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Eric Scheske

Diabolical Ontological Monism

The best description I've found about the historical, practical, and logical hell that is ontological monism is provided by Warren Carroll, The Founding of Christendom (Christendom Press, 1985). In the first chapter, he writes about the Harappan civilization: its doctrine of reincarnation, cult of Thug stranglers, horned gods,

The Chicken Heart that Sucks Out Our Souls

Photo by Changbok Ko [https://unsplash.com/@kochangbok?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral]The great Stoic Epictetus pointed out that education is the means to freedom. Unfortunately, education today frequently becomes the means of slavery. Everyone

Dostoyevsky's Possessed in Modern Day America

"Peter Verkhovensky meet John Styn. John, Peter is the descendant of godless liberal enlightenment thinkers who now wants violence and revolution. Peter, John is the descendant of an ex-Baptist minister who likes to hug a lot." That's what went through my mind a few years ago

The Hemisphere Hypothesis Briefly Collection

Re: Evelyn Waugh

When someone called his attention to a typographical error in one of his books, he replied that one cannot get any decent proofreading now “that they no longer defrock priests for sodomy.”******* While serving in the British army in Yugoslavia during World War II, he spread the rumor that Marshal

Carting Away Hobbits

I've started to re-read The Lord of the Rings. While listening to Brad Birzer's three-part interview on the National Review “Great Books” podcast, I realized that I had forgotten a lot of things about the books. More troubling, I had forgotten a lot of the charming

The Real Transylvania

From the One Thing File “The One Thing File” is a practice I learned from Econtalk. It's the practice of writing just one thing (okay, maybe more than one) that I learn from a book, essay, documentary, podcast, whatever. For younger TDE readers, think of it as Reddit&

What the Frick, Amazon?

I just watched The Fight of Our Lives [https://amzn.to/3cQUVHq]. It's a thoughtful yet unequivocal attack on the far left ideas that every Democrat and Republic ought to resist. It explains the problem with postmodernism, Marxist infiltration of the universities, safe spaces and cancel culture, declining

Libertarian and Conservative to Cuff One Another on Live Video

Photo by Roland Samuel [https://unsplash.com/@rosam2020?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral]In this threatening age of The Great Reset and leftist rage at four years of Trump, the debate between conservatives and libertarians seems

Diagnosing James Martin Way Ahead of Time

Okay, I'm no seer, but I was pleased with myself when I found these notes from 2009 that I wrote after reading James Martin's My Life with the Saints: "I wasn't bowled over by the book, and Fr. Martin is, I fear, a