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  • Should Jury Duty Be Taken from the Common Man and Given to Professionals?

    Should Jury Duty Be Taken from the Common Man and Given to Professionals?0

    Like many of us, G. K. Chesterton was once called upon for jury duty, and like any good writer, he turned that experience into an essay. But he didn’t turn the essay into a detailed account of his experience. Instead, he simply let his readers know that he had “never stood so close to pain

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  • Why Lying in Bed Can Be a Good Thing

    Why Lying in Bed Can Be a Good Thing0

    • October 2, 2018

    One of G. K. Chesterton’s most profound essays is simply titled “On Lying in Bed.” It begins in an odd and amusing way: “Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw pictures on the ceiling.” Huh? Lolling about in bed isn’t

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  • Why Chesterton Would Classify Many Modern Individuals as ‘Half-Witted’

    Why Chesterton Would Classify Many Modern Individuals as ‘Half-Witted’0

    Not all that long ago something called zero population growth was all the rage.  But no more. The great fear was a worldwide population explosion. But no more. Certainly not in the western industrialized world. And not even in a rapidly urbanizing Muslim world. G. K. Chesterton was many things, but he was not a

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  • Should College be Free?

    Should College be Free?0

    Fall is here. That means many things are on their way down, including bank accounts as parents write tuition checks.  Is anything going up? Maybe interest in “free” college. How often are we told by our friends on the left that we ought to follow the lead of Europe, specifically western Europe?  Pretty often, by

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