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Eric Scheske

The Little Arts

Talk is Not Cheap Ludwig van Beethoven once explained to Johann Goethe that the artist is a great man deserves reverence. To illustrate his point, and to Goethe's flabbergasted astonishment, Beethoven crossed his arms and rudely walked through a group of gathered nobility. Beethoven's impolite walk

The Return Eudemon

North to Alaska I'm not a well-traveled man. I've never been to any continent besides North America, and when I turned 42, I hadn't even traveled to the western United States (a trip to Minneapolis for a Chesterton Conference and across the bridge

Something for Sunday Morning

"Worry, fear, and cowardice arise when prayer weakens." Francis Fernandez

BYCU: Essay Edition

The Joy of Drinking St. George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out of an English flagon. For though he fast readily In hair-shirt or in mail, It isn't safe to give him cakes Unless you

Essay

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Buffetting Life's Storms

The Hymns of Jimmy Buffett I started listening to Jimmy Buffett songs when I was in law school. Though I was ambitiously studying hard so I could find work with a powerful law firm, I was drawn to Buffett's music because it celebrates a radically carefree lifestyle. As

Mini-Book Reviews

Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some originals. Freaks in History The poor and freaks. They'll both always be with us. Barabbas was apparently a freak, as was Caligula. What Origen did to himself was kinda freaky, too, but out of respect, I

From the Notebooks

The Great Idiocy “'Please understand that we are keen to move toward a market economy,' a senior Soviet official whose responsibility had been to provide bread to the population of Saint Petersburg in its communist days told economist Paul Seabright, ' but we need to understand the fundamental

Something for Sunday Morning

"A temperate life is a life of mortification and joy. We shall often find opportunities to practice mortification in the little things that allow our reason to control our bodies and enable the soul to understand the things relating to God. Interior mortification guides our imagination and memory by

Brews You Can Use: FTN Edition

Drinking Sense Is that you vomiting in the corner from drinking too much? Did you bring your three pre-schoolers to the pub? Do you have a knack for playing completely inappropriate music (or no music at all) during a party? If so, you might lack drinking sense. “Drinking sense”