Eric Scheske

The material goods that are shoved down the soul's spiritual throat take different forms. In the totalitarian, it takes the form of raw power. Control. That's the substance that he crams into his heart and mind instead of power's opposite, love (the proper spiritual

J. Budziszewski writes about sex in the upcoming issue of Touchstone. Excerpt: > When I say we aren't designed for [casual sex], I'm also speaking of males. A woman may be more likely to cry the next morning; it's not so easy to sleep

Just a reminder: Eric is on assignment this week to recapture certain holy relics in Mogadishu, Somalia. Our Internet access will be sporadic and available in short spurts, so our output will be limited and the fare less plentiful and different. Regular blog programming will resume next week.

Orestes Brownson said, on a speaking tour on “The Church and the Republic,” that every society is exposed to two opposite dangers: absolutism of the state and absolutism of the individual. In order to mediate between the two dangers, and give each, the state and the individual, their due, there

The UK new hate law is making its way through the legislative channels, even as members of Parliament devastate its logic. Link [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1065-1668313,00.html]. Excerpt: > It was a fine debate, during which the Home Secretary was reduced to repeating bald

. . . resulting in crime? No, say it ain't so: > Federal prosecutors here have charged a retired Palm Springs, Calif., lawyer with taking kickbacks from a prominent New York law firm in exchange for serving as plaintiff in dozens of class-action and shareholder lawsuits that earned the firm

> Eating dark chocolate may have a protective effect on the cardiovascular system in healthy people, the results of a new study suggest. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2005-06-24T183417Z_01_B289314_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-CHOCOLATE-ARTERIES-DC.XML] .

> Milton Friedman is no dopehead. But that's his hallowed name atop the list of more than 500 economists who've signed an open letter asking our Drug War-addled politicians to stop the prohibition of marijuana and instead legalize it and tax it. > The petition

Mogadishu is a hot spot, but not of the wi-fi sort. Eric Scheske had to resort to the Mogadishu public library (who knew Carnegie's grants stretched so far?) to blog. He has only minutes until his pursuers discover where he has ducked, various recovered religious artifacts crammed

> Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as science "without any presuppositions" . . . a philosophy, a "faith," must always be there first, so that science can acquire from it a direction, a meaning, a limit, a method, a right to exist . . . It is still metaphysical faith