Anthony Esolen

     When I think of education in our time, and the reform called classical education, I try to imagine what someone…

Recently in my humanities class at Thales College, we read selections from Pascal’s Pensées, including that famous and mysterious assertion…

For two weeks, in my Humanities course at Thales College, we will be reading most of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,…

When I was a boy riding the bus to our diocesan high school, an older kid sometimes sat in the…

Last week, teaching, for Thales College, one of the sequences of classes in Western Civilization, I and four students, by…

     In my last article, I described what I called ignorance to the third degree: ignorance that is proud of itself,…

I recently had an altercation with a typical graduate of our American system of education. That is, I got into…

Over the years I’ve had many hard things to say about the ambience of wealth and ambition at Princeton University,…

In the last week or so, I’ve run into quite a few people who profess to be appalled by the…

The soul, the mind, and the hand; where is the education that nourishes them all, and in relation to one…