Out of the Ashes : Rebuilding American Culture

"Out of the Ashes is a full-throated, stout-hearted call to arms—soul-stirring,uncompromising, and irresistible." —ROD DREHER, author of The Benedict Option "Out of the Ashes is an astonishing combination of energy, humor, insight, and exceptional erudition, topped off by a vivid personal style and a special gift for tweaking the nose of secularist nonsense-peddlers. If you're looking for a guide to our current cultural predicament (and how to fix it), one that's sobering and invigorating at the same time, start with this book." —CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia "Anthony Esolen is one of our nation's best writers because he's one of our best thinkers. Out of the Ashes is vintage Esolen: eloquent, bold, insightful, profound." — RYAN T. ANDERSON, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, and author of Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and ReligiousFreedom What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you? You do everything. This is a book about how to get started. The Left's culture war threatens America's foundation and its very civilization, warns Esolen in his brand new book, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture . They will tell you that babies in the womb are fetuses, that gender is a social construct, and that the backbone of society is government not the community. In Out of the Ashes , Esolen outlines his surprisingly simple plan to take back American culture— start at home. Esolen urges us to demand a return to values in our homes, our schools, our churches, and our communities, and to reject political correctness. "We must become tellers of truth again—and people who are willing to hear truths, especially when it hurts to hear them." **__"Out of the Ashes is a full-throated, stout-hearted call to arms—soul-stirring,uncompromising, and irresistible."__ —ROD DREHER, author of The Benedict Option __"Out of the Ashes is an astonishing combination of energy, humor, insight, and exceptional erudition, topped off by a vivid personal style and a special gift for tweaking the__ __nose of secularist nonsense-peddlers. If you're looking for a guide to our current cultural predicament (and how to fix it), one that's sobering and invigorating at the same time, start with this book."__ —CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia __"Anthony Esolen is one of our nation's best writers because he's one of our best thinkers. Out of the Ashes is vintage Esolen: eloquent, bold, insightful, profound."__ — RYAN T. ANDERSON, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, and author of __Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and ReligiousFreedom__ __What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you?__** You do everything. This is a book about how to get started. The Left's culture war threatens America's foundation and its very civilization, warns Esolen in his brand new book, . They will tell you that babies in the womb are fetuses, that gender is a social construct, and that the backbone of society is government not the community. In , Esolen outlines his surprisingly simple plan to take back American culture— start at home. Esolen urges us to demand a return to values in our homes, our schools, our churches, and our communities, and to reject political correctness. **__"We must become tellers of truth again—and people who are willing to hear truths, especially when it hurts to hear them."__** It's not your imagination: civilized human society#x97;the institutions and values that separate man from beast and bring us closer to God#x97;is collapsing. Communities are no longer directed towards a common good; children are no longer our first priority; businesses no longer value ""good work""; great arts and skills have been lost; and manhood and womanhood are no longer celebrated as necessary complementary energies. We cannot reverse national and global trends, says professor Anthony Esolen; but what we can and should do is rebuild intentional communities that live up to humanity's promise and "Blunt and prophetic, [the author] makes the case that the decay of Western civilization is alarmingly advanced. Our sickly, sub-pagan state resembles a bombed-out city. We have to assess the damage, but merely lamenting it does no good. There is work to be done."--Jacket flap