“For the mob is a congregation of compulsions. It does not matter who or what squats upon the altar: Robespierre, Beelzebub, Mussolini, Belial, any political or social savior with the sibilant speech and the slick tongue, hissing out every other… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“Romano Guardini, surveying the moral and intellectual ruin that was Europe after the Second World War, wrote that we had entered the era of… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“If you knew there was a beach where you could pick up gold nuggets like pebble stones, would you not go there? Go there.” — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“But it is often easier to compel a hundred people to do what you could never compel one person to do. The lone man… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“the judge Don Achille speaks up, with sly and devastating irony, saying that the whole history of mankind is the history of rhetoric: that… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“The computer on the desk of the student in school knows no history. It is not like a book, worn at the edges by… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“To give yourself over to an evil is, in some measure, to pretend that what you know is wrong is right, and then, to… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“after all these programs and scholarships, after all the work done by organized athletics at all levels, the number of boys actually playing baseball… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“Every encounter with human truth—Jane Austen deftly showing how little we know our own motives; Dickens revealing the meaning of “economy” in the cheerful… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers. Why” — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“In East Bangor, Pennsylvania (population 800), there’s a little diner named for the trolley that used to take people to the once-bustling steel town… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“What Homer could never have foreseen is the double idiocy into which we now educate our children. We have what look like our equivalent… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
