“If you knew there was a beach where you could pick up gold nuggets like pebble stones, would you not go there?… — Anthony M. Esolen Beach 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… — Anthony M. Esolen Athletics 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… — Anthony M. Esolen Books 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… — Anthony M. Esolen Evil 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… — Anthony M. Esolen Conscience 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… — Anthony M. Esolen North star 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… — Anthony M. Esolen History 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… — Anthony M. Esolen Feminism 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… — Anthony M. Esolen Jane austen 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… — Anthony M. Esolen Baseball Copy Share Image
“For the mob is a congregation of compulsions. It does not matter who or what squats upon the altar: Robespierre, Beelzebub, Mussolini,… — Anthony M. Esolen Communication 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… — Anthony M. Esolen Aristotle Copy Share Image
