Eric Scheske

Manent is great. A 2016 interview with him: > On the eve of the French election, it's worth asking again whether French culture has a future:https://t.co/IJeLU0kZDm > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) April 22, 2017 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/855843655520706560] "We invite catastrophe by

> The "white working class family is today more fragile than the black family was at the time" of the Moynihan Report https://t.co/xmwwjhG2kf > — W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) April 18, 2017 [https://twitter.com/WilcoxNMP/status/854152913907843072] > "The welfare state is not really

Brews You Can Use The warm weather, combined with kids sports tonight, drove me to the gin and tonic last night. I even made a return trip to the drinking club, so I could sit on its back deck and overlook the lake while discussing plans for the urban "

Bullets *The Aaron Hernandez story is sad. You expect more from a guy with such a great set of tattoos. *My son's track team won its last meet against a more "urban" team by one point. The other team's lead 200-meter runner, who was

As I've mentioned on previous occasions, Gilbert Meilaender wrote one of the finest books ever about C.S. Lewis. > C. S. Lewis is not generally known as a political thinker. But should he be? https://t.co/1vlzsNSgGC > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) April 18, 2017 [https://twitter.

Hey, I did my part: > Why are all the countries of Europe paying their people to have more babies? https://t.co/KbpgkbxdD6 > — David Scott (@DScottLA) April 17, 2017 [https://twitter.com/DScottLA/status/854065664260161536]

Miscellaneous Rambling Honest speculation: If it were a scientific and historical fact that, every couple hundred of years, a person is resurrected from the dead in the manner Christ was, would anyone at all doubt that Christ rose from the dead (given the historical record)? I realize that, even if

"[I]n the agony of Gethsemane the ultimate consequences of our sin had their hour. . . . God permitted his Son to taste the human agony of rejection and plunge towards the abyss. . . Gethsemane was the hour in which Jesus' human heart and mind experienced the ultimate odium of the

> We went into Libya for humanitarianism. Now there are open slave markets. https://t.co/jQaejHOyWv > — AmericanConservative (@amconmag) April 12, 2017 [https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/851963084360908800]

Miscellaneous Rambling I know it's not politically acceptable to reference Vox Day, but last weekend I listened to a podcast with him on the Tom Woods Show. I found him engaging, and I especially liked his description of Social Justice Warriors. He said that the best way to