A chronicler of addictions struggles to control himself.

There is a good case to be made that Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is the single most famous work of ...

De Bascher was the opposite, a dandy who enjoyed dissolute idleness with an elegant insouciance. His indolence and penchant ...

There’s now a real, organized effort to transform his resentments and impulses into policy. It’s called Project 2025.

That spending has done a lot of good over the years—and yet no one would say that America has won the War on Poverty. One ...

But “The Garfield Movie” strains to create a large-scale adventure around a character whose defining trait is his dedication ...

The capital is giddy about getting a new pair of zoo animals. It’s a love affair that reveals a bunch about the city.

The Federal Government has warned civil servants to improve on their level of productivity as the present administration would nolonger tolerate indolence. The permanent secretary of the ...

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You’ll no doubt have watched Emerald Fennell’s clash of the classes Saltburn. Silly, twisty and deadly serious at times; the film skewers the indolence of the English elite, it places a microscope on ...

But Carlyle’s essay, titled “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,” is an argument that poor black laborers in the West Indies suffer from “the vices of indolence and insolence.” For them to ...