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Eric Scheske

Marxism and Other Fairy Tales

Like W.C. Fields Criticizing a Drunk Wow, the great Russian bear roars at the United States, but not for its capitalism: for its Marxism [http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0]. > It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American

Up and FTN

Get Up and Go I received an email, saying that Nick Milne (blogger at The Daily Kraken [http://nickmilne.wordpress.com/] and one of the brightest lights of young Catholicism north of the St. Lawrence) greatly enjoyed Up [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810014785/info]. My family had our first

The New Freak Show?

Bulk Up for that SAT, Bobby Yesterday, I wrote (a too lengthy post) about Sam Anderson's "The Benefits of Distraction." This was one of the more interesting passages from the article [http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/index4.html], but I couldn't fit it

ADD, Buddhist Monks, and Misleading Titles

“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.” Simone Weil A Distracted World The May 25th issue of New York Magazine featured this cover story by Sam Anderson: The Attention Crisis--And Why Distraction May Actually Be Good For You

Something for Sunday Morning

"If we are not to be scorched and made unfruitful, we need the dew of God. Since we have our accuser, we need an Advocate as well." St. Irenaeus

Brews You Can Use

The Modern Drunkard I was having a heck of a time finding bloggable drinking material last night. And then I stumbled across an old friend: Modern Drunkard Magazine [http://moderndrunkardmagazine.com/]. Its editor, Frank Kelly Rich, would appear to be a genuine drunk [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002138215_

Pirate Day

Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life For Me One of the best podcasts comes from George Mason University's economics department: EconTalk. It's perfectly pitched at my level of economics learning, not too basic, not too advanced. I get excited every time a new podcast comes

Mini-Book Reviews

Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some originals. It's a Random World I bought this book after hearing Taleb interviewed on EconTalk [http://www.econtalk.org/]. The host (Russ Roberts) asked Taleb about the economic meltdown (rough quote), "So, you were right

Religion and More Religion

Neo-Emerson Revival? Very interesting review essay at The New Statesman about religion and modernity [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/religion-american-modern-world]. The premise: Religion and modernity co-exist just fine. Voltaire and the Enlightenment and its progeny have always been wrong about modernity and religion:

Memorial Day Eudemon

Stay Out of the Museum Night in the Museum 2 finished first in the box office: "Ben Stiller beat Christian Bale in the North American weekend box office duel between their respective "Night at the Museum" and "Terminator" sequels, according to studio estimates issued on