As long as we ask politicians to save us, they will exploit us. As long as we focus on differences rather than common interests, there will be resentment and envy. As long as we confront each other instead of understand each other, there will be suspicion and anger. As long…
Category: Culture
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from 1908 to 1936. I compiled the quotes below from my reading of these essays, which were compiled by Ignatius Press in Volumes 27-37 of The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton. Over the last month or…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXVII G.K. Chesterton wrote a weekly column for The Illustrated London News from the mid-1900s to the mid-1930s. Ignatius Press has assembled his essays into several volumes, as part of its massive Collected Works compilation. Despite being a century old, Chesterton’s insights are just as pertinent…
Now that we’ve had a chance to settle into what some refer to as the “New Normal,” we can begin to see how we have willed ourselves into compliance with suffocating, arbitrary and in some cases downright dangerous regulations nobody would have thought of consenting to in their wildest imaginations,…