The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization

A very interesting book, which challenges the notion that the Dark Ages was really dark, and that science and rationality are the pinnacle of Western Civilisation (parts on Blaise Pascal and Samuel Johnson are some of my favorite parts). A good book to hit at the science-loving, rationality-worshipp......more

Great for what it is: a guide to read alongside other histories. I expect even liberals could get value out of this book, because it raises good questions and encourages critical thinking. And it's full of recommendations for learning material. I found the early chapters on Greece and Rome most inter......more

Despite some annoying but minor factual errors such as describing as English the Scottish philosopher David Hume and the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and calling Königsberg the "imperial capital" of eighteenth-century Prussia--a kingdom, not an empire, whose capital was Berlin--I found Esolen's romp......more

Excellent analysis that dismays but leaves us with hope. A must read for all parents of school-aged children. The analysis dismays, but at the last, there is hope for the West. I pray that we may be given a glimpse of that hope being realized.......more

Replace "politically incorrect" with "woke" and this could have been written yesterday. Esolen is always spot-on.......more