According to Wikipedia, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who lived from May 1874 to June 1936, was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. Some have referred to him ...

This is an undated portrait of G.K. Chesterton by Edwin Swan. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an agnostic who converted to Catholicism in 1922 and became one of Catholicism's best-known defenders. (OSV ...

Christian History Magazine Editorial Staff (Author), Galli, Mark (Editor), Olsen, Ted (Editor), Packer, J. I. (Foreword) Some historical figures manage to be both famous and obscure. John Newton, the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The ordinary modern progressive position is that this is a bad universe, but will certainly get better. I say it ...

Chesterton clashed with many leading intellectuals of his day. He also counted them as friends. The prolific playwright, critic, essayist, and Irishman G.B. Shaw first met Chesterton in 1901. They ...

*"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." *"All government is an ugly necessity." *"A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the ...