# Anthony Esolen
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Anthony M. Esolen is a writer, social commentator, translator of classical poetry, and Writer-in-Residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts. He taught at Furman University and Providence College before transferring to the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in 2017 and Magdalen in 2019.
Esolen has translated into English Dante's Divine Comedy, Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, and Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered.
Who is a Christian?
By Anthony Esolen
The Department of Defense recently made waves over a decision to remove Mormons from the category of "Christian," to distinguish more clearly among the chaplains and the servicemen as to who might best minister to them in matters of faith and morals. The label seems to be intended…
Love, Lust, and Lancelot: Dante's Inferno, Canto 5
We're in hell for real now. Dante enters the circle of the lustful, where the sinister King Minos strips souls naked and condemns them to their proper place. What does that mean? What does it mean to be "evil-born," and what does Dante show us about the nature of lust? Not, it turns out, that its w…
Dante's Inferno: The Seven Deadly Sins
Put that Twinkie down, you slob, and let's talk about GLUTTONY. The fourth circle of hell is where Dante encounters the people who lived their lives scarfing down cannoli and now spend their afterlife getting pelted with slime and chewed up by the three-headed beast Cerberus. It's also where the po…
191 - Four Days, One Rabbit Hole, Zero Regrets
Some rabbit holes are worth the fall.
It started as a detour from the plan. Because I was bored, of course. And apparently I don't like being told what to do, even when I'm the one telling me. Then it turned into 4 days of obsessive reading. Which may or may not have been followed by watching t…
Devolution a la Mode
By Anthony Esolen
In the pilot episode of the old television show The Waltons, the six Walton children have gathered outdoors in the cold and the snow, where a lady from a religious charity is handing out Christmas presents to the littler ones. The presents have been donated by people better off th…
Ep. 89 - Sean Bohnet and the Power of Music
This is Episode 89 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Sean Bohnet shares how he became a self-learner, describes the power of music in the home and cosmos, and convinces the audience that there's no such thing as being "tone deaf." Learn more abo…
Humanity, Please
By Anthony Esolen
The other day I saw a photo of some homework a schoolboy did, marked wrong by the teacher. The question asked, "Which is greater, 0.2 or 0.14?" The boy correctly said it was 0.2. But the teacher wrote, "0.14 has more digits! Please study." I hardly know where to begin. A schooltea…
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