Eric Scheske

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

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

My gosh, the Cialis commercials sound like the SNL Happy Fun Ball commercial parody.

I'm watching less professional football these days. I'm simply tired of the pink. I've always detested it, but now, after a few years, it has grown tiresome, too. When on the fence of whether to watch, I do something else. Give your feel-goodism

Sir Bob Geldof: 'All humans will die before 2030' Link [http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/342876/Sir-Bob-Geldof-All-humans-will-die-before-2030] .

A long-time TDE reader sent me this story about public urination in Put-in Bay [http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/4654636]. I told him it might prompt me to re-run my essay on public urination. He said he'd never seen it. I searched the Internet, and

From Reddit: "TIL that the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, famous for the construction and unveiling of the Eiffel Tower, had a "Negro Zoo" with 400 black people in cages as one of the attractions."

The Subtleties of Reading I'm pretty sure this is something I've always known, but only at a semi-conscious level: > W.H. Auden "suggested that the book one reads should somehow be at odds with the place in which it's read. . . [N]