Beauty and the Imagination
Why is a sentence from C.S. Lewis delightful while an equally true statement by another, ordinary writer, is not? “I believe in Christianity as I believe the…
A People Without History: T.S. Eliot’s Critique of Evolutionary History
While T.S. Eliot never made any comments critical of Charles Darwin or his theory of the evolution of species, he was quite critical of various popularized versions…
G.K. Chesterton: It’s the First Principles, Stupid
In what we have written here over the months about G.K. Chesterton, we have gone on and on about Chesterton the essayist and about Chesterton the newspaper…
G.K. Chesterton: A Big Round Subject
G.K. Chesterton: A Biography. Ian Ker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. It is certainly a great thick square book (on a great thick round subject). A…
Chesterton as Journalist
In the 12 October 1929 issue of the Illustrated London News, G.K. Chesterton wrote: ". . . How much more melancholy is the condition of those, in…
Rudyard Kipling or G.K. Chesterton: But Not Both
When G.K. Chesterton died on Jun 14, 1936, about six months after Rudyard Kipling, both men were long out of fashion, By now, as they recede in…
Contra Gopnik
In the 7th of July 2008 issue of the New Yorker , Mr. Adam Gopnik published "The Back of the World" (G.K. Chesterton's 'The Man who was…