Eric Scheske

A new Michael Jackson album was released this week and it contains a track titled "Do You Know Where Your Children Are?" Even worse, the next song is called, "Can You Give Me Directions?"

From Pascal's Pensees: "Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same." Pascal is one of those thinkers I'd like to settle down with for an entire summer: a close reading of the Pensees,

A Chicago priest is offering a $5,000 reward to help stop gun violence. Meanwhile, people with guns just found out about a priest who has $5,000.

In his essay, “The Intimate Abstraction of Paul Valery,” Joseph Epstein writes that Valery spent his life in pursuit of one thing: to understand the functioning of the mind. In his effort, he sought supreme detachment, so he can sit back and contemplate what it is, exactly, that occurs in

During his trip to the White House yesterday, Uruguay's president said that more Americans should be bilingual. Then Joe Biden said, "Thanks, but I'm happily married."

A new study claims that 1 in 10 Americans no longer carry cash. They're called English majors.

Well, another round of cold is about to hit southern Michigan. I'll be hauling my tomato plants in and out of the house for the next five days, which really sucks (15 self-watering containers, five of them holding over ten gallons of dirt each) but everything looked

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

H.I.F. The humorous Taki Theodoracopulos offers a biographical snippet of Sam Goldwyn [http://takimag.com/article/take_the_sour_with_the_bitter_taki#axzz31Qbj6XTL], including these malapropisms: > When his wife suggested a friend should seek psychiatric help he interrupted with, “Anybody who goes to a psychiatrist should

Autobiographical Corner Blogging might be a little slow this week. If you hadn't discerned it yet, the TDE publication schedule has evolved to this: I use the weekend to put together a series of posts, one each Monday through Friday. I then "pepper" the week with