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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?”

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The Suffragist

29 Mar 201624 Feb 2017

Rightly or wrongly, it is certain that a man both liberal and chivalric, can and very often does feel a dis-ease and distrust touching those political women we call Suffragettes.…

Alan Watts on G.K. Chesterton

29 Mar 201629 Mar 2016

Alan Watts was a British-American philosopher, writer, and theologian who served as a priest in the Episcopal church before moving to California and helping popularize Eastern religion in the West.…

The Poet and the Cheese

28 Mar 20161 Apr 2016

There is something creepy in the flat Eastern Counties; a brush of the white feather. There is a stillness, which is rather of the mind than of the bodily senses.…

“Lions: Real, Heraldic, and Symbolic”

28 Mar 201624 Feb 2017

Illustrated London News – November 11, 1905 Sir Thomas Browne, whose tercentenary was celebrated at Norwich the other day, was, as everybody knows, a medical man. He was a rather curious…

“Detectives and Detective Fictions”

26 Mar 201631 Mar 2016

Illustrated London News - November 4, 1905 I wonder what real detectives are like. It may be that my life has been abnormally placid but I have never wanted to…

Is America Too Big?

1 Mar 20167 Mar 2017

As G.K. Chesterton said nearly a hundred years ago: “There is a perfectly serious historical and economic case for anybody who says that by far the brightest hope for a…

“Raillery on the Beach”

4 Feb 201616 Feb 2017

Illustrated London News – October 27, 1905 Every nation has a soul and every soul has a secret: hence there are some incommunicable things in every people; some national virtues must always…

“Fanaticism in the Suburbs”

19 Jan 20164 Feb 2016

Illustrated London News - October 21, 1905 Perhaps the two most important people in our civilization at present are the two elderly ladies who defended their residence with drawn swords. They are…

Books

Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton

22 Dec 201524 Mar 2016

PREFACE This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called "Heretics"…

“Serious Things in Holiday Time London”

22 Dec 201531 Mar 2016

Illustrated London News - October 14, 1905 I cannot imagine why this season of the year is called by journalists the Silly Season: it is the only season in which men have…