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Eric Scheske

Counter-Conduct and Flourishing are the Same Things Except They're Not

Modernity is left-hemispheric. It has led to a culture of left hemisphere presumptions, conditions, and conclusions. As a result, it has led to a population of people with atrophied right hemispheres. Each of us has an obligation to reinvigorate our right hemispheres. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it

Drinking with Children

The first Christmas card Tis the season . . . to get kids drunk. The very first Christmas card showed a young child drinking mulled wine. It was 1843, the year Dickens' Christmas Carol came out. One of the works of art proved very popular, selling out its first edition in six

Why We're Watching Zombie Movies

After I saw World War Z years ago, I wrote: What's with all the zombie flicks? I read E. Michael Jones' Monsters from the Id when it first came out over twenty years ago, and I've always thought its central message didn't get

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Reason 2: The Screw Top Wine Bottle is Ascendent I put wine corks in the same category as neckties: Fancy vestiges whose hassles outweigh their traditional charm. Is This the Best Time Ever to Be Drinking Wine? 4 Compelling ReasonsFrom fewer corked bottles to more-adventurous approaches to obscure grapes, recent

On words and the Word

Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule

Shelby Foote: The South’s Jewish Proust

Blake Smith at The Tablet

Voodoo and Zombies and the Absurdization of All Religions

Well, far out. Voodoo is back. Actually, it never left. Voodoo was originally a pagan African religion that got mixed with Catholicism in Haiti during Spanish and French colonial rule. Since then, it has always been a religious force on the island and in 2003, it became an officially-recognized Haitian

The Fateful Nineties

Christopher Caldwell at First Things

18 Things You Can Learn from A Monk of the Eastern Church

Mystical. Passionate. Spiritual. Cranky. Monastic. Urban. Greek Orthodox. Catholic. French. English. Anonymous. . . . . . Lev (Leo) Gillet. All of those words describe an unusual man who would become known to readers as “A Monk of the Eastern Church.” He was born in France in 1893. Shortly before World War I, he became

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Priming your mental pump for weekend conversation