Anthony Esolen

Professor Esolen teaches Renaissance English Literature and the Development of Western Civilization at Providence College. A senior editor for Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, he writes regularly for Touchstone, First Things, Catholic World Report, Magnificat, This Rock, and Latin Mass. His most recent books are The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery Press, 2008); Ironies of Faith (ISI Press, 2007); and Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Press, 2010). Professor Esolen is the translator of Dante.

Articles by Anthony Esolen

What Jesus Really Said About Sins of the Flesh May 13, 2013
Pope Leo’s Ideal Was Not State Control May 7, 2013
The Primitive Cruelty of Modern “Love” April 30, 2013
A Nation of Sludge April 24, 2013
Felix and Oscar: A Post-Modern Marriage April 2, 2013
Press Ignorance Points to Deeper Problems March 18, 2013
On State Culpability for Social Problems March 1, 2013
Leo’s Guilds a Far Cry from Today’s Unions February 22, 2013
On Unequal and Unjust Demands for Equality February 11, 2013
The Rich, Not States, are Called to Help Others February 6, 2013
Stupid Press, Stupid People: Non-Reporting the March for Life January 29, 2013
The Modern State Causes the Problems it Pretends to Fix January 22, 2013
Liberalism Brings Slavery When It Confuses License with Liberty January 16, 2013
Leo XIII Knew Socialism Would Fail Because it was Evil January 10, 2013
The State Exists to Serve, Not Usurp, the Family January 2, 2013
Leo XIII: “Without Faith, Liberty Degenerates into License” December 27, 2012
Healthy Societies Need Successful Marriages December 19, 2012
Another Ordinary Year in America December 17, 2012
Leo XIII: “Taxing the Rich Does Not Help the Poor” December 10, 2012
Leo XIII Decried the Pernicious Impact of Divorce December 3, 2012
Catholic Social Teaching: It’s Time to End the Misrepresentations November 26, 2012
Catholics, Awake! Marriage Doesn’t Just Happen! November 19, 2012
Rotten to the Core: Obama’s “First Time” Video and the Democratic Party October 29, 2012
The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims, Part Two October 23, 2012
The Sexual Revolution and its Victims October 8, 2012
Toleration and Reciprocity October 2, 2012
The Nation of Alcatraz September 18, 2012
Paint-by-Number Hymns September 13, 2012
What They Will Never Know September 11, 2012
Raising the Stakes August 15, 2012
Chastity and the Child August 7, 2012
Expertise and Ethics August 2, 2012
So Where’s the Social? – Recovering Words and Culture in the Unsociety July 26, 2012
Chastity: The Seventh Lively Virtue July 6, 2012
Spitting on the Crucifix June 25, 2012
Be Stone No More June 18, 2012
Temperance: The Sixth Lively Virtue June 12, 2012
Liberality: The Fifth Lively Virtue June 6, 2012
Zeal: The Fourth Lively Virtue May 22, 2012
Meekness: The Third Lively Virtue May 8, 2012
Solicitude: The Second Lively Virtue April 23, 2012
Humility: The First of the Lively Virtues April 17, 2012
Progressive Inhumanity, Part Three: Hatred of the Past March 29, 2012
Progressive Inhumanity, Part Two: The State against the Churches March 19, 2012
Progressive Inhumanity, Part One: The State against the Family March 13, 2012
The Strange Happenings at the Unreal Hotel March 2, 2012
Leviathan Groaning February 17, 2012
Gingrich’s Fourth Wife: America January 30, 2012
The Humility of Science, the Arrogance of Scientists January 26, 2012
What Makes Norman Rockwell Possible? January 13, 2012
Songs of the Saved and the Bland December 21, 2011
Bad Poetry, Bland Theology: Let’s Write a Hymn! December 20, 2011
The Scandal of What We Sing December 19, 2011
Two Steps Ahead of the Spirit September 27, 2011
Moral Capital July 14, 2011
No Family, No Society June 27, 2011
Absurd and Corrupt at Once May 26, 2011
The Joy of Recovery April 7, 2011
Benign Neglect or Calculated Malignity? March 17, 2011
What Rough Beast February 11, 2011

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