VIDEO
Duration: 36:20 with discussion afterwards — Talk delivered on Friday, October 15, 2021
Milton's Satan: A Liar & the Father of Lies
—Anthony Esolen—
Touchstone Senior Editor
This talk has also appeared in the pages of Touchstone. Read the paper here.
Anthony Esolen is a professor at Magdalene College of the Liberal Arts in Warner, New Hampshire, and the author of many books, including Life Under Compulsion (ISI Books), Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church (Tan, with a CD), Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture (Regnery), and The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord (Ignatius Press, 2019). He has also translated Dante's Divine Comedy (Random House).
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