Six Maniacal Observations from G.K. Chesterton
They'll help make sure you don't think like a maniac
Eric Scheske
Scrolling Blog: June-July 2024
July 12, 2024
People who still believe that the news media tell them the truth and that their nation and their world work pretty much the way they were taught in school are just as brainwashed and deluded as any QAnon cultist. Caitlin Johnson
Caitlin Johnstone on SubstackPeople who still
Deadpool Doesn't Matter
Endgame ended me. After that, I pledged never to watch another Marvel superhero film.
And it wasn't because I barely survived the CGI waterboarding.
And it wasn't because Brie Larson, adorable in 21 Jump Street, was insufferable as Captain Marvel, giving us the biggest fall in
How Many Beers Does It Take to Find the Tao?
C.S. Lewis would’ve said “zero.” It’s the Tao that helps you find the beer.
It is Nature, it is the Way, the Road. It is the Way in which the universe goes on, the Way in which things everlastingly emerge, stilly and tranquilly, into space and time.
The Left Hemisphere Deranges People Out of the Local, Driving Them Through Rationalism into the Clutches of Ideology, including Nationalism
The community is embodied existence: you rub against the white trash and the petty; you rub against flawed humans like yourself. You have to deal with it . . . in reality, not in a rational idea. When you escape it through abstraction, you become the anti-Mother Teresa
The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature
D.H. Lawrence might have had the John Thomas of a degenerate, but he had the soul of an artist. I guess it’s no surprise. His father was an illiterate, hard-drinking coal miner. His mother was educated and refined. It made him earthy but reflective. He appreciated cutting-edge ideas
History of Western Civilization in Just Five Minutes
My first Substack project. It might take ten minutes, btw.
Preparing for Catholicism's Preeminent Role in the West after Democracy Collapses?
Kevin Vallier's analysis of Patrick Deneen's newfound Statism in this podcast episode is really interesting.
Deneen wrote Why Liberalism Failed. It got a lot of press, especially after Obama included it on his 2018 reading list. Obama liked his insights but disagreed with Deneen's
Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres
My first attempt to flush out the phenom that is Thomas Sowell
Loper Bright: Relentless War Against the Left Hemisphere
Chevron is Dead: Audio0:00/429.2702041×💡Chevron deferred to rules and experts, two things cherished by the left hemisphere. The death of Chevron is a victory for the right hemisphere.
Chevron is dead. Thank goodness. It might have been the biggest Supreme Court victory for the right hemisphere ever.