I DUNNO, MIDDLE SEAT IN BASIC ECONOMY MIGHT HAVE SENT HIM SLASHING AND STABBING: Marcus Aurelius in the Middle Seat: Air Travel as an Opportunity for Stoicism. “In the Dulles International Airport terminal, things fell apart. Customs took much longer than expected. Then my connecting flight to Charlotte, N.C., the last of the day, was canceled. Still on London time, I was tired, cranky and decidedly un-Stoic. I wasn’t coming home from a long military deployment. I’d never even had to put my back into what I do for a living. It was simply business travel and the inconvenience of an overnight delay. As tests for practicing Stoics go, this wasn’t a hard one.”