The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

By Eric Weiner.  Avid Reader Press, 2020, 330 pp.

As Eric Weiner observes in his introduction to The Socrates Express, "In the literary world, how-to books are an embarrassment, the successful but uncouth cousin.  Serious writers don't write how-to books, and serious readers don't read them.

How bold then to write a how-to book about that most serious subject, philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom.  A clash of high cultu...