Eric Scheske

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Guy Rants

Bernard Chapin at Crux reviews Thomas Ellis' The Rantings of a Single Male: Losing Patience with Feminism, Political Correctness, and Basically Everything [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976261308/thedailyeudem-20]. Pretty good, hard-hitting stuff. Link [http://www.cruxmag.com/SingleMaleAlone.htm]. Excerpt: > [H]is title is oddly

Epstein on Hollywood

America's best essayist is Joseph Epstein. We have a collection of books by Epstein, most of which are collections of his essays. When we find an Epstein essay on-line, especially a new one, we're ecstatic, especially if it's in an area that interests us

Threefer

Perhaps it's shameful on our part, but we're going to (try to) start a blog meme, one of those chain-blog messages that bloggers pass among each other. It's simple: 1. Name your three biggest non-reference books (excluding the Bible and text books). 2. Name

Far Out

> Fittingly, it's been a long journey. After years of wandering, Beat writer Jack Kerouac's On the Road is finally jumping from the page to the screen. Francis Ford Coppola – whose American Zoetrope production company has owned the film rights to the classic road-trip novel since

Defending Kirk

American Spectator apparently ran an article critical of Russell Kirk's ghost stories (occasioned by the recently-issued Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080283938X/thedailyeudem-20]). We're a fan of Kirk's fiction, so were glad to see that

New Online Encyclopedia

James Randi has put his Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural online. Interesting stuff. Link [http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/].

On Used Books

The New York Times printed an interesting piece about the economics of used books. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/technology/28scene.html?ex=1280203200&en=33765024cbf62d4c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&NYT_REG_SUCKS] . According to the article, used books probably

CSL's Paganism

> C.S. Lewis's vision assumed “that pagan wisdom and mythology may furnish us with some very significant clues to things. Spenser, in his Christian epic on Charity, The Faerie Queen, takes us to such pagan haunts as the Cave of Morpheus and the Garden of Adonis. Milton

Library of Modern Thinkers

We've started ISI Books' Bertrand de Jouvenel. It promises to be another great offering. We've read the other four books in the series (Ludwig von Mises, Wilhelm Roepke, Eric Voegelin, and Robert Nisbet) and have immensely enjoyed all of them. In a world strained for

The Movie Has Its Work Cut Out for It

> The tales of Narnia open up to us a certain kind of world. It is a world which has been made--made by Someone, beautifully made. Its fabric is shot through with glory. There is no peak, no valley, no sea or forest, but bears the weight of this glory,