1937, Ernest Hemingway stopped by the office of Max Perkins, his book editor at Scribner's. ...

"Warrior" is a word that gets thrown around a lot. There are road warriors, and social justice warriors, and ...

When you think of wartime prison escapes, what comes to mind? Probably the breakouts attempted by prisoners ...

Welcome back to our monthly series that summarizes, expands, and riffs on each of the seven ...

The ancient Greek poet Archilochus said, "A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing." The ...

Are people mostly good or mostly bad? We're apt to think of ourselves as good people, while thinking of ...

When the CDC reported a few months ago that suicide rates had risen over the last two decades in nearly ...

Welcome back to our monthly series that summarizes, expands, and riffs on each of the seven ...

When David Giffels was 50 years old and completely healthy, he decided to build his own coffin with his ...