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Anthony Esolen
Anthony Esolen is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Thales College (Wake Forest, North Carolina). He is the author or translator of more than 30 books on literature, culture, education, and the Christian faith, including a three-volume translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (Random House), Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Press), and, most recently, No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends Upon the Strength of Men (Regnery). He and his wife Debra produce the web magazine Word and Song, on language, poetry, classic films, hymns, and great popular music.
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Sometimes, after reading that hash of mendacity and advocacy called the news, spattered with the opinions of people who cannot…
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Anthony Esolen | Feb 27, 2026
I have recently seen a study showing how badly English literature has fallen from its old, prominent place in the…
On a social media site the other day, someone posted a single sentence to the effect that he’d tried once…
Ken Burns has come in for some deserved criticism for pushing the line, in his new documentary on the American…
I have just finished re-reading Irving Stone’s historical novel, The Agony and the Ecstasy, on the life and times of…
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Anthony Esolen | Oct 25, 2025
The other day, someone asked me why I thought the great epic by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, no longer seems…