Tags
- work
- Monkey Business Animals have long been used for physical labor—but what does it mean to do a job, and not truly comprehend it?
- The World in Time: Engineering Victory Paul Kennedy talks with Lewis Lapham about his book, Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War.
- Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes 1844 / England
- Back Matter “The world is a great volume, and man the Index of that Book.”
- The Myth of the Fourth Estate We should think of reading the paper and watching the news as acts belonging to the world of ritual as much as the commerce of information.
- Living in the Margins In medieval marginalia, you might find complaining monks, a nun breastfeeding a monkey, and sexual wordplay. Oh, and doodles, lots of doodles.
- After the Revolution 1878 / London
- The Cheese That Stands Alone One of the world’s most famous cheeses was also one of its most reviled. The dramatic rise and fall of Limburger cheese.
- TGIF The calendar is an exotic blend of hours, days, and weeks that has been stretched out, compacted, and renamed to suit every culture it can. But that feeling one gets on a Friday is universal.
- The Mystique Of The Manual Myopic, awkward, and weak, Simone Weil was an unlikely factory worker, but her obsession with physical labor was an essential part of her philosophy.
- Our Dirty Jobs, Ourselves In an attempt to recruit more young people into vocational work, Mike Rowe, the host of “Dirty Jobs,” has lobbied Congress to support a national campaign for skilled labor.
- Pastoral Romance by Brent Cunningham
- The Servant Problem by Lewis H. Lapham
- A Talent for Sloth by Philip Connors
