Eric Scheske

The social critic Lewis Mumford found the space program “anti-human.” Space travel, he argued, requires “the total mobilization of the megamachine, commanding to the point of exhaustion all the resources of the state: it is both a symbol of total control and a means of popularizing it and extending

I always get a bit of blowback when I say I'm not voting in state and federal elections. Just so I'm clear on this: I have always voted. There is nary a vote--whether local, state, or federal--that I haven't voted in. I

Brews You Can Use I should've called this entry "Miscellaneous Rambling

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy February. It's normally a great feeling to get January under our belt, but this January was so mild, I don't feel a great sense of relief. My gardening thumb is itching, though. I have microgreens planted in the living room. I should get

A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale hits the Middle East. Two million Muslims die and over a million are injured. Iraq, Iran and Syria are totally ruined and the governments don't know where to start with providing help to rebuild. The

Would I vote for Trump in the Republican primary? Probably not, for the simple reason I don't plan on voting at all. But if I were to vote, I'd be tempted to vote for the Donald. Yes, I agree with everything Catholic Vote recently pointed out

You're looking at one of the neater Christmas presents I've ever received: Monkey 47 Gin. > An incredibly fun gin that serves the purpose of getting sozzled better than all others. Haling from the Black Forest in Germany, the name comes from the number of botanicals

I've read a fair amount writing by St. Thomas Aquinas, at least when compared to what I've read of other authors. When compared to how much he wrote, I've read only a little. I have, however, read a lot about Aquinas. I'm

Allegations of Orestes Brownson's inconsistencies in later years are often misplaced. Recent biographer R.A. Herrera, for instance, alleges that Brownson's view on the democratic revolution that was picking up speed in the mid-nineteenth century flip-flopped. Herrera criticizes Brownson for saying, in 1856, that