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.

Holier than Them

Tuesday, October 4, 2016


The Heart of the Matter: Ideology

Tuesday, September 20, 2016


Failure by Design

Thursday, June 2, 2016


Remember the Boys

Saturday, May 21, 2016


Friendship from Above

Monday, March 14, 2016


There and Back Again

Saturday, March 5, 2016


How God Is Light

Thursday, February 11, 2016


The Necessary God

Wednesday, January 27, 2016


Lessons from the Tattooed Lady

Thursday, January 14, 2016


Sergeants and the Bread of Life

Wednesday, December 30, 2015


The Unreality Is Not New, Alas

Anthony Esolen

Sunday, November 15, 2015


The Synod: In Poetry and Prose

Thursday, October 29, 2015


The Invisible Child

Wednesday, September 30, 2015


Who Stands Up for These Marginalized?

Saturday, September 19, 2015


Destruction ‘ad Nihilem’

Tuesday, September 8, 2015


Our Lady of Reality

Thursday, August 27, 2015


I Have a Coat of Many Colors

Wednesday, July 8, 2015


Man, Not Numbers

Monday, June 22, 2015


Where are the Lions of Yesteryear?



Wednesday, June 3, 2015


Getting Away From It All

Wednesday, May 20, 2015


Fools or Liars?

Thursday, April 30, 2015


A Nation of Noise

Thursday, April 16, 2015


A Modern Translation

Thursday, March 26, 2015


Born That Way

Wednesday, March 4, 2015


Treasure in the Basement

Tuesday, February 10, 2015


Baritones Begone

Wednesday, January 28, 2015


Disowning the Father

Wednesday, January 14, 2015


A Sleeping Child

Tuesday, December 30, 2014


Liturgy: On Bended Knee

Tuesday, December 16, 2014


Liturgy of the Body

Thursday, December 4, 2014


Government in the Hospital Bed

Wednesday, November 12, 2014


Sanity in a Time of Madness

Wednesday, October 22, 2014


Strategy from the Abyss



Thursday, October 2, 2014


A Feast of Reality

Wednesday, September 17, 2014


Slow Down and Consider

Thursday, September 4, 2014


What’s the Aim?

Wednesday, August 20, 2014


Clever Barbarians?

Thursday, August 7, 2014


Where Have All the Angels Gone?

Wednesday, July 16, 2014


What World Will We Live In?

Thursday, June 26, 2014


A Clean Heart

Wednesday, June 11, 2014


Pride, and Praise-Desire

Wednesday, May 28, 2014


Stamp Your Feet!

Wednesday, May 14, 2014


Let Order Die

Wednesday, April 30, 2014


Everybody to Pope Paul: Drop Dead

Monday, April 7, 2014


A Time to Tear Down, a Time to Build

Wednesday, March 26, 2014


Blessed be the Peacemaker

Wednesday, February 26, 2014


Temptation Mysticism

Wednesday, February 12, 2014


Let’s Build a Bonfire

Wednesday, January 29, 2014


Wise, Like a Pigeon

Wednesday, January 15, 2014


For Mercy’s Sake!

Thursday, January 2, 2014