Anthony Esolen

Imagine that you are a lover of folk music and your friend prefers the music of the big bands. Imagine…

The news is that Goldsmiths College, a subsidiary of the University of London, has cut its Queer Studies Program. The…

“Be careful what you pray for,” the old saying goes, “because you may get it.” In Oklahoma, every school district…

A fellow professor and Roman Catholic asked me recently whether I could direct him toward any books that would help…

“I have a theory, and the theory is mine,” says the pompous twit on the old Monty Python show, “which…

     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…