Eric Scheske

From the Notebooks "The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use." Albert Jay Nock I've been devouring libertarian books for about five years now (and for thirty years before that,

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

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H.I.F. What religions co-exist peacefully in the modern world? Pretty much all of them . . . except one. Link [http://i.imgur.com/5tK3duy.png].

"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present." That's Ludwig Wittgenstein, talking like he could be ghostwriting for Jean-Pierre de Caussade. All that "present moment" business is terribly

TIL "health insurance" was actually cooked up as a ploy by hospitals to fill empty beds. The real impetus to making insurance commonplace is when they made premiums tax-free if paid by employers. Before insurance the average person spent $5 per year on medical care. Link [http:

Miscellaneous Rambling The Tiny House Movement [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_house_movement]. I'd heard of tiny houses, but I didn't realize they'd become a movement. Tom Woods interviewed one of the pioneers earlier this month [http://tomwoods.com/blog/whats-the-tiny-

Listverse posted this interesting article a few hours ago: 10 Soul-Destroying Visions Experienced By Real People [http://listverse.com/2014/08/10/10-soul-destroying-visions-experienced-by-real-people/] . I'm linking to it because I found it interesting, but I'm not vouching for its

A Random Passage “Modesty is praised in humans because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.” Lactantius

H.I.F. Readers have never seen many TDE posts about foreign policy, probably because my stance on foreign policy is pretty isolationist and doesn't rise much above the level of, "Let's leave people alone and mind our own business." There isn't