Anthony Esolen

“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…

     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…