Eric Scheske

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Albert Nock

Albert Jay Nock, the Remnant, and Our Need to Read

Picture a man, tattered coat flapping, rummaging through a dumpster in an alley. You wince, don’t you? That flicker of disgust ripples through your gut. But hold on. Don’t judge him too harshly. He’s not much different from a stray dog, sniffing for scraps. That’s not

The Reading Paradox

The Reading Paradox

The Hemispheres Create Paradoxes. One is Brewing Right Now: We're Reading More Than Ever But Reading Reading Less Than Ever

More Snoring, Less Beltway Whoring

More Snoring, Less Beltway Whoring

The Hemisphere Hypothesis won’t teach you how to wrench a lug nut off a busted tire and it won’t tell you how to deal with the beard in your daughter’s locker room. For all its highfalutin talk about brain wiring and reality, it’s about as useful

Dorothy Parker's Brilliance and Other Sundries to Fascinate Your Friends at the Bar Tonight

Dorothy Parker's Brilliance and Other Sundries to Fascinate Your Friends at the Bar Tonight

The godfather of modern libertarianism, Albert Nock, was in his prime during Prohibition. Needless to say, he railed against it, noting once that it's absurd to regulate something that, in nature, flows as freely as water. He's right, of course. And the fact that it flows

How Not to Sacrifice if You're a Father

How Not to Sacrifice if You're a Father

Hint: Don't be Rousseau I’ve been reading some Nock. Albert Jay Nock, one of the premier American essayists of the early twentieth century and one of the founders of modern conservative/libertarian thought. A weighty man, that Nock. But also a disturbing man. In a 1964 biography,