Eric Scheske

I read lots of books. I begin many more. Appears I'm not alone. The brilliant essayist and voracious reader Joseph Epstein once wrote about a book he bought: "It begins brilliantly. Another bookmark in yet another book; another book atop yet another pile of books–one of

"The characteristic of lost souls is their rejection of everything that is not simply themselves." C.S. Lewis

"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention." Simone Weil

"Is this America or Nazi Germany?" the man exclaimed. "You're hardly showing proper respect to the Director of the Poultry Protection Agency, sir," the muscular young man in a wife-beater said menacingly, his fists clinched. "I'm only saying that I

Power mowers, power blowers, power edgers. Chain saws and weed whippers. Pervasive, pushing, penetrating noise. "Silence is not just the absence of noise any more than peace is the absence of war. It is rather a positive and difficult accomplishment, a state of justice in the soul in which

"Many of us feel remorse for our sins, yet we gladly accept their causes." "Blessed is the monk who looks with great joy on everyone's salvation and progress as if they were his own." Mark the Ascetic "There is scarcely any other virtue

Miscellaneous snippets about one of the greatest literary post men of the twentieth century In those early years of the twentieth century, a quick-moving age that was experiencing the fruits of industrialization and new trends, he pushed for tradition. He argued for the need to preserve the family and

"A great division among the American people has begun--gradually, slowly--to take shape: not between Republicans and Democrats, and not between 'conservatives' and 'liberals,' but between people who are still unthinking believers in technology and in economic determinism and people who are not."

Dogma Man A few years ago, I was talking with an acquaintance about George Roche's resignation as president of Hillsdale College in light of allegations that he'd been engaged in an affair with his daughter-in-law. My acquaintance was outraged by the idea that Hillsdale

Good Christians are many, if it weren't for all those maddening people: the whiners, the manipulators, the crooks, the liars, the heretics, the greedy. But Christ put up with all of them and remained sinless. The Bible recounts disciple buffoonery and selfishness, yet Christ communed with them, loved