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  • Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde

    Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde0

    Oscar Wilde’s literally genius can be found in many literary styles, but it was his use of paradox that truly set him apart from all others. The possible exception to this, of course, was a contemporary of Wilde’s: G.K. Chesterton. In many ways—politics, temperament, religion, and taste in art—the two men could not have been

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  • Chesterton’s Real Opinion of ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’

    Chesterton’s Real Opinion of ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’0

    G. K. Chesterton had a low opinion of his own abilities as a novelist. “[M]y real judgment of my own work,” he confessed, “is that I have spoilt a number of jolly good ideas in my time.” “I think “The Napoleon of Notting Hill” was a book very well worth writing; but I am not

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  • Chesterton: Science Is a Tool (or a Toy), Nothing More

    Chesterton: Science Is a Tool (or a Toy), Nothing More0

    While he was never a teacher, G. K. Chesterton did help instruct his readers about how to think about many things. Far from the least of those things was science. And while he was never a scientist, Chesterton certainly knew something about thinking about science. To be succinct, Chesterton regarded science as either a “tool or a

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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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