How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives

The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.

The sun makes days, seasons, and years, and the moon makes months, but people invented weeks. What makes a Tuesday a Tuesday, and why does it come, so remorselessly, every seven days? A week is mostly made up.