No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men

There will be no more apologising for being a guy! Best-selling social analyst Anthony Esolen appeals to ancient knowledge to defend the male traits of strength, drive, ambition, and determination in the construction and maintenance of civilization.

It's past time to call a stop to the apology tour for conventional masculinity. A generation of young men and boys is being indoctrinated to despise themselves, taught that the heart of their masculinity is not only repugnant, but also responsible for the majority, if not all, of humanity's misfortunes.

Anthony Esolen, a veteran author and lecturer, makes a forceful case for the merits of manly strength in No Apologies. Esolen demonstrates how civilization has rested on the strength of men, from the thankless brute force of the nameless men who erected buildings, paved roads, and cleared the ground upon which human society stands, to the boundless energy of youth that compelled centuries of global exploration, to the father's embodied authority as protector, director, and exemplar of law and justice.

To give a forceful and relevant defence of the male ethos, Esolen relies on two millennia of historical thinking, exposing his readers to giants such as Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Solzhenitsyn, and even Mark Twain.

Hardcover. 204 pages.