Topics

What Is & What Ought to Be

ON HUMANISM & BEING HUMAN

James V. Schall

Man does not make himself. Rather, as Aristotle remarked, he is already man when he begins to wonder what he is and why he is as he is.

The Many Identities of GKC

Chene Richard Heady

A review of G.K. Chesterton: A Biography

What Is a Patriot to Do?

John C. Chalberg

Review of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Volume XX

Falling Off Chesterton's Chariot

ON THE LOSS OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY

Marian E. Crowe

G.K. Chesterton, a Curmudgeon for Our Times

UNDENOMINATIONAL RELIGION & OTHER FOLLIES

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Distributism's Significance for Our Present Social Predicaments

James J. Thompson Jr.

Although Chesterton cultivated a streak of romanticism and delighted in excursions into fantasyland, the source and inspiration for distributism lay elsewhere.

The Chester-Mugg Tradition

Maclin Horton

Review of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton; Vol. I and Vintage Muggeridge edited by Geoffrey Barlow

Chesterton: A Literary Babe Ruth

Pete Sheehan

GKC won not only a popular following but also the respect and admiration — if not always the agreement — of serious intellectual and literary figures of his time.

A Chestertonian Adrift in an Ideological World

CONFESSIONS OF AN APOSTATE

Christopher Derrick

If you favor the cause of orthodoxy or tradition in Catholic faith and morals, you should break the close link that exists between that cause and the cause of the political Right.

G.K. Chesterton’s St. Francis of Assisi

CHRISTIAN CLASSICS REVISITED

James J. Thompson Jr.

St. Francis was that rarest of revolutionaries: one impelled by love rather than by hatred veneered with the catchwords of brotherhood.

Re-evaluating Chesterton

Arthur Livingston

Alzina Stone Dale wrote the first in what one hopes will be a spate of books re-eval­uating G.K.C. and elevating him to his deserved place in English letters.