Ryan Holiday’s “The Daily Stoic” – generally inspirational although too hard on Alexander the Great and too easy on Marcus Aurelius – says that December is the month of endings in which we must contemplate our own. Meanwhile, there have been a number of high profile endings of different sorts, so let’s delve into them, shall we?
Read MoreFormer Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse seen in his 2016 U.S. Senate portrait. He’s announced that at 53 he has terminal pancreatic cancer. Courtesy U.S. Senate.