Wessie du Toit: When a Society Decenters Leisure

On November 10th, Wessie du Toit, a South African-born British writer, joined Merion West‘s Erich Prince for a discussion prompted by Mr. du Toit’s essay “The Lost Art of Leisure,” which was originally published at the New Statesman under the headline “You should only work four hours a day” in May of this year. Mr. du Toit, who also maintains a Substack, writes at various publication in the United Kingdom, such as UnHerd and The Critic. In their discussion, Mr. du Toit and Mr. Prince examine the concept of leisure, its relative decline over the past century, and its proper relationship to work. They then turn to discussing other recent writings by Mr. du Toit, on art, architecture, and technocracy.