In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Author:Bertrand Russell In this collection of essays, with a new introduction by Howard Woodhouse, Russell scrutinizes many aspects of modern life--the latent anarchy of domestic life, the anti-social character of high finance and the folly of working too hard in the machine age. Among the political essays there are powerful demolitions of both Communism and Fascism, a... more »nd a convincing statement of the case for Socialism.« less