Blending memoir with ancient and modern politics, Peter Stothard sheds a sideways light on Margaret Thatcher's "believing age" and answers questions about his own literary and political journey.

A collection of essays from the Roman Stoic philosopher, from consolations—works that offer comfort to someone who has suffered a personal loss—to pieces on how to achieve happiness or tranquility in the face of a difficult world.

With wisdom on how to live a life of integrity, self-management, and personal freedom, Epictetus draws on the well of stoicism to offer virtues and values that have proven influential throughout Western history.

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. Here, in response, Gary A. Remer argues that the Ciceronian tradition is based on practical or “rhetorical” politics, rather than on idealistic visions of a politics-that-never-was.