{"id":13093,"date":"2021-02-24T08:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2021-02-24T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:58:44","slug":"new-york-review-w-a-a-a-y-behind-the-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13093","title":{"rendered":"New York Review: W-a-a-a-y behind the curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Review of Books<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2021\/03\/11\/tune-out-lean-in-stoic-philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notices<\/a> [pay-walled] the revival of Stoicism.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">recent revival<\/span>  of Stoic philosophy has stayed surprisingly true to its ancient roots while gaining popularity among executives and tech-bros.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The founding editor of the <i>Review<\/i> died a couple of years ago, and the new owners\/editors are still struggling to get their footing.  I picked-up the trend almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3-years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If publishing trends can be trusted, a lot of people are looking toward Stoicism, a pre-Christian philosophical movement nearly wiped-out when the Roman church seized control of the western half of the Roman empire following Rome\u2019s collapse. Just this year has seen publication of Ward Farnsworth\u2019s The Practicing Stoic, Massimo Pigliucci\u201ds How to be a Stoic, and \u2014 get ready \u2014 even a book of daily devotionals by Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic.<\/p>\n<p>Stoicism, a philosophical movement born more than 2000-years ago and advanced by figures as different as a former slave, Epictetus, and an emperor, Marcus Aurelius, is \u2026 in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So &#8230; ho-hum.  I&#8217;m out of optimism for the <i>Review<\/i>; the new management just doesn&#8217;t have the depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Review of Books notices the revival of Stoicism. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13093\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13097,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions\/13097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}