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Eric Scheske

A Tip to the Right Hemisphere

A Tip to the Right Hemisphere

I agree with Modern Drunkard Magazine's observation that, if you can't afford to tip the bartender, you can't afford to drink in a bar. Just buy a six-pack and stay home. Me? I prefer to stay home with the six-pack, but I love bars.

Why Are We So Metaphysically Beleaguered?

Why Are We So Metaphysically Beleaguered?

A review of Bradley Lowell Stone’s Robert Nisbet: Communitarian Traditionalist (ISI Books, 2000) Episode 262: The Quest for Community by Robert Nisbet | National ReviewJohn J. Miller is joined by Luke Sheahan of Duquesne University to discuss Robert Nisbet’s book, The Quest for Community.National Review G.K. Chesterton’

Night Train: An American Legend

Night Train: An American Legend

The tent city crisis continues. It was even the subject of a recent Econtalk episode, in which the guest explained that the tent cities result from fentanyl-laced meth, which makes users paranoid, so they want to be in an enclosed space (a tent), but when they’re not under the

George MacDonald: Grandfather of Middle Earth?

George MacDonald: Grandfather of Middle Earth?

Fantasy literature wasn't even "a thing" until George MacDonald came along. Timothy Larsen flushes it out. One of my favorite "browsing books" is C.S. Lewis' Anthology: 365 Readings of George MacDonald writings. I've also long believed that the fiction of

Something Tells Me I’d Really Enjoy the Private Letters of Two Men I Didn’t Even Know Existed

Something Tells Me I’d Really Enjoy the Private Letters of Two Men I Didn’t Even Know Existed

It helps to be aware of one’s ignorance. That’s one reason I like to read Joseph Epstein, who wrote a delightful essay for the current issue of the new Catholic journal, The Lamp that brought my level of awareness to the brim. The topic? The letters of George