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Eric Scheske

On Deliberate Barbarism

We need myths. They're irrational signposts in our strange spiritual land: they guide us even when we don't know we're being guided. We don't even necessarily understand them, but only a shallow rationalism (a "defecated rationality" is how Russell Kirk

Monday

Bio Update A whirlwind two weeks. We took our annual vacation to Alpena, Michigan, then I came home to a packed office. Worked all day Saturday, then I went to church in a neighboring town that features the famous 4:30 PM "drive-through Mass": typical time, about

Conan

A man in Colorado wants marijuana to be classified as a vegetable. I just have to say that that's an ingenious way to get Americans to stop smoking pot. A scientist has figured out a way to turn coffee grounds into alcohol. He is not so much a

More Zmirak

Another nugget from the master. The italics are mine, meant to emphasize the sacramental mindset that is John Zmirak's. His sacramental landscape, along with erudition and fine prose, makes him required reading for any drinker who thinks a little alcohol can bring a lot of God: > [T]

PoS

Look Homewrad, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists by Bill Kauffman. If there's been a better book for promoting the Principle of Subsidiarity in the past twenty years, I don't know of it. I put Kauffman in the same league as John

GKC

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

Quote Day

Random Quotes "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it" George Orwell ******* "The radicals of one age are the reactionaries of the next." Will Durant ******* Evil is a hard concept for many on the left to accept

St. Alexander the Great

Would Christianity as a world religion exist without Alexander the Great? I wouldn't think so, but Greek culture and philosophy fit well with the Jewish God made manifest in Jesus Christ. After Pentecost, the disciples had a cultural world ready made, on the intellectual level, for their message,

Funny Leno

"More problems for America's creepiest mayor, San Diego's Bob Filner. An eighth woman has now come forward to say that she was sexually harassed by him. She said she would've come forward sooner but the line was too long."

Friday

It seems like the Catholic Church has a lot of patron saints of alcohol. Here's a partial list I assembled from random Internet surfing: St. Augustine (brewers), St. Arnold of Soissons (hop-pickers and Belgian brewers), St. Dorothea of Caesarea (brewers), St. Amand (brewers, bartenders, vine growers, and