Eric Scheske

Halloween is tomorrow. Are you thinking about not handing out candy? If so, please consider this piece that I wrote in 2011. If you want to see the difference between adults and children, look no further than Halloween. For little kids, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year after

> Dominating the family jack-o-lantern competition w Long Island Cheese pumpkin pic.twitter.com/K2cclPBKQa [http://t.co/K2cclPBKQa] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) October 28, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/527237532279668737]

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

Joseph Epstein once wrote a great essay about being "out of it." It's basically about his tendency not to know what's going on in pop culture and how, even though he didn't intentionally set out to become ignorant of such things, he&

Miscellaneous Rambling So, has everyone noticed that I finally launched the TDE Twitter [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon] account full bore? I set it up a year ago but rarely used it. I decided to start using it once I learned how to embed Tweets and my son Jack showed me

> Must-read: NYT, Sunday edition, Ross Douthat: The Pope and the Precipice http://t.co/PzdBcCYIiP > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) October 26, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/526381021944496128]

> Three ideas from Epictetus, one of my favorite thinkers: http://t.co/NxSO8H3aAx pic.twitter.com/We919ni79c [http://t.co/We919ni79c] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) October 24, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/525769313332895745]

> > Meet the new serfs. http://t.co/9dULnWsGKS pic.twitter.com/Bl8n7FNBiS [http://t.co/Bl8n7FNBiS] > — National Review (@NRO) October 24, 2014 [https://twitter.com/NRO/status/525744277578850304]

H.I.F. Interesting I'm coming off the week from hell at the office, so other than checking out Twitter at odd moments of the day, I've done virtually no reading. Yesterday, while brain-dead surfing and unwinding at the end of the week, I ran

> The London Beer Flood and other strange ways to die - via @Telegraph [https://twitter.com/Telegraph] http://t.co/CxlSdrhS4U > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) October 23, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/525260137544441857]