Description: "An analysis of ways in which modern education, popular culture, political culture, and technology wittingly or unwittingly enslave children to compulsions. The book seeks to elaborate on the concept of freedom as for something and not merely from something, while laying out the case for lost wisdom and the meaning of being fully human"--
Brief description: Anthony Esolen, Professor of English at Providence College, is the editor and translator of the Modern Library edition of Dante's Divine Comedy. He has published scholarly articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, Dante, and Tasso in various journals and is a senior editor and frequent contributor to Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.
Review Quotes: "Esolen shows how under the spell of that conjuring word freedom we wrap children in cords of bondage. His Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child was a wonderful book; this is a profound one." --J. Budziszewski, University of Texas, author of On the Meaning of Sex "Life Under Compulsion is for anyone who wants to understand how thoroughly our contemporary culture has weakened and warped our fundamental humanity. This is at once a deeply entertaining and a seriously impressive book. Dare to approach it with an open mind, and you will not put it down unchanged." --CatholicCulture.org