A Book Review . . . Like A Prophet Warning Of A Nightmare
By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child, by Anthony Esolen (Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Wilmington, DE, 2015); 222 pp. Available through www.isibooks.org. When many hear the word compulsion, they think of a totalitarian society or a state of imprisonment or associate the word with some addiction like drugs or alcohol, but the word applies to many subtle, sophisticated, and psychological kinds of coercion that do not appear openly aggressive or threatening. Dr. Esolen’s penetrating book exposes all these updated techniques of manipulation and indoctrination that attack and destroy a person’s humanity by suppressing his inviolable rights, exercise of freedom, religious convictions, and dictates of conscience. This “Life Under Compulsion” assumes many shapes in…Continue Reading