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Eric Scheske

Google and the Hemispheres

Google and the Hemispheres

The Industrial Revolution had been churning for a hundred years. Results were impressive. Standards of living were climbing. Sure, urban slums were miserable, but many historians believe they beat the squalor in rural villages. But industrialization was messy and not just from a pollution standpoint. Labor itself was messy. There

The Minotaur: Five Short Lessons About the Modern State

The Minotaur: Five Short Lessons About the Modern State

Revisiting de Jouvenel's 1945 classic, On Power “the spirit of domination never slumbers” Bertrand de Jouvenel was born in 1903 to an aristocratic family that embraced the “progressive” mores of the day. His parents divorced. His father married the famous novelist Colette in 1912. In 1920, de Jouvenel

Playboy Taki, the Riviera, and an Elegant Culture of Excess

Playboy Taki, the Riviera, and an Elegant Culture of Excess

I have a romantic nostalgia for something I'm nearly clueless about I tend to loathe the rich, especially those who have money because of Hollywood or, worst of the worse, government. But there's something about the elegant rich I admire, almost in a nostalgic or romantic

The Cell Phone is a Monkey Trap for the Left Hemisphere

The Cell Phone is a Monkey Trap for the Left Hemisphere

Scrolling Blog: May 2024

Scrolling Blog: May 2024

May 31, 2024 BYCU A Newcomer in the Grape Industry It's Vermentino. It resists drought and is cheap and California growers are lovin' it. It currently costs $4,000 a ton (whereas Napa Cabernet costs over $8,000), but as more use it, the cost will go

The Left Hemisphere Thwarts Focus: On Art Appreciation

The Left Hemisphere Thwarts Focus: On Art Appreciation

Attention, attention, attention. Everyone is starved for it . . . their own, not others. People want to be able to focus again. Madison Avenue purposefully kills it: The legal scholar Tim Wu, in his book “The Attention Merchants,” notes, “Without express consent, most of us have passively opened ourselves up to the

Why June 1 is a Great Day to Honor the Copts

Why June 1 is a Great Day to Honor the Copts

A little Coptic history, a feast day to remember, and a great drink I concocted from my garden produce.

Twenty 20th-Century Books for Young Autodidacts

Twenty 20th-Century Books for Young Autodidacts

(Actually, there are 33, if you count the honorable mentions) Joseph Epstein is arguably the best essayist alive. He’s urbane, funny, self-deprecating. He’s a fine stylist, and he’s remarkably well-read. I remember William F. Buckley marveling at Epstein’s erudition and wondering how Epstein could have so