Eric Scheske

A Random Passage Worth pondering: "Henry Maine noted [that] the history of Western civilization and Western liberty has been the shift from status to contract–from being locked into positions based on who you were at birth, to being able to live, work, do what you wish, deal with

A Random Passage "The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.” H.L. Mencken. But of course. The cynic doesn't believe he has any business

Slight hangover after office party, but for some reason, this is keeping up my spirits:

I've gotten some email about yesterday's post. Let me clarify: Based on information from the MSM (which is scanty and undoubtedly incorrect and misleading), I have no sympathies for the position of the Ferguson protesters (to the extent they're protesting the Michael Brown shooting)

I tried Mike Duncan's new podcast, "Revolutions [http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/]," but I had a hard time "getting into" them. I think he was simply jamming too many facts and names into them, but he's doing a great job with the current

The dude was, what, selling loose cigarettes? For that, he was confronted by a team of cops, put in a chokehold, and killed even after pleading "I can't breathe"? I had little tolerance for the Michael Brown protesters, but my sympathies are with the black man

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 Another long Thanksgiving weekend goes in the record books. This one might go down as one of my heaviest-drinking campaigns. On Wednesday, I drank about a dozen vodka-tonics, though I never felt very drunk and I woke up with a short-lived hangover. A testament to

A Random Passage "Society desperately needs enclaves like monasteries and universities wherein men and women have . . . leisure. But we should never forget that the primary place of leisure and of the knowledge of the higher order of things begins and ends almost always in our homes." James Schall,