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Eric Scheske

The Left Hemisphere Thwarts Focus: On Art Appreciation

The Left Hemisphere Thwarts Focus: On Art Appreciation

Attention, attention, attention. Everyone is starved for it . . . their own, not others. People want to be able to focus again. Madison Avenue purposefully kills it: The legal scholar Tim Wu, in his book “The Attention Merchants,” notes, “Without express consent, most of us have passively opened ourselves up to the

Twenty 20th-Century Books for Young Autodidacts

Twenty 20th-Century Books for Young Autodidacts

(Actually, there are 33, if you count the honorable mentions) Joseph Epstein is arguably the best essayist alive. He’s urbane, funny, self-deprecating. He’s a fine stylist, and he’s remarkably well-read. I remember William F. Buckley marveling at Epstein’s erudition and wondering how Epstein could have so

NPR is in Fine Hands, Indeed

NPR is in Fine Hands, Indeed

Christopher Rufo at City Journal

The Defecated Rationality of the Left Hemisphere in Action. Right Before Our Eyes.

The Defecated Rationality of the Left Hemisphere in Action. Right Before Our Eyes.

The question: How can people who make the smallest carbon footprint be responsible for making the largest carbon footprint? The answer: They can't. Except in the mental world of our brain's left hemisphere. This is a real-life (real-time) example from Tanzania and the plight of the

The Beatniks Were a Bunch of Consumerists

The Beatniks Were a Bunch of Consumerists

Well, kinda William Burroughs liked opium, a lot. He liked its derivatives, morphine, and heroin. He liked other types of dope. He liked women. He liked men and boys. He wrote recklessly. He lived recklessly. He loved his common-law wife. He shot her dead in a drunken game of William