Post Tagged 'Anthony Esolen'

May 07, 2025

What Is Marriage?

In 2014, Anthony Esolen published Defending Marriage, responding to the effort to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. In it, he argues that the fight over redefining marriage was lost long before this specific policy battle, when we began to lose sight of marriage as a permanent, exclusive, fruitful bond between husband and wife. Continue Reading...

December 07, 2020

Book Review: ‘Sex and the Unreal City’ by Anthony Esolen

Sex and the Unreal City. Anthony Esolen Ignatius Press. 2020. 209 pages. What is the primary problem in society? An embrace of unreality, answers Anthony Esolen in his latest book, Sex and the Unreal City. Continue Reading...

November 06, 2013

Samuel Gregg: ‘Truth has a way of making its presense felt’

Two writers over at Aleteia have commented on the current state of affairs with the help of Samuel Gregg’s latest, Tea Party Catholic. Brantly Millegan, Assistant Editor for the English edition of Aleteia, write a post titled, ‘Obama’s Ordinary, No-Big-Deal “Whopper.”‘ Continue Reading...

October 29, 2013

The Real Lesson of Prohibition

In 1919 Congress passed the Volstead Act enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting, for almost all purposes, the production, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. There are two erroneous things everybody has learned from Prohibition, says Anthony Esolen: “First, it is wrong to try to legislate morality. Continue Reading...

October 21, 2013

License For Evil

No, that’s not the name of a new James Bond movie. Rather, it’s a Public Discourse post by Anthony Esolen that discusses society’s ability (and disability) to get a handle on evil actions and morality. Continue Reading...

June 05, 2013

The Dark Ages – Not So Dark, Really

The Dark Ages: that time when people knew the Earth was flat, the civilization of the Western Roman Empire had collapsed, and people basically sat around waiting for something – anything – good to happen. Continue Reading...