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Everything you should know--but PC professors won't teach--about our Western heritage

Western civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of human rights (rooted in Judeo-Christian principles), created standards for art, music, and literature that have never been equaled, and originated political and social systems that have spread all across the planet.

Unfortunately, the fog of political correctness now obscures these and other truths about Western civilization. Leftists and Islamic jihadists find common cause in assailing Western "colonialism," "imperialism," and "racism" as its defining characteristics. Guilt-ridden Western leaders and public figures speak of their cultural patrimony in disparaging terms they would never dare to use about a non-Western culture. And in the academy, "multicultural"-minded professors flatter students into believing they have nothing really to learn from Sophocles or Shakespeare.

But now, Professor Anthony Esolen--one of the team-teachers of Providence College's esteemed Development of Western Civilization Core Curriculum--has risen to the West's defense. The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to Western Civilization takes on the prevailing liberal assumptions that make Western civilization the universal whipping boy for today's global problems, and introduces you to the significant events, individuals, nations, ideas, and artistic achievements that make Western civilization the greatest the world has ever known.

Today--with the West imperiled as never before by the global jihad and threats from China and elsewhere--defending the West has become an urgent imperative: if we don't value what we have and what we have inherited, we will surely lose it. The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Western Civilization is an essential sourcebook for that defense.

From the Back Cover

Christianity. Judaism. Dead white males. Old-fashioned morality. The traditional family. Tradition itself. Everything the liberals hate can be summed up in two words: Western civilization. Here is the ultimate Politically Incorrect Guide(tm): a sprightly, informative summary of the original source of all things politically incorrect from Moses, Caesar, and Christ, to Dante, Thomas More, and the Founding Fathers.

PC professors don't want you to know that:

* Patriarchy and civilization go hand-in-hand (just ask the ancient Romans)
* Modern science came from the Middle Ages (and a Biblical view of the universe)
* The Renaissance was the flowering of a specifically Christian and classical culture
* The "progressive ideas" of the nineteenth century led to the fascism, communism, and two world wars of the twentieth century

"`The glory that was Greece...the grandeur that was Rome'--not so long ago, these were the birthright of every educated American. But no more. If you had to name one thing that the vandals who've seized control on our college campuses don't want their students to learn, it would be Western civilization. More and more, we live with blinders on, ignorant of everything but current fads. In this sparkling book--the ultimate Politically Incorrect Guide(tm)--Anthony Esolen provides a fabulous introduction to the history and culture of the West. Esolen opens up a new world of people and ideas for those of us who live in the twenty-first century but don't want to be prisoners of the passing moment."
--Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D., author of
The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to English and American Literature

"An acclaimed translator of Dante, and a brilliant teacher of Western civilization, Professor Esolen is the perfect Virgil, guiding the student through the fugue-like influence of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome."
--Russell Hittinger, William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Tulsa

"With a mind and heart well-formed by the very best that has made Western civilization both civil and great, Esolen vividly portrays our four-millennia drama in thought, politics, the family, art, poetry, architecture, war, peace, and the blessed intricacies of everyday life--his eye ever trained on the true, the good, and the beautiful, and rightly indignant of all that now threatens to reduce Western civilization to ashes and a new barbarism."
--Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D., author of
10 Books That Screwed Up the World

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery Publishing (May 27, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596980591
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596980594
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Anthony Esolen is a professor of English and a writer in residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in Warner, New Hampshire. He is a senior editor of Touchstone magazine, and a contributing editor of Crisis and Chronicles. A poet in his own right, Professor Esolen is known for his verse translations of epic poetry, including the three volumes of Dante's Divine Comedy (Random House, Modern Library), Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (Johns Hopkins), and Lucretius' On the Nature of Things (Johns Hopkins). His sacred work, The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord, is a book length sacred poem centered on the life of Christ. A noted essayist and social commentator, Anthony Esolen has published books on a broad range topics from literature, to theology, to education and culture, ancient to modern.

Books by Anthony Esolen

On the Nature of Things

(Verse translation of Lucretius’ De rerum natura, with scholarly commentary)

Johns Hopkins, 1995

Jerusalem Delivered

(Verse translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, with scholarly commentary)

Johns Hopkins, 2000

Ironies of Faith: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature

ISI, 2007

Inferno (verse translation of Dante’s Inferno)

Random House, Modern Library Edition, 2002

Purgatory (verse translation of Dante's Purgatorio)

Random House, Modern Library Edition, 2003

Paradise (verse translation of Dante's Paradiso)

Random House, Modern Library Edition, 2005

The Beauty of the Word: A Running Commentary on the Roman Missal

Magnificat, 2012

Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching (treatise on the social teaching of Pope Leo XIII)

Sophia Instute Press, 2014

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization

Regnery, 2008

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of your Child

ISI, 2010

Roman Missal Companion

Magnificat, 2011

Reflections on the Christian Life

Sophia Institute Press, 2012

Living the Days of Advent and the Christmas Season

Paulist Press, 2013

Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity

St. Benedict Press, 2014

Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child

ISI, 2015

Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church

Tan Books, 2016

Angels, Barbarians, & Nincompoops

Tan Books, 2017

Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture

Regnery, 2017

Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World

Regnery, 2018

No Apologies: How Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men

Regnery, 2022

Defending Boyhood

Tan Books, 2018

How the Church Has Changed the World,

Magnificat, Volume One, 2019; Volume Two, 2020; Volume Three 2022

In the Beginnng Was the Word

Angelico Press, 2021

The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord

Ignatius, 2018

Peppers

New Poets Series, 1991

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