We are used to thinking of idleness as a vice, something to be ashamed of. But when the British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote “In Praise of Idleness” in 1932, at the height of the Great ...

COMMENTARY: Bertrand Russell may have been a great philosopher, but he doesn’t seem to have been deeply reflective. Bertrand Russell poses for a portrait on Nov. 28, 1957. (photo: Anefo ...

Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born on 18 May 1872, at Ravenscroft (now Cleddon Hall) in Trellech, Monmouthshire. He was born into nobility; his paternal grandfather, John Russell, the first ...