On Thursday’s episode of The 11th Hour, MSNBC showed yet again the extent of their lack of self-awareness. Host Stephanie Ruhle used a discussion with author Ryan Holiday as an occasion to weaponize classical Stoic philosophy, and the memory of the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, for the purposes of the 21st-century left-wing media’s political hang-ups.
Ruhle began by introducing Holiday, whose book, ostensibly about the ancient Greco-Roman Stoic School of philosophy, was entitled Right Thing, Right Now- Good Values, Good Character, Good Deed. “Good God,” she fumed, “it doesn’t feel like people are prioritizing any of those things anymore. How do we get there?”
“Yeah,” Holiday began to lecture about how Stoicism was supposed to be acted upon:
[T]his idea of virtue in public life- that just because you can do something,…
