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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Did They Cast Susan Sarandon?

> The evil which is abroad in Narnia when we first come into the land takes the form of a white witch. We learn from Mr. Beaver that she is of the race of Lilith, Adam's first wife, according to an old and persistent legend. Because of dissatisfaction

Something for Sunday Morning

> The Father of Mysticism, Gregory of Nyssa, illustrated the problem of weakness with a story about a trained monkey who danced for money. The monkey's owner put a mask on the monkey, so the spectators thought he was a boy dancing with remarkable agility and would throw

Is There Good Foreign Aid?

We believe in international charity. In America, our "poor" are rich, by comparison to third world countries, so we're more inclined to ship our donations across seas. Yet, we gotta wonder: Does our money do more harm than good? We've generally resisted foreign aid

Library of Modern Thinkers

We've started ISI Books' Bertrand de Jouvenel. It promises to be another great offering. We've read the other four books in the series (Ludwig von Mises, Wilhelm Roepke, Eric Voegelin, and Robert Nisbet) and have immensely enjoyed all of them. In a world strained for

King of the Dung Hill

> Over the last decade, [David Hans] Schmidt has emerged as one of the nation's leading purveyors of celebrity porn, the man who brokered the sale of Tonya Harding's wedding-night sex video; arranged for Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued Bill Clinton

The Married State

> Both the U.S. marriage and divorce rates are dropping while the number of unwed couples living together is rising, according to an annual study of marriage released Monday. > The numbers show a gradual trend in the United States toward the lifestyles in Scandinavia, particularly Sweden, where unmarried

Just the Beginning?

> About 30 children, some as young as 3 months old, were left without their parents after immigration agents raided a poultry plant and took the parents away to face possible deportation. > While some of the arrested workers were able to call and arrange care for their children, others

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The Weekend Eudemon

Blogging from the shores of Lake Huron, about 100 miles south of the Straits of Mackinac (pronounced, mak-in-awe, with accent on first syllable), near Alpena, Michigan. Eric is spending a week at his family's cottage. Known as “Sandcrest,” it has been in his family since the

Catholic Anarchism

We found this interesting. Dorothy Day on anarchist government: > The state is government by representation (when it is a democracy) but there is no reason why a Catholic must believe that people must be governed by representatives --the Catholic is free to believe one way or the other, as