In honor of Labor Day, here is Josef Pieper on the foundational value of leisure:
Leisure is not justified in making the functionary [i.e., the worker or laborer] as 'trouble-free' in operation as possible, with minimum 'downtime,' but rather in keeping the functionary human ... and this means
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Over at the New York Review of Books' blog, the novelist Francine Prose has a post about the "nominations" process--the Orwellian name for the regular meetings at which President Obama decides which suspected terrorists to target for assassination. These meetings were the subject of a
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Michael Sandel's new book, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, has been getting a lot of attention lately, with excerpts appearing in both the Atlantic and the Boston Review. In his book, Sandel makes the convincing case that, as he puts it, "We live in a time when almost
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