Anthony Esolen discusses an upcoming essay in First Things on hymn texts and an article for Chronicles Magazine on fascist imagery in American federal art and sculpture.  He also considers the Vipers' Tangle by Francois Mauriac, a book he is currently teaching in his Honors Colloquium, "The Literature of Spiritual Crisis."  How might such a book shape how we see marriage and the world, directing our decisions?  Finally, he introduces and reads his surprising dramatic monologue "The Demoniac from Gadara" from his poem The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord.

Links of potential interest:

The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord

Video of Anthony Esolen's "The Boethius Option"

Riccardo Bacchelli's Lo sguardo di Gesù

Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts