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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Scratching with Modernity

Scratching with Modernity

Why are some people such jerks? Or, to borrow from our British cousins, so disagreeable? I mean "disagreeable" in the most expansive way possible. I'm talking boors and bastards, cretins and creeps, every person labeled with a derogatory term derived from the nethers of the human

Get Ready to Re-Write History

Get Ready to Re-Write History

The Don is declassifying. The Elon is dismantling. The Establishment is defecating. Can America handle the truth? We think we’re going to learn who shot JFK, but we better be prepared to learn that Oswald shot from the jealous apex of an Oswald-JFK-Marilyn Monroe love triangle. And Marilyn was

Shellenberger on Carlson

Shellenberger on Carlson

You used to be able to draw a line across California. South of Santa Cruz, where those Lost Boys hung out, things started to stink of something right-wing. By the time you hit Orange County, you were in Oklahoma. San Francisco was Peter Coyote and sandal-wearing freaks. Los Angeles was

The Hemispheres in the Garden

The Hemispheres in the Garden

I lost a lot of money in the 2008-2009 crisis. I was doing alright but lawyers throughout Michigan were shuttering their practices. I knew it could become difficult to sustain my homemaker wife and seven young children. An acquaintance asked me if I’d ever tried square-foot gardening. I hadn’

The Five Parts of Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis

The Five Parts of Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis

Part I What is the Tao? The Tao, also called “the act of existence (actus essendi),” “the first principle of Zen,” and the region on the other side of Aldous Huxley’s doors of perception, is the nameless reality that is logically, conceptually, and in reality prior to everything else.

Why the Left Hemisphere is Ineluctably Drawn to Abstractions

Why the Left Hemisphere is Ineluctably Drawn to Abstractions

The left hemisphere’s primary goal is to allow its host to survive. Practical considerations drive the left hemisphere. You might think this means the left hemisphere isn’t much interested in abstractions or idealized notions. Such things, at first glance, aren’t practical. But the thing is, abstractions are

Introducing Blaise Pascal: The First Anti-Modern

Introducing Blaise Pascal: The First Anti-Modern

If we’re going to battle against modernity, we need to recognize our champions. Pascal might have been the first.

Something Tells Me I’d Really Enjoy the Private Letters of Two Men I Didn’t Even Know Existed

Something Tells Me I’d Really Enjoy the Private Letters of Two Men I Didn’t Even Know Existed

It helps to be aware of one’s ignorance. That’s one reason I like to read Joseph Epstein, who wrote a delightful essay for the current issue of the new Catholic journal, The Lamp that brought my level of awareness to the brim. The topic? The letters of George

At Substack: McGilchrist Explains Huxley

At Substack: McGilchrist Explains Huxley

If the left hemisphere's grip on people's minds can be loosened, McGilchrist says, their perceptions will change. They will see "into the depth of things . . . all at once [and] recognize them for what they are, no longer overlaid by our projections." When this happens,

Scrolling Blog: Late 2024 Entries

Scrolling Blog: Late 2024 Entries

The True Christmas Story that Never Gets Old And the vile reality that is the State that makes it compelling The Christmas Truce of World War INever forget the Christmas truce of World War I, when troops refused to be pawns of empire for one blessed day.Mises InstituteJohn V.