Anthony Esolen is a lecturer, translator, and writer. Among his books are Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture, and Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World, and most recently The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord. He is Distinguished Professor at Thales College. Be sure to visit his new website, Word and Song.

A Cure for Therapeutic ‘Cures’

Sunday, March 3, 2024


Africa’s Rational ‘Prejudice’

Wednesday, February 7, 2024


‘To Think with the Church’

Monday, January 8, 2024


Will the Church Teach It?

Saturday, December 23, 2023


A Course of Action

Saturday, December 2, 2023


A Parable for Our Time

Sunday, October 8, 2023


We No Longer Talk about Such Things

Monday, September 11, 2023


Let’s Build, But Expect No Help

Sunday, September 3, 2023


The Bondage of “Deciding for Yourself”

Wednesday, August 23, 2023


The Importance of Place

Saturday, August 5, 2023


How It All Smells

Saturday, July 15, 2023


The Glory of a Cosmic Fact

Friday, June 9, 2023


A Sister of Perpetual Indulgence

Saturday, June 3, 2023


A Church Deep in Love

Saturday, April 29, 2023


The Only Way to a Clean Heart

Saturday, March 11, 2023


Let’s Really Read the Signs of the Times

Sunday, February 5, 2023


The Trainwreck of White-Collar Sympathy

Saturday, November 26, 2022


Build Then, Always

Saturday, November 12, 2022


The Problem with ‘Recreational’ Sex

Saturday, November 5, 2022


Even Wearing Black the Church Shines

Sunday, September 11, 2022


Imagine . . . What We Already Are

Thursday, August 25, 2022


Latin and God’s Holy People

Thursday, August 4, 2022


Priests Are to Be Watchmen

Wednesday, July 20, 2022


A Lifeless Pontifical Academy

Saturday, July 2, 2022


The Vatican Confesses

Thursday, June 23, 2022


A False Rebuke from Dubuque

Saturday, June 4, 2022


Progressive Christianity: The Same Old Tides

Thursday, April 21, 2022


Our Disastrous Failure to Follow the Science

Thursday, March 31, 2022


Where the Light Doesn’t Shine

Saturday, February 26, 2022


Our Church and Our “Elites”

Saturday, January 22, 2022


Not the Pleasantly Social, but the Truth

Wednesday, December 1, 2021


Our Fear of the Real

Saturday, November 20, 2021


Our Cultural Confusions about Men and Women

Saturday, October 23, 2021


Motu Proprio Fatigue

Saturday, August 21, 2021


Freedom, on a Mountain

Tuesday, July 27, 2021


All Systems Go, Part Two

Sunday, July 11, 2021


All Systems Go

Wednesday, June 9, 2021


What the English Bishops Did for Pentecost

Thursday, May 27, 2021


All the World’s a Stage

Thursday, April 22, 2021


Once Upon a Time, in America

Saturday, April 10, 2021


Take Down the Flag

Wednesday, March 31, 2021


What Does a Real Hymn Look Like?

Sunday, February 21, 2021


Get with It, My Fellow Catholics

Sunday, February 14, 2021


The Young Poet and the Inauguration

Wednesday, January 27, 2021


Not Selves, but Faces 

Wednesday, January 6, 2021


A Man in Full

Saturday, December 12, 2020


Wise as Pigeons, Harmless as Snakes

Monday, November 16, 2020


Dogged – Catholic – Realism

Wednesday, October 28, 2020


The Three-Poisoned God of Our World

Thursday, September 24, 2020


Repairing the Foundations

Thursday, September 10, 2020