Eric Scheske

Frito-Lay just announced that they're coming out with new glow-in-the-dark Cheetos just in time for Halloween. Glow-in-the-dark Cheetos. People asked, “Are they safe to eat?” And Frito-Lay said, "Were they ever?

Nock Notions A few years back, Jonah Goldberg wrote a pretty good piece about Nock, but I think he missed the Nockian essence. "Nock's greatest mistake," wrote Goldberg, "lay in his fatalism . . . he in effect surrendered to the same consensus that [collectivism] was the '

"Syrian dictator Assad says he may run for re-election next year. In fact, today he went over the results of next year's election and he said it looks pretty good." "Circulation of newspapers has fallen to all-time lows. They say newspapers are becoming obsolete. I&

H.I.F. I've started "Twitter following" The Catholic Thinker [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic]. S/he puts out some great quotes, like this one: “If you live today, you breath in nihilism...it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the

"We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye." That's Santayana, in Character and Opinion in the United States, around 1920. Things, of course, haven't changed in this regard. Nock pointed out that Henry George was never refuted, just ignored. A

H.I.F. Ryan Basen takes apart the NFL pink annoyance [http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/62332742/]. He says it's what I suspected: just a marketing ploy cooked up between two organizations, except a few large corporations are involved, too. The kicker: some people think it does more

Russell Kirk's autobiography, The Sword of Imagination, is a splendid work. I read it carefully while preparing this piece [http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-05-041-f] ten years ago. For the past decade, the person of George Scott-Moncrieff has stuck in my mind, so much so

A new survey found that only 46 percent of Americans have actually read a book in the past year. Which gets even worse when you hear it was just the instruction manual for Grand Theft Auto 5.

Steyn on Detroit Mark Steyn wrote a great piece about Detroit last summer [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/353959/downfall-detroit-mark-steyn]. I can't believe I missed it. The entire thing is worth reading. Here are just a few of the better passages: "To any American time-transported from the