Eric Scheske

Hesychasm My latest at Medium: How I Moved Beyond Stoicism: The largely-forgotten literary tradition that takes Stoicism to the next level [https://medium.com/the-weekly-eudemon/how-i-moved-beyond-stoicism-41f824a0b548] . Excerpt: I've long been a fan of the Stoics. Epictetus especially, but Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and the works of Seneca have

Cronies and Wolves and Higher Education The current Econtalk episode is pretty good [https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-the-future-of-higher-education/]. They talk about the future of higher education, in light of the fact that it appears that colleges can, indeed, work online. At least, that's what they now claim, in

Twitter Kills Bee! Google Raises ACT Scores! Taibbi Raises Glass and Kills DNC! I woke up to news that Twitter had suspended the Babylon Bee. It was going to be the final straw for any hope that the Big Tech will play halfway fair in the coming months. The Babylon

Pepsi Riots, the Hot Hand, and 33 Pieces of Advice Another of my emerging favorites at Medium talks about the great Pepsi Filipino riots of the early 1990s [https://medium.com/better-marketing/pepsis-40-billion-typo-caused-deadly-riots-3d671295d1bd] . Unbelievable story. It's unbelievable because (i) it happened, and (ii) I'd never heard

> Objectively the best moment in Lewis' Space Trilogy is in the third book were the guy's PhD advisor is literally working for Satan. https://t.co/vbFVJJmckr > — The Distributist (@DataDistribute) August 13, 2020 [https://twitter.com/DataDistribute/status/1293933373883203584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Related: The

Click here [https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1292929165658914817] if you haven't followed Professor Robert George's ongoing account of anecdotal evidence that it is increasingly necessary for people to write, Tweet, and blog under an anonymous name. I guess it's only a matter of time

Kuehnelt-Leddin There are thinkers who are so far to the left or right, they fall off the spectrum altogether. On the left, I put thinkers like Ralph Nader and Ivan Illich. On the right, I put a thinker named Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddin [https://amzn.to/3kBkptK], a man described as

Manly Math This is pretty funny: "College math prof says 'the idea that math is in any way objective is a MYTH' that 'reeks of white supremacist patriarchy [https://disrn.com/news/not-the-bee-college-math-prof-says-idea-that-math-is-in-any-way-objective-is-a-myth-that-reeks-of-white-supremacist-patriarchy] .'" The article is catalogued under "Not the Bee," meaning,

Bowling to Sharks My apologies for missing the past couple of days. I intended to blog from Boston, but only put out the single piece from Wednesday. Sightseeing got out of hand: candlepin bowling [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepin_bowling]; Salem; evening boat tour; walking around downtown and in

Boston Massachusetts travel ban and Hurricane Isaias. Passed. I'm in Boston now, visiting my daughter. Okay, it's not Boston. It's Brookline. Technically, I suppose it's a suburb, but if you know Boston, such "suburbs" blend right into Boston proper. Think