Author Ryan Holiday was going to give an address to the Naval Academy — until the military branch discovered he was going to reference the academy's recent sweeping book ban.
For years Holiday has been giving lectures on the virtues of Stoicism — he hosts a podcast called The Daily Stoic — and planned on speaking to the sophomores this week on the “theme of wisdom.” But the Navy canceled those plans an hour before he was set to speak, he said in a New York Times op-ed Saturday.
