In these bracing essays, Anthony Esolen draws on literature, history, and lived experience to confront the falsehoods clouding modern culture and to recover the splendor of objective truth. With clarity and wit, he examines the spiritual and social consequences of denying God, exposes the contradictions embedded in contemporary ideologies, and shows how beauty, reason, and the moral law illuminate reality. Reflecting on the Ten Commandments and the meaning of true equality, community, and virtue, he equips readers to discern the language of deception and to stand firmly in gratitude, awe, and confidence in the transcendent truth of God.