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…
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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…
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…
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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXVI 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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXV 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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXIV 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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXIII 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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXII 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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXXI 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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXX 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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXIX 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…
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Volume XXVIII 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…
Trial by Ice, by Richard Parry, is a fascinating and exciting account of the 1871 Polaris Expedition, an American naval mission to discover the North Pole. The story is absolutely remarkable in itself, but what makes the book so valuable…
Note: This idea came my way many weeks ago from a subscriber who prefers to remain nameless. But like any writer worth his salt, I’m stealing borrowing the idea. In 2022, a new word will be firmly entrenched in the…
On one of my recent lockdown walks, I was studying Illinois license plates on the many parked cars that would normally be at places of work rather than in driveways. What a fiasco that new license plate design was. The…
I went on a long walk this morning, and, to turn a Warren Zevon lyric upside down, it gave me a chance to contemplate eternity above the vast indifference of demons. In this very strange, anxiety-inducing and uncertain present, are…
Challenging times. Hard to keep on an even keel in these days of isolation. For some, escapism is a good coping strategy. But if you want to explore aspects of loneliness in the hope of finding understanding and answers, here…
The coronavirus — and now the oil price war — have sent the entire world into panic mode. The markets are dropping like rocks, states are declaring states of emergency after a handful of flu diagnoses or less, conventions are…
Happy St. Valentine’s Day. As Virgil said a while back, “Love conquers all .” The world, now as then, needs to be conquered. “At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. “Who, being…