Author: Anthony Esolen › American Greatness

Single-Sex Education: A Tradition to Reconsider?

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June 26, 2024

As I’ve grown more aware of what colleges used to be like, I wonder why we take for granted the superiority of having boys and girls, or young men and women, together everywhere and all the time.

The Leaky Bucket

By Anthony Esolen

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June 7, 2024

If you do not have the family, your bucket has been punched full of holes. Not all the water in the world can fill it, because it leaks out as soon as you pour it in.

Blood Insanity

By Anthony Esolen

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April 18, 2024

Of course, this is all a bad dream. Of course.

From Enlightenment to Ignorance: Society’s Dangerous Embrace of Stupidity

By Anthony Esolen

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March 31, 2024

You are stupid when you gape indifferently at something excellent that you have the power to understand but without understanding it and without caring to.

Exploring Locke’s Legacy: Government, Property, and the Capitalistic Vision

By Anthony Esolen

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February 23, 2024

Those who criticize capitalism are like a sullen and disgruntled twin brother, envious of what the other has accomplished but taking it for granted anyway.

From Palliser to Primaries: Bemoaning the Lack of Thoughtful Leadership in the New Hampshire Primary

By Anthony Esolen

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January 15, 2024

Trollope’s even-handedness with the important political issues of his time would not go over well with writers, actors, and directors today.

Someday, We Can Have a Serious Political Discussion of What God’s Presence Means

By Anthony Esolen

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December 19, 2023

May God’s blessings be upon you and yours

Returning to Rockwell’s ‘Saying Grace’ America

By Anthony Esolen

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November 27, 2023

What was done once can be done again

Let There Be Nations; Let There be Hosts and Guests

By Anthony Esolen

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October 3, 2023

It is not good for the world to be homogeneous

Is It Our Government? Or Their Government?

By Anthony Esolen

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September 14, 2023

What is the creature we call the State? Or are WE creatures of the State?

Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Waverley’ Inverse to Hollywood’s ‘Barbie’

By Anthony Esolen

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August 21, 2023

You cannot get grownups to have a sober, rational conversation about any of our social and economic problems, because someone will pull the infantilizing trigger.

If We See the Constitution in its Proper Light, We May Begin to Honor it Again

By Anthony Esolen

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August 12, 2023

We have made the Constitution into a sacred object, a touchstone of divinity; and in that regard, we are like savages who stare at a running engine and believe that a god is in the works.

Perpetual Adolescence

By Anthony Esolen

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July 27, 2023

I have been an inveterate fan of the Saint Louis Cardinals ever since their flashy team, long on power pitching, speed on the bases and […]

Nothing, No Place, and No One

By Anthony Esolen

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July 3, 2023

I am glad that the recent case involving the creative designer in Colorado was decided correctly, as the justices of the Supreme Court determined that […]

No God, No Culture

By Anthony Esolen

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June 23, 2023

When you drum all religious sensibility out of the public sphere, most of the classics of your own literary and artistic heritage must inevitably follow.

Jabba the State and Kanamit, Inc. Seek to Serve Man

By Anthony Esolen

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June 8, 2023

People will say it’s all about business, all for money.
I don’t know that I agree.

To Love the Nearer Things

By Anthony Esolen

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May 21, 2023

You should be proud of your state, or at least of what your state was, when it was really a state and not just a provincial appendage of the national government.

An Inhuman Ugliness

By Anthony Esolen

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May 7, 2023

The arsonist you will always have with you. But must the arsonist be met with cheers? Must all our passions for justice be transmogrified into hysteria?

Our Politics of Everything and Nothing

By Anthony Esolen

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April 6, 2023

We have the worst of silliness united with the worst of ambition. Where politics is everywhere and everything, politics itself is the first casualty.

The Waste of Our Ignorant Age

By Anthony Esolen

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March 20, 2023

America has problems, cultural, economic, and political, that cannot be addressed, let alone discussed, in the current climate of hysteria, irresponsibility, and ignorance.