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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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  • Chesterton and the Meaning of Education

    Chesterton and the Meaning of Education0

    “It is typical of our time,” Chesterton wrote, “that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it

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  • Chess Champ Explains Trump Rise in a Single Sentence

    Chess Champ Explains Trump Rise in a Single Sentence1

    Russian political activist Garry Kasparov decried the West’s “complacency and retreat” from the fight against Islamic terrorism in the wake of the terrorist attack in Brussels. In a Facebook post published Tuesday, Kasparov, a grandmaster chess player and former world champion, began by hinting that the West would have to get serious in its fight

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