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  • Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’

    Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’0

    If anything positive has come about from the 2016 presidential campaign season, it would be that the press has revealed its true character. Complaints abound from Americans of all stripes that “the media” is more interested in driving its own narrative than simply informing the public. In his 1908 book Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton wrote about

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  • Chesterton: In Defense of Eating that Christmas Turkey

    Chesterton: In Defense of Eating that Christmas Turkey0

    The holiday season is here, and with it comes the dance to make sure nobody is offended. Want to have a holiday party at work? Better make it a generic potluck so the Jehovah’s Witness will come. Concerned that the Charlie Brown Christmas play is too religious in nature? Better neutralize it so no one

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  • Chesterton: Dogma is Inescapable in Education

    Chesterton: Dogma is Inescapable in Education0

    As you might imagine, the section of G. K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World that is devoted to the “mistake about the child” has something to do with the education of the child.  Actually, he thought that more than one mistake was being made, but all mistakes were traceable to any aspect of education

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  • Chesterton On Why You Should Be A Reactionary

    Chesterton On Why You Should Be A Reactionary0

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  • Chesterton on the Difference Between Progress and a Progressivism

    Chesterton on the Difference Between Progress and a Progressivism0

    Who could possibly be opposed to progress?  G.K. Chesterton certainly wasn’t.  But he did have his disagreements with those who liked to call themselves progressives.  And therein lies a tale—or at least a point. Progressives versus conservatives.  The battle hardly figures to be a fair one—especially among the young.  To amend and repeat: who, under

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  • Chesterton on the Dangers of ‘Cloudy Political Cowardice’

    Chesterton on the Dangers of ‘Cloudy Political Cowardice’0

    If G. K. Chesterton were around to account for what’s wrong with our world today, he’d likely list political correctness high among our current ills.  The term itself would not have been familiar to him, but the phenomenon was.  He detected in the atmosphere of his era a “cloudy political cowardice.”  Instead of telling others

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