Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits

The Zizian Inside You

“We’re all just one hyperlink away from a new cult.” Adam Lehrer

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September 2025

The OG Reading App

"Truth outside the control of the powerful"

Sep 29 • 

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The Cobblestone Cure: Micro-Exertions

Smooth is the enemy of body, soul, and mind.

Sep 15 • 

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We All Need to Join the Reading Elite

Picture a man, tattered coat flapping, rummaging through a dumpster in an alley.

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

Beyond Literacy

We're reading more than ever but we're reading less than ever. What gives?

Aug 25 • 

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Artificial Intelligence Will Make Us Stupid Like Machinery Made Us Soft

We better start pushing back now

Aug 11 • 

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The Cocooned Mind

We’re all wrapped up in rationalist cocoons, spun not by our own hands but by the sticky threads of a world gone mad with reason.

Aug 4 • 

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July 2025

Third Way Mania: A Revolt Against the Binary Brain?

This modern world’s got a fever, and it ain’t for more cowbell.

Jul 28 • 

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"Join or Die": A Review

America’s crumbling civic soul gets a hard look in Join or Die, a documentary riffing on Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone (2000).

Jul 21 • 

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Five Reasons to Drink at the Bar

"The pub was the place where friendship was fostered over a shared drink and the shared cost of an evening conversation." Carl Trueman

Jul 7 • 

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June 2025

The Jolly Titan of Paradox: G.K. Chesterton’s Brain and the Modern Malaise

I ain’t got a shred of hard proof, but I’d wager that G.K.

Jun 30 • 

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The Art of Loafing

America’s gone and lost its knack for wasting time, and we’re paying a butcher’s bill for it.

Jun 26 • 

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