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What is Chestertonian?

There are some people, styles, and ideas in this world which fall under the category of Chestertonian, but who and what are they and what does it mean ‘Chestertonian’? G.K. Chesterton was an influential English figure during the early 20th Century. Eminently quotable and often referred to as the ‘prince of paradox’ and…Continue reading “What is Chestertonian?”

Poetry

A Ballade Of An Anti-Puritan

They spoke of Progress spiring round, Of light and Mrs Humphrey Ward-- It is not true to say I frowned, Or ran about the room and roared; I might have…

The Red Reactionary

16 Feb 201716 Feb 2017

The one case for Revolution is that it is the only quite clean and complete road to anything--even to restoration. Revolution alone can be not merely a revolt of the…

The Mad Official

15 Feb 201715 Feb 2017

Going mad is the slowest and dullest business in the world. I have very nearly done it more than once in my boyhood, and so have nearly all my friends,…

Democracy and Industrialism

22 Nov 201622 Nov 2016

It grows plainer, every day, that those of us who cling to crumbling creeds and dogmas, and defend the dying traditions of the Dark Ages, will soon be left alone…

The Angry Author: His Farewell

I have republished all these old articles of mine because they cover a very controversial period, in which I was in nearly all the controversies, whether I was visible there…

The New Theologian

2 Apr 20167 Mar 2017

It is an old story that names do not fit things; it is an old story that the oldest forest is called the New Forest, and that Irish stew is…

The Man Who Thinks Backwards

The man who thinks backwards is a very powerful person to-day: indeed, if he is not omnipotent, he is at least omnipresent. It is he who writes nearly all the…

Book Review: The Everlasting Man – By G.K. Chesterton

31 Mar 201631 Mar 2016

With such a well-beloved author as C.S. Lewis positing this book as one of the great contributors to his conversion to Christianity one can't help but give into the curiosity…

The Conscript and the Crisis

31 Mar 20162 Apr 2016

Very few of us ever see the history of our own time happening. And I think the best service a modern journalist can do to society is to record as…

The Thing

31 Mar 201616 Feb 2017

The wind awoke last night with so noble a violence that it was like the war in heaven; and I thought for a moment that the Thing had broken free.…