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…
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SightListen 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…
“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…
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From "The Second Temple"Listen now | Excerpt from The Twelve-Gated City
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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HopeFor 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…