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Eric Scheske

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"By the time I graduated from college, in 1983, the polemical message of [Friedan's] “The Feminine Mystique” had been firmly established as the new orthodoxy. Almost without exception, my female classmates either went off to graduate school or found themselves jobs. If any of us harbored a

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"I do not see what more can be desired than poverty linked with an active leisure." Albert Camus

On Mirth

When humor returns, sanity comes with it. Maybe the insane era of political correctness is nearing an end. Not only have comedians been poking fun at it for a few years, but even academicians are getting into the act. To wit, The Mirth of Nations by sociologist Christie Davies, who

The Paradox of Wealth

When is a person monetarily wealthy? The question is inherently relative. A person living in a housing project or in the poor hills of Appalachia is wealthy compared to the average person in many parts of Africa. A person considered rich in my small town of Sturgis, Michigan would probably

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"In order to arrive at having pleasure in everything, desire to have pleasure in nothing. In order to arrive at possessing everything, desire to possess nothing." John of the Cross

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"I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome." Flannery O'Connor

Devil's Feast

Excerpted from my article in the March/April 2001 issue of The Catholic Answer: The full terror of Jesus' death is well magnified by looking at it through the prism of diabolic vengeance: Jesus took Satan's beating. Jesus, Full Being incarnate and therefore Full Goodness incarnate, was

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“We cannot live without ascribing some meaning to our existence, or act without ascribing some goal to our activity; when philosophy no longer provides men with satisfactory answers to those questions, the only means they still have to escape skepticism and despair are moralism, or mysticism, or some combination of

After Forty Days

"Jesus brought Satan to a standstill. He alone was able to stare him down. To the extent that we succeed in looking with Christ's eyes, we too shall see him; to the extent that Christ's heart and spirit become alive in us, we shall dominate

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A woman wrote to me the other day in response to my article on the f-word. She wrote: "I think most of the seemingly perplexing uses of fuck can be explained in this way: Fuck is an intensifier. It delivers a thought in bold italics, or all caps,