Anthony Esolen

By Anthony Esolen

Anthony Esolen, a contributing editor at Crisis, is a professor and writer-in-residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts. He is the author, most recently, of Sex and the Unreal City (Ignatius Press, 2020).

‘Platonic Parenting’ and the War on Love
November 4, 2020
Thank You, Mr. President
October 14, 2020
Persecution? Bring It On
October 8, 2020
The Poorest of the Poor
September 4, 2020
Security and the Sneak
September 2, 2020
On Speaking Ill
July 28, 2020
Why Do Young People Leave the Faith?
July 23, 2020
We Need More Patriarchy, Not Less
July 15, 2020
Cleaving the Body
July 6, 2020
How Might We Heal Our Nation?
June 16, 2020
‘Here Let Dead Poetry Rise to Life Again!’
May 14, 2020
Hatred Comes First
May 4, 2020
Waiting for the New Jerusalem
April 27, 2020
Male and Female He Created Them. And for a Good Reason
March 19, 2020
Why Boys Are Failing
February 24, 2020
Babylon Is Falling
February 12, 2020
Surviving Sodom
February 4, 2020
What We’ve Lost in Translation
December 11, 2019
Libido Diminuendi and the City of Man
November 21, 2019
Fr. Martin Among the Libertines
October 30, 2019
Who is My Enemy?
September 10, 2019
Rumblings before the eruption
August 26, 2019
Bearing with Infirmities
August 5, 2019
Reclaiming the Forgotten Wisdom of a Bygone Era
July 8, 2019
Treat the Marriage Vow with the Solemnity It Deserves
June 19, 2019
Bishop Tobin Attacked for Speaking a Plain Truth
June 4, 2019
Care for the Common Good Requires Sexual Morality
May 8, 2019
Mayor Buttigieg’s God of Feelings
April 24, 2019
In Academia as in Government, Personnel Is Policy
April 8, 2019
The Bad Poetry of Modern Hymnody
March 21, 2019
Spiritual Egalitarianism Is Deadly
February 26, 2019
The Lazy and Hateful Gray Lady Targets Christian Schools
January 31, 2019
Who Would Have Known…?
January 15, 2019
Poetic Traditional Hymns Put Alternatives to Shame
December 18, 2018
Why Traditional Hymns are Superior to Modern Ones
December 11, 2018
50 Years of Effete and Infertile Liturgical Culture Is Enough
November 26, 2018
Watchdogs and Wolves
November 19, 2018
Hating Sin
November 14, 2018
Life Lessons Learned from Hollywood’s Golden Age
October 30, 2018
Contemporary Life Is Not Just Unreal—It’s Irreal
October 18, 2018
Triumph of the Will in Chicago
September 27, 2018
Beware the Allure of the Inner Ring
September 21, 2018
Genuine Faith Requires More than Niceness
September 11, 2018
What the Priest Scandal Is – and Is Not – About
September 3, 2018
Who Profits?
August 9, 2018
What About the Rest of It?
August 1, 2018
Novus Quodlibet: The New Whatever Liturgy
July 16, 2018
How Is a Man Not Like a Computer?
June 28, 2018
Threats of Murder Go Unpunished at Providence College
May 28, 2018
Mob Justice at Providence College
May 23, 2018
Close at the Ear of Eve
April 24, 2018
Secular Superficiality Versus the Rootedness of Culture
April 18, 2018
The Last Defender of Reason and the Human Body
April 11, 2018
Why Private Sexual Vice is a Public Concern
April 6, 2018
Providence College Bullies Its Faithful Students
March 19, 2018
A World Without Hope
March 14, 2018
The Faithlessness of Public Education
March 1, 2018
Church Critics Have Long Abandoned the Real World
January 30, 2018
Why Church Teachings on Chastity are Undeniably True
January 12, 2018
A Response to Enemies of the Faith
December 12, 2017
True Diversity Found in the Unity of Christ
November 27, 2017
Statistics We Refuse to Collect
November 7, 2017
Talk to Your Father
October 25, 2017
Open Your Eyes Father Martin
October 11, 2017
It’s Four O’Clock in America
September 5, 2017
Committees, World Without End
August 16, 2017
The Church of Intersectionality Offers Nothing for Sinful Man
August 3, 2017
Is Traditional Courtship Really “Unrealistic” Today?
July 27, 2017
Another Foolish Idea We Should Challenge
May 31, 2017
Don’t Let a Foolish Idea Go Unchallenged
May 23, 2017
Why I Left Providence College
May 4, 2017
Diversity is Not a Cult—But What is It?
April 7, 2017
Higher Education in Hell
January 25, 2017
Our Allies in the War to Come
January 13, 2017
God is Not the Author of Confusion
December 21, 2016
On Man’s Proper Disposition Toward God During Mass
December 13, 2016
Ideology is the Enemy of True Faith
November 9, 2016
What Will You Do When the Persecution Comes?
October 20, 2016
My College Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult
September 26, 2016
Totalitarians of the World, Unite!
September 20, 2016
The New Ignorance Far Worse than the Old
September 1, 2016
The Uses of Disgust   
July 7, 2016
The Future Church That Never Was
May 17, 2016
Buying the Right Toys from Faiths R Us
May 13, 2016
“The Boss” Praised by Men Who Think They Are Women
April 14, 2016
The Narcissism of Campus Diversity Activists
February 24, 2016
What Would Our Ancestors Think of Us?
February 16, 2016
Brave New World: The Future Is Now
January 8, 2016
Stifling Democratic Debate over Same-Sex “Marriage”
December 29, 2015
The Contemporary Denial of Reality
December 15, 2015
A Parish School Turns Failure into Success
November 18, 2015
Master, Peer, Ward, Puppet
October 6, 2015
Owing Our Souls to the New Company Store
September 3, 2015
Unreal Nation
August 19, 2015
Reform and Renewal Starts with Us
July 21, 2015
Welcome to Reality
July 13, 2015
On Justice Kennedy’s Tenuous Grasp of Human Dignity
July 2, 2015
How to Identify a Healthy Culture
June 1, 2015
An Alternative to Catholic Sexual Ethics?
May 7, 2015
Democracy is Dead
April 9, 2015

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