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Soviet Union
 
Soylent Green
 
Spanish Inquisition
 
Sparta
 
Spencer, Herbert
 
Spenser, Edmund
 
Spinoza, Baruch
 
Spiritual Exercises
(Ignatius of Loyola)
 
sports
 
Stalin, Joseph
 
Standish, Myles
 
State; ancient Greece and; Christianity and; Enlightenment and; family and; Founding Fathers and; freedom and; God and; good and evil and; individualism and; man, end of and; paganism and; Rome and; twentieth century and; worship of
 
Stephen, J. F.
 
Steyn, Mark
 
Stoicism
 
The Stones of Venice
(Ruskin)
 
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
 
Suetonius
 
suffrage. justice and; women and
 
Sulla
 
Summa Contra Gentiles
(Aquinas)
 
Summa Theologiae
(Aquinas)
 
Summa Theologica
(Aquinas)
 
Supreme Court, U. S.
 
Swift, Jonathan
 
Symposium
(Plato)
 
T
 
Tacitus
 
Tarquin the Proud
 
Tasso, Torquato
 
taxation. Rome and; twentieth century and
 
The Tempest
(Shakespeare)
 
10 Books That Screwed Up the World
(Wiker)
 
Ten Commandments
 
Teresa of Avila, Saint
 
Terminus
 
Tertullian
 
Thales of Miletus
 
Themistocles
 
Theodosius
 
Theogony
(Hesiod)
 
Theresa, Mother
 
Theseus
 
Thirty Years’ War
 
Thoreau, Henry David
 
Thorndike, Lynn
 
Thrasymachus
 
Thucydides
 
Tiberius
 
Tintoretto
 
Titans
 
Titian
 
To Autumn
(Keats)
 
Tocqueville, Alexis de
 
tolerance; Christianity and; Left and
 
Tolkien, J. R. R.
 
Tom Jones
(Fielding)
 
Torah
 
tradition. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; modernity and; Rome and; twentieth century and; Western civilization and
 
Trajan, Emperor
 
Tres Riches Heures
(Duc de Berry)
 
Tristan
 
Trojan War
 
Twain, Mark
 
The Twelve Caesars
(Suetonius)
 
twentieth century. art and; birth control and; Catholic
 
twentieth century. art and, (continued) Church and; communism and; education and; Enlightenment and; history and; human sexuality and; individualism and; literature in; nineteenth-century science and; political correctness and; progress and; religion and; science and; Sexual Revolution and; socialism and; State and; taxation and; technological advances in; tradition and; women and
 
tyranny. democracy and; Enlightenment and; Marxism and
 
U
 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe)
 
Undset, Sigrid
 
Unitarianism
 
United States. ancient Greece as model for; Enlightenment and; immigration in; in nineteenth century; Pilgrim Fathers and Enlightenment and; Rome as model for
 
Urban II, Pope
 
utilitarianism
 
Utopia
 
Utopia
(More)
 
V
 
Valla, Lorenzo
 
Vasari, Giorgio
 
Vatican II
 
Vietnam War
 
Virgil
 
Virginia, University of
 
Vitruvius
 
Voltaire
 
voting rights.
See
suffrage
 
Vulgate
 
W
 
Walesa, Lech
 
War Between the States
 
Washington, George
 
Waugh, Evelyn
 
Wayne, John
 
Weaver, Richard
 
Webster, Daniel
 
Webster, John
 
Wells, H. G.
 
Wesley, John
 
Western civilization. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; Enlightenment and; family and; Israel and; Jerusalem and; Jesus and; Middle Ages and; morality and; nineteenth century and; political correctness and; Renaissance and; renewal of; Rome and; tradition and; twentieth century and
 
“What is Enlightenment?” (Kant)
 
Whitman, Walt
 
Whittier, John Greenleaf
 
Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
(Hanson and Heath)
 
“The Wife’s of Bath’s Prologue” (Chaucer)
 
Wiker, Benjamin
 
Wilde, Oscar
 
William of Aquitaine
 
William of Orange
 
Wilson, Woodrow
 
The Winter’s Tale
(Shakespeare)
 
witches
 
Witherspoon, John
 
Wollstonecraft, Mary
 
women. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; in Israel; Middle Ages and; nineteenth century and; Rome and; suffrage and; twentieth century and
 
Wordsworth, William
 
World War II
 
Wyler, William
 
X
 
Xenophon
 
Xerxes, King of Persia
 
Y
 
Yeats, William Butler
 
“You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead” (O’Connor)
 
Z
 
Zeus
 
Copyright © 2008 by Anthony Michael Esolen
 
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