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Belloc Friday
Hoar Time about the house betakes him slow,
Seeking an entry for his weariness.
And in that dreadful company distress
And the sad night with silent footsteps go.
How to think like a Chestertonian
Think about it: do you really want to be like Michael Corleone, publically rejecting “Satan and all his works” while your minions are out murdering your enemies?
What’s Christmas without a heartfelt holiday poem from Kevin O’Brien?
Kevin O’Brien at his comic best!
Dale Ahlquist blogging at LifeSiteNews
The Nativity could not be a more contrary celebration in a society that has such a bizarre attitude toward birth, broadly unwelcoming, but often narrowly and violently hateful.
Chesterton’s Scrapbook: A Look at G.K.’s Weekly
From a talk delivered at Christendom College, February 28, 2006, in celebration of the college’s acquisition of a rare complete set of G.K.’s Weekly 1925-1937.
WSJ Book Review: Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric – WSJ.com
Book Review: Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric – WSJ.com. “An incidental effect of Mr. Farnsworth’s selection of examples is a kind of covert literary criticism. We are alerted to G.K. Chesterton’s love of chiasmus—the ABBA pattern in which repetition involves reversal. Chesterton writes that “we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get [...]
Father Brown Stories Adapted for Children
Introduce children to Chesterton now with these adapted stories from Chesterton’s most famous priest detective, Father Brown. Adapted for reading alone or out loud to 9-12 year olds. The first Father Brown Reader include four mysteries: The Blue Cross The Strange Feet The Flying Stars The Absence of Mr. Glass Included in the brand new series [...]
New book on the Tudor dynasty
Former Gilbert Magazine contributing editor Gerry Meyer has written a comprehensive, in-depth book on England’s most infamous royals, The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty. American Chesterton Society president Dale Ahlquist calls it “an impressive achievement,” adding, “There is no one in all of history who did as much damage to as [...]
“Vastly Ignorant of Many Things”
G.K. Chesterton once wrote in the New York Times, “I am a journalist and so am vastly ignorant of many things, but because I am a journalist I write and talk about them all.” As a critique of modern journalism, it is much more fitting, and true, than the Times’ motto, “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”
The next issue of GM is on its way!
The very late (we’re working on that) but very essential September/October issue of Gilbert Magazine went to press today and should be arriving in subscribers’ mailboxes in a couple of weeks.
Jerry Pournelle: Distributist
Chesterton put it this way: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.” The enemy is not capitalism and wealth but the great concentration of wealth in the Servile State, or into Corporations, or into private hands. Too much capitalism means too few capitalists.
The Holy Mysticism of G.K. Chesterton
They were a scratch company of barbarians and slaves and poor and unimportant people; but their formation was military; they moved together and were very absolute about who and what was really a part of their little system; and about what they said, however mildly, there was a ring like iron.
Some Good News on the Pro-Life Front
Top companies have ended their financial support of Planned Parenthood. This is of course very good news and we applaud these companies for cutting off the spigot of cash to Murder Inc.