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Eric Scheske

Thursday

Apologetics 101 from Orestes Although Brownson was a collaborator with the radical Fanny Wright (and her partner, socialist Robert Owen), and had veered strongly toward agnosticism himself, he quickly found their anti-religion stance intellectually-clumsy. The radicals taught that religion/superstition (the two are synonymous for radicals) was coeval and co-existent

Wednesday

Chesterton Short(s) The 18.5 (volume 18, fifth issue) of Gilbert [http://www.chesterton.org/membership/] arrived recently. It's pretty amazing that this little magazine keeps plugging along. When I was editing it, someone told me that the average life of such niche magazines is something like

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew, another long weekend out of the way; one step closer to death. Little league game Friday night, followed by graduation parties (straight from fields, change into decent clothes in the back of my van, to parties). Blessed hours of gardening Saturday morning, then slept off grogginess from

Sunday

Always dig Taki: "Truman Capote famously said that On The Road was typing, not writing, but old Jack Kerouac was Jane Austen compared to some of the novelists of today. Making it sound easy is the hardest thing in writing, and I grant you that today's modernists

Saturday

On Jenner You know how out of it I am? A little while ago (like in early 2014, maybe late 2013), I asked my wife a question about the Kardashians. I'd heard of the attention-mongering sisters and their hangers-on, and I knew one of them was good-looking, but

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The Flannery bit made it over to Catholic Lane, a fine online resource. Here's a courtesy link [http://www.catholiclane.com/flannerys-existentialist-stamp/].

Friday

An excerpt: “I don't disagree that alcohol ruins lives, but those lives would get ruined one way or the other. It's kinda like gun control. By restricting guns, you keep them out of law-abiding citizens' hands. The lawless will get their hands on them. Same

Thursday

In honor of the Flannery stamp, I dusted off an abandoned essay and resurrected this excerpt In one of his last works before his masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky wrote The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. In this story, the narrator goes to another solar system and lands on a

Meyers

In the world of soccer, after the arrest of numerous other officials, FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced his resignation this afternoon. Sepp Blatter doesn't sound like the name of a guy who's stepping down. It sounds like the reason. If elected, Lindsey Graham would be the

Conan

In a recent interview, the Pope revealed he doesn't use the Internet and he hasn't watched television since 1990. Then he announced his plan to make Bill Cosby a saint. The Grateful Dead are putting out an 80-disc live performance box set. No word yet on