It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Bio: Molly Worthen is a historian of American religion and a journalist. She is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, she graduated from Yale in 2003 and earned a Ph.D.