Eric Scheske

Great piece The Imaginative Conservative about the recent reissuance of Russell Kirk's Eliot and His Age [http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/02/faith-of-men-of-letters.html] . This is one of the few books of Kirk's I haven't read. I was able to

Miscellaneous Rambling Great weekend. I attended a high school reunion Friday night. About fifteen years ago, I pushed hard to hold "all-class" reunions on the evening before the main reunion. The idea has taken off, so this year, it's the Class of 1985's

Kontent from the Kindle "The Weimar Republic, the near-republican Italian monarchy, the Spanish republic, the decolonized' free nations from Haiti to Tanzania, from North Vietnam to Indonesia, Latin America from Santo Domingo to Buenos Aires–all have been grievous disappointments to 'progressive' Americans, all terminating

Perhaps one of the most-interesting things on the web this morning: Does the US Need a Nationwide Exorcism? [http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/does-the-us-need-a-nationwide-exorcism/] It's from the National Catholic Register and it made it to the top of line of

BYCU Like last Friday, I present a nifty little thing that shouldn't even exist: The Field Guide to Drinking in America: A Traveler's Handbook to State Liquor Laws [http://overcupbooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-field-guide-to-drinking-in-america] . * * * * * * * I guess I need to get

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Miscellaneous Rambling Nice holiday weekend. Unfortunately, I did my celebrating Friday night, with the result that I wasn't terribly inclined to celebrate Saturday night, so I laid in bed and read while my town had fireworks going off all over the place. * * * * * * * Michigan has an insane law regarding

The persecution potential picks up steam: > Catholic School Teacher Fired for Same-Sex Marriage Files Federal Lawsuit http://t.co/0IIHWmVCLp > — Eric (@sturgiseric) July 3, 2015 [https://twitter.com/sturgiseric/status/616929377192816640] > From LA Times: Faithful churches and synagogues will lose their tax exemption in Hillary'

I made my first post to Reddit this morning. It's currently in the top spot in the "Catholicism" subreddit. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/] https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/3c3bof/i_cant_tell_whether_st_francis_is_blessing_this/?ref=share&ref_