12: Dr. Anthony Esolen: Who Burned Down the Culture, Why, and Now What?
The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation
Patrick Coffin
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Tony Esolen speaks with the urgency and verbal economy of a prophet. No words are wasted and the point of the conversation is ever before him. The professor of Renaissance English Literature and the Development of Western Civilization
at Providence College in RI, is a translator and a sage of things cultural and authentically Catholic. He’s also a connoisseur of classic movies.
Following a strong series of articles and books on marriage, sexual sanity, and Catholic social teaching, his latest book is titled Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture.
And what a wallop it packs.
Our interview used the themes and arguments in the book as jumping off points for a discussion that ranged from the long journey from boy-to-manhood to the origins of the culture crisis, to the evergreen problem of Why Johnny Can’t Read. Few writers today combine erudition with humor, insight, and a Christian spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode number 12 of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:04.0 | Warning. |
| 0:05.0 | The following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge your worldview. |
| 0:10.0 | If you feel emotionally triggered or microagrest, please go to the nearest safe space and make yourself a cruelty-free, kale and kinewa smoothie. |
| 0:16.7 | The man's a national treasure. |
| 0:18.7 | Whether you're raising Arizona or just leaving Las Vegas, |
| 0:22.8 | the Patrick Coffin Show will blow your face off. |
| 0:26.2 | True or false. |
| 0:28.2 | You're tired of secularist bullies punching your values in the face. You're looking for a smart commentary that doesn't sound like NPR with |
| 0:37.0 | our annoying voices. You're wondering where we're going and why we're in this |
| 0:41.0 | hand basket. If you answer true to any of these, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:46.8 | You're about to meet the innovators and influencers |
| 0:49.6 | who are restoring the Judeo Christian foundations of our culture right here on the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:57.0 | And now here's your host, Patrick Coffin. |
| 1:09.0 | Welcome back to the show, I am indeed Patrick Coffin. joined now by Dr. Anthony Esselin to talk about what on earth happened to American culture, |
| 1:15.1 | what's the historical route, if you will, if there's one single route of the crisis and |
| 1:19.5 | where we can go from here. |
| 1:21.6 | Dr. Esteslin is a professor of English at Providence College in Rhode |
| 1:24.8 | Island. He's also the author of the politically incorrect guide to Western |
| 1:29.3 | Civilization and other books too numerous to enumerate here about which however you can find |
| 1:34.8 | out more at patro coffin dot media his latest book is titled out of the ashes |
| 1:39.1 | rebuilding American culture he joins us now from his sprawling compound somewhere near |
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