Kudos to Ryan Holiday for Standing on Principle

Kudos to Ryan Holiday for standing up against book banning and for promoting the thoughtful examination of ideas.

Ryan Holiday, popularizer of Stoic philosophy and author of such books as The Daily Stoic and The Obstacle Is the Way, was invited to give a lecture at the U.S. Naval Academy in April. Then, one hour before the lecture, the academy canceled it.

The reason? Holiday had planned to criticize the Trump administration’s executive order banning all “DEI-relate…