What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, wherever you get your podcasts.

Ever wonder what happens when the world's smartest people get together to tackle the big stuff?

That's Aspen Ideas to Go, a podcast where fascinating minds dive deep into everything

from global politics to why we're happy. Picture this, CNN's Fareed Zakaria gets national security

veterans to spill on the New World Order. David Brooks breaks down how America can heal itself.

And wait till you hear what's coming, Brunay Brown and Kate Crawford on AI, Jason Reynolds on muscular

hope, plus theoretical physicist Brian Green will blow your mind with his take on free will.

Find Aspen Ideas to go wherever you get your podcasts, because the best conversations happen

when great minds meet.

You have power over your mind, but not outside events. That's what Marcus Aurelius and many other

ancient Stoics remind us. And it's a line that I come back to whenever the world presents us

with a story that tests how seriously we take our philosophy. Last week, there was such a day.

A major international prize was awarded for non-violent courage, and it presented a. This is Practical Stoicism,

the show that takes the ancient pursuit of virtue and

asks what it looks like in the world we actually live in right now. Stoicism, as the Greeks understood

it, is the pursuit of Eritay, the knowledge of how to live excellently. It's not a museum piece.

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