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Eric Scheske

Day Drinking

This NYT piece had great potential, none of it actualized. It was just the same palaver: empty stomach increases effect of alcohol, the sun further dehydrates you, yada and yads. I think the cue ("Why do we like to drink in the afternoon?") could've led to

The Death of Literature?

If no one can focus long enough to read it, no one is going to pay for it. If no one pays for it, no one can write it. That, I believe, is the steady theme of this lovely literary essay that doesn't merely lament the state of

Everything Bad Is Good for You: A Review

This is a groundbreaking book by a clever man who goes too far. Steven Johnson is the cheerleading captain for new entertainment technology. A regular columnist about emerging technology and the bestselling author of Mind Wide Open and other books, Johnson has used his understanding of the mind and popular

Department of Civil Rights Investigating the Prancing Pony

Strange News from Bree October 18, 3018 BREE. Innkeeper Barliman Butterbur vigorously denies that he committed a civil rights infraction, but the Department of Justice isn't drinking his ale. “The record is clear,” says Mel Coors, lead prosecutor for the Civil Rights Division. “Mr. Butterbur committed a heinous

Thriving on the Fringe of Society

Carrie Blackmore Smith at Cincinnati Magazine

Primer: Understanding the Hemisphere Hypothesis

Many smart people think Iain McGilchrist has effected a Copernican revolution in metaphysics. I tend to agree. Here's a summary of the revolution.

Observing Limits to Re-enchant a Mute World: A Review of The Uncontrollability of the World

By Adam Smith at Front Porch Republic

Weekend Roundup

Catholic Universities Continue to Embrace Modern Gnosticism "Loyola is heretically unhinged," you say? What about Sister Jean!? Students protesting annual drag show at Catholic university threatened with violenceA group of students protesting an annual drag show at Loyola University Chicago said a group of counterprotesters destroyed their signs

BYCU: More Boycott, Gatorade Cocktails, and Celebrity Alcohol

Everything you need to regale your comrades at the bar tonight

Central Park: A Beautiful Travelogue

Samuel Johnson put London and life itself on the same platform, writing: When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. I often think the same thing can be said of New York City. It, at least, seems that way to me, a foreigner vis-a-vis NYC. Despite