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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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  • Chesterton on the ‘Unimportance’ of Evolution

    Chesterton on the ‘Unimportance’ of Evolution0

    Would you be surprised to learn that Chesterton believed in evolution?  Well, he did.  At least he believed in what he called “evolutionism.”  In a separate essay in the Illustrated London News he wrote the following: “There is an element of evolutionism in the universe, and I know of no religion or philosophy that ever entirely ignored it.” Another term

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  • Chesterton on the ‘New Rebel’

    Chesterton on the ‘New Rebel’0

    Orthodoxy (1908) is known as one of G.K. Chesterton’s classics. What is truly fascinating about the work is that it is both a critique of the social and cultural changes taking place at the turn of the last century and a sort of prophecy of what was to come. Arguably, we are living in or

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  • Chesterton Defends the Crusades

    Chesterton Defends the Crusades0

    The Crusades are often used as a cudgel in an attempt to paint Christianity as barbaric, hypocritical, and ultimately dismissible. Doing so, of course, isn’t new. G.K. Chesterton, the prolific author who lived at the turn of the last century, encountered the argument as well. His response found in The Way of the Desert, the

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