Archive - The Stoa Letter

How to Be Smarter (Episode 217)

Listen now | The Stoic virtue of intelligence

Jan 6 • Caleb

44:12

Why philosophy hurts

On going to the hospital of Epictetus

Jan 5 • Caleb

December 2025

What We Read, Watched, and Learned in 2025 (Episode 216)

Listen now | A reflection on another year of Stoa Conversations

Dec 30, 2025 • Caleb and Michael

42:43

One framework. Four questions. Five minutes.

Five minutes for a better year

Dec 29, 2025 • Caleb

A Stoic Book Review of the Odyssey (Episode 215)

Listen now | Time to go home

Dec 23, 2025 • Caleb and Michael

1:00:46

Why Stoicism is True

A defense of the Greco-Roman philosophy

Dec 22, 2025 • Caleb

Who Gets To Call Themselves Stoic (Episode 214)

A discussion on Stoic gatekeeping

Dec 16, 2025 • Caleb and Michael

49:06

The Stoic Step Back

A simple technique for self control

Dec 15, 2025 • Caleb

Stoicism is not just self-help for men

No, Stoicism is not just self-help for men, but it isn't hardcore cynicism either.

Dec 11, 2025 • Michael

Stoic Ideas That Cut Against Modern Culture (Episode 213)

Are these Stoic claims too extreme for you?

Dec 9, 2025 • Caleb and Michael

50:18

9 quotes from a renegade psychiatrist

Thomas Szasz on how to live.

Dec 8, 2025 • Caleb

One thing and only one, philosophy

Commentary on Meditations 2.17

Dec 5, 2025 • Caleb

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