Eric Scheske

In an interview last week, Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump's candidacy “an unfortunate development.” Incidentally, “an unfortunate development” is also what Trump says when his wives turn 40.

The Benedict Option [https://www.catholicvote.org/catholic-political-activism-and-the-benedict-option/#.VVfWFoMUwiM.twitter] . Or the Dominican Option [http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/10/the-dominican-option]? Withdrawal society or contrast society? Those might be the only questions on the societal level that an American Catholic needs to contemplate these days as the liberal experiment

Miscellaneous Rambling: Busyness and EMU Move-In Day Whew. Summer is over. The four weeks from mid-to-late August to Labor Day blew through like a whirlwind with eight different sets of house guests and four out-of-town commitments. Each individual commitment by itself is fine--the house guests are all good folk that

Happy Labor Day. Consistent with TDE tradition, light blogging today. Just this: > When is it not okay to answer your cellphone? http://t.co/lIJU5er5hw pic.twitter.com/rLSCchY0hx [http://t.co/rLSCchY0hx] > — Forbes (@Forbes) August 29, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/637772219238715392] I find it disturbing

Philosophy teaches us how we ought to live. And with a little effort, it brings us more money, too. The Earning Power of Philosophy Majors [http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/philosophy-majors-out-earn-other-humanities/403555/] .

This is a remarkable story [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3222526/Streams-whiskey-Lightning-destroys-Jim-Beam-factory-Kentucky-releasing-800-000-gallons-bourbon-lake-catches-fire-struck-Firenado.html] . First, it's a river of fire made from bourbon. Even more amazing, the writer uses the word inflammable, which is the correct version of flammable, which, according to E.B. White, should only be

Brownson had insight at the very first stages of the feminist movement. Although he was initially favorable to the incipient feminist movement and was attracted to its earliest proponent, the pretty and sex-loving Fanny (Frances) Wright, he quickly saw that feminism wasn't just about equal rights, but also

After recounting all those Jewish jokes and the history of Jewish humor in the United States, Epstein offers this, I think, poignant observation: "[A' epigraph from the English comic novelist Howard Jacobson: 'This is not the place to examine why I, a Jew, feel more threatened by

Miscellaneous Rambling I have more to ramble about and yesterday's blog post was growing too long, so it has spilled over to Tuesday. * * * * * * * The talk yesterday about seers and mystics reminded me a book I read about ten years ago: The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan. I really