Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling Econtalk has killed it again with another great podcast. Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of Nationalism [http://www.econtalk.org/yoram-hazony-on-the-virtue-of-nationalism/#delve-deeper] . The podcast brings it all to the table: echoes of Russell Kirk, explicit references to Edmund Burke, a healthy

Miscellaneous Rambling The whole priestly abuse thing, a summary to date [https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/benedict-vigan-francis-and-mccarrick-where-things-stand-on-nuncios-allegations-42199] . Handy reference. Pope Francis, meanwhile, has asked those who seek division to opt for "prayer and silence." [http://www.foxnews.

Boston Rambling We had a great whirlwind trip to Boston. Eldest daughter Abbie lives out there with her fiance. Aside: not with her fiance, dear reader, but with him like, "no other friends and family out there with them." She has her own place, about a mile from

Happy Labor Day. I just returned from a trip to Boston at 3:00 AM this morning. Just this for today.

New Podcast Episode: The Weekly Eudemon Labor Day Edition [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-weekly-eudemon].

BYCU Light blogging this holiday weekend, but you don't need any drinking material from me. Modern Drunkard Magazine has you covered: The Subtle Art of Beer Snobbery [https://drunkard.com/0105-beer-snobbery/?utm_content=buffer100a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=app.net&utm_campaign=

The utopian/progressivist is often willing to sacrifice his spirit for the purpose of bringing about social change. This is the type of man Voegelin was talking about when he said “human beings who engage in this enterprise move away from the life of the spirit.” It needs to be

And More Rambling Feast Day of the Beheading of John the Baptist. Probably the most gruesome Feast Day. Another great Tom Woods podcast, btw: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Erased by Library Association, Deserves Her Place in Literary History [https://tomwoods.com/ep-1221-laura-ingalls-wilder-erased-by-library-association-deserves-

More Miscellaneous Rambling Later Addendum: Ignore the Tom Woods Show reference below. If you haven't heard it, you MUST listen to Fr. Richard Altier's 8/19/2018 homily [https://straphaelcrystal.org/homily/august-19-2018/]. I'd seen and heard references to it, but hadn&

Miscellaneous Rambling Wow, whatta weekend. The most iconoclastic president and pope in modern history start to wobble. (Link to Pope Francis cover-up story, if you haven't seen it yet [http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/ex-nuncio-accuses-pope-francis-of-failing-to-act-on-mccarricks-abuse]