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Ideas · Essay
…something larger than my own poor performance in a deckchair. Most of us, most of the time, treat leisure as a reward—a thing earned by work, measured against it, and justified by it. We say we have earned a drink, a…
Ideas · Essay
…other universal human activity, which tells you something about who has historically had the leisure to be a philosopher. But the ideas are there if you look, mostly at the edges. An old monastic rule, written for…
Culture · Museums
…they begin to look less like retail than like ritual. A museum visit is a peculiar kind of leisure: voluntary, mildly improving, and usually undertaken because it is raining or because the children need to be…