Eric Scheske

H.I.F. I think most people would agree that men built this country, mostly through hard work and risk-taking, self-sacrifice and toughness. But as this article points out [http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2014/02/12/manhood-in-america-bit-by-bit-macho-stereotypes-lose-ground/] , the landscape of the traditional man is shifting radically. From metrosexuals to Brokeback Mountain.

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 file full

H.I.F. Quite a coincidence to see this the day after I posted about my unconventional investment approach: George Soros is betting on the stock market going down and is putting money into mining stocks [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-17/soros-put-hits-record-billionaires-downside-hedge-rises-154-q4-13-billion] . So an investment genius like George Soros

Ira Gershwin and his wife and another couple were about to go out to dinner at a fashionable Manhattan restaurant. Gershwin offered to call for a table. He returned to say none was available. “Let me try,” said the other man. He returned to announce that they indeed had a

A Random Passage Kentucky, Randolph said, with fine aristocratic distaste, was the “Australia of Virginia.” Bill Kauffman, Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism. (Randolph: John Randolph of Roanoke, the subject to Russell Kirk's first book.)

I found those quotes in Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History. Good stuff: > Many did tell of whippings, sadistic overseers, loved ones being sold away, and of wishing to be free. But we must come to terms with the fact that a majority of ex-slaves who offered an evaluation

H.I.F. A Lutheran allies with a Jewish atheist in support of slavery. And they're fighting against some Catholics. I'm siding with the Lutheran-atheist-slaveholder axis. Sure, the Catholics are exaggerating and are guilty of intellectual dishonesty (the axis doesn't support slavery), but even

BYCU "When George VI and the queen visited Christ Church on the 400th anniversary of its founding, Trevor-Roper, in a letter to his friend Solly Zuckerman, wrote: 'I signalized Their Majesties visit by extreme intoxication. My hand still trembles, my mind is cloudy, and I am crippled by