Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits

Ozempicians Need Not Apply

GLP-1 isn't merely eliminating the compulsion to eat. It's eliminating all compulsions, including, some say, the compulsion to engage life.

Apr 8 • Eric Scheske

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March 2026

The Left Hemisphere has Ruined Our Soil

If your gut’s hurtin’ you, blame the Green Revolution.

Mar 30 • Eric Scheske

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The Clown is the Best Response to Our Overweening Rationalist Culture

In a world of clowns and bores, I’ll take the clowns.

Mar 23 • Eric Scheske

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Claude Gets Stuck in Corners and Bombs Girls

And we celebrate this crap?

Mar 16 • Eric Scheske

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February 2026

"Frank Rich and John Simon are the Syphilis and Gonorrhea of the Theater"

That’s a quote by the great David Mamet, back in the days when he was a “brain-dead liberal” (his words), in the late 1980s.

Feb 9 • Eric Scheske

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The Staff of Obedience Against the One-Eyed Monster

Abnormality pumped Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s nads.

Feb 2 • Eric Scheske

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January 2026

The Savonarola Option

Fighting for your soul in the digital age

Jan 26 • Eric Scheske

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The Left Hemisphere Makes Us Sleepwalk

Hallucinations are more plentiful than cocaine at a 1980s Malibu beachhouse party.

Jan 12 • Eric Scheske

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The Man with the Pubic Hair Jacket

So many rabbit holes, so many authorities telling us there are no rabbit holes.

Jan 5 • Eric Scheske

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December 2025

The Newest Mad Brewer Concoction That's Sweeping 35 States in the Nation at $200+ a Bottle

A Micro-Essay

Dec 26, 2025 • Eric Scheske

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My Contribution to the Genre of Addiction Literature

In the grand tradition of De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium-Eater

Dec 22, 2025 • Eric Scheske

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Rationalism, Irrationalism, the Occult, Science: Whatever It Takes in Silicon Valley These Days

It's time for the rest of us to summon the ghost of Rabelais

Dec 15, 2025 • Eric Scheske

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