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Eric Scheske
Soho in the Eighties
I'm 5% of the way through this book and I'm not sure what I'm reading, but I'm pretty sure it's an abject waste of time and delightful. (Mini-essay)
Nothing Gets My Bile Going Like a College Graduation Ceremony
College administrators' pretentiousness-to-intelligence ratio is higher than pederasts' perversity-to-temperance ratio. It's bad enough that they both pollute the youth. At graduation ceremonies, they make us watch. (Screed)
An Anti-Abortion Drunk
Jeffrey Bernard (long-stumbling literary drunk, long-standing author of The Spectator's "Low Life" column, subject of the long-running play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell) dedicated a column to "the heroes of 1985." One of them, the "late lamented Michael Dempsey."
Last week a colleague
Resist Tech Zeus!
Technological Progress is the Zeus of our culture. One moment, William Blake was warning that Francis Bacon’s essays are for Satan’s kingdom. The next moment, your cell phone is buzzing against your genitals while you’re trying to get laid. (Essay)
Electric Vehicles Give Joy to the Left Hemisphere
(Essay)
The Superstition of Politicians
A progressive politician with a theory is like a peasant woman at her weekday Mass. Both are using tools to access grace. The difference is, the peasant woman isn’t superstitious. (Essay)
The Week in Review
I'm pleased that my alma mater won the NCAA basketball tournament, but I'm even more pleased that I didn't hear a single commentator use the phrase "score the ball" this year, as in, "He's a great player. He can
On the Genital Clamp
(Micro-Essay)
"You're Not Wrong Walter"
The importance of saints (Blog Post)