This anxious century has not given people much to feel optimistic about—yet most of us resist pessimism. Things must improve.

(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. One must imagine Sisyphus was up late putting his kid to bed and now the boulder thing again? Didn’t we just heave this ...

The proverbial journey of a thousand miles takes an enigmatic turn in the myth of Sisyphus — it begins with a single step, only to traverse a draining cyclic path lost in perpetuity. The ...

The podcast was discussing 20th-century French writer and philosopher Albert Camus, including his early essay titled “The Myth of Sisyphus.” We all know who Sisyphus is: the guy in Greek mythology who ...

If Sisyphus were Canadian, he would not be eternally damned to push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down before he can reach the top. That would be too easy.