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Eric Scheske

Our Modern Superpowers are the Worst

Welcome, Heroes, to the Training Grounds of our new lives. We have been bitten by the spider descendent of the Industrial and Digital Revolutions, and we have been given a host of new superpowers and they only come with a few drawbacks. You know how this goes: it seems every

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Goggles to Elvis. Everything Worth Reading for Your Weekly Bar Fare is Here

James Bond at 70

Titus Techera at Law & Liberty

Star Wars Movies Ranked

Disney is making a whole new Star Wars Trilogy. And that’s . . . just the worst news. As a lifelong Star Wars fan, this is like watching your grandma’s grave desecrated, then watching the same people do it again . . . and film themselves doing it. The first discretion: the newest trilogy.

Medieval Monasticism’s Timeless Lessons on Concentration

The modern world is steeped in distraction. Technological advancements in the age of information have provided an abundance of distractor stimuli and in parallel distorted the divisions between the offline and virtual world. The smartphone has facilitated cyberspace’s expansion into all realms we inhabit, diminishing boundaries and rendering us

Good Friday

The annual assortment of quotes

The Zen Koan

A koan is a ridiculous expression or dialogue designed to get the listener past the subject-object perspective.

The World Turned Upside Down: Tom Holland's "Dominion"

Matthew Rose at First Things

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How Long Until They Claim It was All a PR Stunt?

Irritable Mental Gestures, Reconsidered

James Patterson at Law & Liberty