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  • What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame

    What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame5

    In the 1980s, Johnny Cash, the former king of country, was increasingly marginalized and forgotten. After a series of failed albums, Columbia, his label of 25 years, dropped him. But his career was not quite over. Producer Rick Rubin saw Cash perform alongside Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in 1992 and recognized that “the

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  • What Jerry Seinfeld Learned While Reading Marcus Aurelius

    What Jerry Seinfeld Learned While Reading Marcus Aurelius1

    Emperor of Rome from 161–180 AD, Marcus Aurelius is remembered as the “Philosopher King,” largely because of his classic work Meditations, a cornerstone of Stoic philosophy that delves into such themes as reason, virtue, self-control, self-improvement, and finding peace in a turbulent world. The book might seem like an odd choice for a comedian, but Seinfeld

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  • What Jeff Bezos Gets Right About Parenting

    What Jeff Bezos Gets Right About Parenting0

    Jeff Bezos was recently interviewed by his younger brother, Mark, at the Summit ideas conference in Los Angeles. The nearly hour-long discussion included a loving portrait of their childhood as well as the Amazon founder’s theories on childrearing. For those of us who believe in the importance of greater independence for our children and have

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  • What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago

    What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago1

    • July 20, 2016

    Here is the curriculum for Columbia University (“King’s College” at the time) in 1763. As you look through this list, keep in mind that the average age of the first-year student was fifteen! First Year Sallust, Historia Caesar, Commentaries Ovid, Metamorphoses Virgil, Eclogues Aesop, Fables Lucian, Dialogues ?New Testament Grotius, De Veritate Latin Grammar Greek Grammar English & Latin Themes Cornelius Nepos

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  • What Ivy League Professors Could Learn from George Washington

    What Ivy League Professors Could Learn from George Washington0

    Back in 2005, The Washington Post reported on a Gallup poll asking Americans which U.S. president was the greatest. At the time, men like Reagan, Clinton, and Lincoln led the pack. America’s first president, however, had only five percent support for top slot, leading the WaPo to quip that George Washington would “find it necessary

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  • What It Was Like Meeting My Country Neighbors—and Why You Should Meet Yours

    What It Was Like Meeting My Country Neighbors—and Why You Should Meet Yours6

    Recently, I was in search of trout, but my search resulted in more than just fish. I’ve been a fly fisherman for over a decade, but when I moved to Wisconsin a few years back, I lost easy access to my favorite haunts. So I was searching for a new stretch of untouched waters to

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