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Overview

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: 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.

About the Author:
Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College, and a senior editor of Touchstone magazine. He is the editor and translator of several epic poems of the West, including the three volumes of Dante's Divine Comedy. He is one of the team-teachers of Providence College's Development of Western Civilization Core Curriculum

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781596980594
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 6/3/2008
  • Pages: 340
  • Sales rank: 285,989
  • Series: Politically Incorrect Guides
  • Product dimensions: 7.20 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College, and a senior editor of Touchstone magazine. He is the editor and translator of several epic poems of the West, including the three volumes of Dante's Divine Comedy. He is one of the team-teachers of Providence College's Development of Western Civilization Core Curriculum. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife, Debra, and two children.

Table of Contents


Preface     xi
Ancient Greece: Love of Wisdom and Beauty     1
Laws that cannot be amended
Athens: Better than the rest
Father, not mother
The Greek Isles effect
Tradition and the natural law
Athenian relativists
Beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder
The universal Good
The State and the end of man
Rome: An Empire of Tradition and Patriarchy     39
Respecting your elders
Father knows best
Tradition's wisdom vs. democracy's fickleness
Peace through strength
The real reason Rome fell
Israel: How God Changed the World     67
A God above nature, not a nature god
Not a political god, but the King of kings
Knowing God yields science
They that humble themselves shall be exalted
A thousand years are as a day
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
The peace of God that passeth understanding
The Early Church: Charity and Tolerance Are Born     97
How Christianity saved the West
Christianity brings equality and tolerance
The State, that pagan god
How Christians elevated culture
The truth about heretics
The Good News brings charity
The High Middle Ages: The Bright Ages     131
Islam vs. civilization
Warmer is better-someone tell Al Gore
Ruggedly alive
The Bright Ages: Life in the cathedrals
Drama's rebirth: Another fruit of Christianity
PC myth: The Middle Ages were the Dark Ages
When love and nature were richer
PC trope: Dancing angels and pinheads
Before PC: When intellectual curiosity could thrive
The Renaissance: It'sNot What You Think     167
The PC myths about the Renaissance
Is there a nature in this man?
Honoring the past
Shakespeare on his knees
Where the Renaissance went wrong: Undermining authority
The Enlightenment: Liberty and Tyranny     203
The will enslaved
"Enlightenment" yields tyranny
Ecrasez l'infame!
The Pilgrim Fathers
Conservative Founders?
America's forgotten models: Rome and Athens
Saving reason from itself
Rousseau and the State
Samuel Johnson
The Nineteenth Century: Man Is a God; Man Is a Beast     243
The Romantics' new religion: Nature
Worshipping man
What the Industrial Revolution wrought
Is there such a thing as bad art?
Nietzsche: The honest atheist
Conservative champions of human dignity
The Twentieth Century: A Century of Blood     281
Walter Mitty, rugged individual
The empire strikes back
The health of the State, the poverty of the soul
Art from the people; Art against the people
Science without knowledge
The Pill's bitter effects
History can restore us
Notes     311
Index     329

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 20, 2008

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    Finally, a book that does not merely defend the West but positively commends its values and achievements to the world. There's a reason it's called 'Western Civilization.' To the extent that other cultures are Westernized, they become increasingly civilized. If a culture shows itself to be civilized, you can safely assume it has been Westernized sometime in its recent past. Away with all false modesty, self-loathing, and guilt! The world owes a debt of gratitude for the pervasive influence of the West. Only to the degree that we understand this to be so will the world remain civilized. To depart from our Western heritage is suicidal. All cultures are not created equal. This book clearly demonstrates the moral, cultural, political, intellectual, and spiritual superiority of Western Civilization. 'Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Western Civ's the way to go!'

    8 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 1, 2009

    I hoped this was a satire ... I found it was insanity!

    Full disclosure: I am a historian and a published author with several books in print.

    "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization" is is a study in cognitive dissonance and so full of historical errors and self-contradictions I could easily write a review as long as the text itself, stating (and documenting) its errors page by page.

    Just a few examples--it cites the Enlightenment as a major source of all that is wrong in the world, the evil force that germinated (gasp!)democracy, a quest for equality (with particular venom for "feminazis" who refuse to accept their proper place(s) in the kitchen, bedroom, and nursery--choosing instead to pursue higher education and positions of influence while simultaneously destroying family). Esolen posits that abortion is the sign of modernity's self-destructive direction and praises classical cultures in comparison--all the while ignoring (or showing his ignorance of) the widely-accepted Spartan practice of abandoning unwanted babies to die. He decries the abomination of another threat to family--homosexuality--while ignoring the prominence of pedophilia and rape in "the more civilized" Greece and Rome. Esolen credits Judeo-Christianity with all that is good in the world, but ignores decades--no, centuries!--of violence conducted by Christians in the name of religion: the Crusades, the Inquisition, the explorers of America who enslaved or obliterated native cultures, and so on.

    I propose a minor change in the title for the next printing: "The Incorrect Guide..." Better yet, let's just go back to the time-"honored" practice of burning books. Place this one on the top of the pile.

    2 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 13, 2010

    Buy It and Home School History

    Go ask a recent college or high school graduate to define natural law and he or she will probably look at you and say "huh?". If we do not understand natural law or all the lessons of Western Civilization we are not truly educated. It does not matter how brilliant we are in math and science if we are clueless about Western thought we are doomed. Read this book and all the PI Guides.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 4, 2012

    This book cuts through many myths about history, and manages to

    This book cuts through many myths about history, and manages to balance accuracy with satire so that it's easy to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. In other words, the editorials stand out as editorials, while the facts are presented as facts that can be easily verified in other sources. In many places, Esolen relies on primary sources from the periods that he's covering, so that we're given contrasting points of view from the people who actually lived at the time, or, in other words, what those people thought they thought, rather than our thoughts about them. Yes, there are many satirical barbs about today's politically correct shibboleths, and I imagine a proponent of those shibboleths might find them irritating, but at least they aren't presented as inarguable truths, as are so many subjective myths in current "histories."

    I might add that Esolen's prose style is brilliant. There were times when I stopped and reread a sentence several times because it was so beautifully turned, sometimes rising to the level of poetry. (I realized, with one of them at the end of a paragraph, that it was a perfect iambic hexameter.)

    And in response to the reviewer who presented his or her credentials as a well-published historian, I too am a well-published scholar in literary history and social history, as well as a published poet.

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