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Alexander Pope, 1712 | When Jesus approached the blind beggar in Jerusalem who was begging for alms, he asked him what he wanted from him, and the…

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Word of the Week | Sight is the least material of the senses. The scientists say that photons have no mass: and if that doesn’t approach the purely…

Mar 20

Sight Listen now | Sight is the least material of the senses. The scientists say that photons have no mass: and if that doesn’t approach the purely…

Mar 20

“You’ll Never Walk Alone" is a song of hope, written when the world was literally at war, when so many were suffering so greatly, and when optimism was…

Mar 18

From "The Second Temple"Listen now | Excerpt from The Twelve-Gated City

Mar 17

From "The Second Temple"Listen now | This week’s Poetry Aloud is an excerpt from my book-length poem, The Twelve-Gated City (in progress; © Anthony M. Esolen). The selection is…

Mar 17

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Dr. Praetorius spent several years in a rural town not as an ordinary butcher pretending to be a healer, but as a…

Mar 16

Back when there weren’t any helpful drugs to clear away the obsessions of a troubled mind, a mountain of a man named Samuel Johnson kept them at bay…

Mar 15

Conclusion of "The Vanity of Human Wishes"Listen now | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had an immense capacity for human sympathy, and the only fools he did not suffer gladly were the proud and the…

Mar 15

Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1696 | Our Hymn of the Week is one of the most moving of all the psalms, the forty-second, “As the hart panteth after the…

Mar 14

For almost 200 years, some people in the west have tried to replace hope with optimism, not for persons but for the whole human race. The thing about…

Mar 13

Hope For almost 200 years, some people in the west have tried to replace hope with optimism, not for persons but for the whole human race. If we were only…

Mar 13

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