A Lesson from Marcus Aurelius

Obviously, there are reasons that we’re still talking about Marcus Aurelius 2000 years after his death–and here’s one of them.

He seems to have possessed an ability to think rationally and without prejudice.  He would have made a very bad acolyte of modern-day right-wing “news,” which depends so heavily on its viewers’ unflagging loyalty to certain tenets, e.g., that progressives are always bad or wrong.