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.

No Feasts without God

Thursday, August 27, 2020


Ideology Makes You Stupid

Saturday, August 8, 2020


This Means Everybody

Saturday, July 18, 2020


Style, man, style

Saturday, June 20, 2020


Not by Cardboard and Plywood Alone

Wednesday, April 29, 2020


The Vandals in the Choir Loft

Wednesday, March 18, 2020


A Flight into Reality

Saturday, February 1, 2020


Vandals, Leave the Hymns Alone

Monday, December 9, 2019


Clericalism and Its Remedies

Thursday, November 21, 2019


More NAB Nonsense

Thursday, October 24, 2019


The NAB: Round Three

Sunday, October 20, 2019


Blunting the Straightforward Tenets of the Faith

Sunday, October 6, 2019


Our “Sophisticated” Bible Translators

Wednesday, September 25, 2019


What Is a Liturgist?

Saturday, August 17, 2019


What Can Unite Us Catholics?

Sunday, July 21, 2019


Liberal, As It Was

Wednesday, July 3, 2019


Mater Decoris

Tuesday, June 4, 2019


No Fear Religion

Monday, May 6, 2019


The Lord Spoke to Paul – Not the Professor

Thursday, March 7, 2019


Recovering from Cultural Dementia

Saturday, February 23, 2019


The Radical Error of Our Time

Saturday, February 9, 2019


The Greater Sins in the Covington Incident

Saturday, January 26, 2019


Some Men Are Born Eunuchs . . .

Wednesday, December 19, 2018


Getting Our Creation Wrong

Saturday, December 8, 2018


Unplanned, the Fresh Air Comes

Saturday, November 24, 2018


Who Are the People?

Saturday, November 10, 2018


Of Dante and Our Current Crisis

Thursday, October 4, 2018


When the Priest Turns Atheist

Sunday, September 16, 2018


Jesus’ Wholly New Way of Life

Wednesday, September 5, 2018


Enough Already

Wednesday, August 8, 2018


In Plain Sight

Thursday, July 19, 2018


Vesting in Lavender

Thursday, July 5, 2018


The Liar’s Machine



Wednesday, May 30, 2018


No Way Out

Thursday, March 22, 2018


Belial’s Witnesses

Saturday, March 10, 2018


Profiles in Courage?

Wednesday, February 28, 2018


Modesty and Charity

Monday, January 15, 2018


Splinters and Beams 



Thursday, December 28, 2017


The Pleasures of Virtue

Thursday, October 5, 2017


The Four Corners of Life

Tuesday, August 22, 2017


Splinters, Beams, and Clear Sight



Thursday, August 3, 2017


Welcome to the Fun House



Thursday, June 8, 2017


A Center for Cultural Renewal



Wednesday, May 10, 2017


When Will They Ever Learn?

Thursday, March 30, 2017


What “Multi”? What “Culture”?



Thursday, March 16, 2017


Where is the Religious Instruction?

Monday, January 30, 2017


The Universities We Do and Do Not Need

Wednesday, January 4, 2017


Speak Truth to Power?

Thursday, December 29, 2016


The Church is not Putty in the Hands of “History”

Tuesday, November 29, 2016


Holier than Them

Tuesday, October 4, 2016