idleness

Virtues of Idleness

by Brian on 12-28-2008

in art,civics

I love this “essay on idling,” by Mark Kingwell, in this weekend’s Globe and Mail. For those who don’t know, Kingwell is Canada’s cool philosophy professor: media darling, sometime columnist (including a stint as the token progressive for the National Post), he writes for a popular audience on wide-ranging subjects (politics, happiness, architecture, booze), and is still [...]