Dare to succeed

A new book, “Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise” by Eckart Goebel, offers an historical and philosophical examination of this emotion and how the West has viewed it over the centuries.

Titian’s “The Death of Actaeon” and the capriciousness of fate

Great art, such as Titian’s The Death of Actaeon shows that disasters should not make us despair, but rather celebrate the preciousness of life while we have it.