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Eric Scheske

A Few Interesting Red-Blue Facts (11/21/20)

> In 1992, only 38 percent of American voters lived in a “landslide county,” a county that one party wins by at least twenty points. In 2016, that number hit a record 60 percent. Religion increasingly divides us: States with the lowest church attendance vote Democratic; those with the highest,

Bill Eerdman, RIP (11/21/2020)

I just learned that Bill Eerdman, long-time president of Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishing Co. in Grand Rapids, passed away a few days ago. Mr. Eerdman was the son of the publishing company's founder. He took theology and publishing very seriously: Once, at the last minute, he

Do You Rely on Your Doctor? (11/21/2020)

There's an old saying: "The only thing more foolish than listening to your doctor is not listening to your doctor." Nassim Taleb says those things can be reconciled by taking responsibility for your own health while you're well and not listening to the doctor

Don't Believe the Google Antitrust Suit

I have little doubt the search engine behemoth deserves to go down, but this probably ain't what it seems "Random Books Under Glass," by E. Studs MulliganSo, Google gets sued for antitrust violations [https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/10/20/google-justice-department-antitrust-lawsuit-explained-trump-barr/5992896002/] . I'

Negativity Bias Identified Long Before It was Identified (11/18/2020)

The minds of men always dwell more on bad luck. They accept ordinary prosperity as a matter of course. Misfortunes arrest their attention and remain in their memory. William Graham Sumner, Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Just one of the hundreds

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Synopsis: 11/17/2020 Post

The Left, including Pope Francis, thinks savings and success are entirely or mostly the result of privilege and structural inequities, so it feels justified taking away the resulting wealth and giving it to those who weren't so privileged or to those on the wrong side of the inequities.

The Smithsonian's Assumptions of Whiteness

> In a weird revival of racist stereotypes, today's critical-race theorists see dysfunctional behaviors occasionally found among minority groups as being emblematic of those groups. In turn, traits that help people succeed–ones shared by cultures around the world–are stigmatized as typically “white.” Earlier this year, the

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Housekeeping Matters

If you're a regular reader of TDE, you'll notice that it has been undergoing a transformation. Part of the transformation entails longer, more thoughtful, posts. But don't worry. I know many readers like the short, bullet approach of the Miscellanenous pieces. Those are going