Science and the Savages
Delusions of the modern student
Month: November 2010
The Revival of Philosophy – Why?
Why the world needs metaphysics
The Philosophy of Islands
To isolate a thing is to identify it
Philosophy for the Schoolroom
The sanities and certainties of human free thought
On Thoughtless Remarks
The corrupting effect of casual and conversational scepticism
Child Psychology and Nonsense
Putting nonsense in the wrong place
The Approach To Thomism
The philosophy of common sense
The Orthodoxy of Hamlet
Chesterton’s essay on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Pickwick Papers
G.K. Chesterton’s favorite Dickens book explained
Oscar Wilde
Chesterton writes about the artistic soul of Oscar Wilde
George MacDonald
An essay on one of Chesterton’s favorite authors
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The greatest of Shakespeare’s comedies, in Chesterton’s opinion
History Versus the Historians
On the benefits of studying history by reading the actual text of the time
Getting to Know the Middle Ages
Modern ignorance about the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century
On the eclipse of Christian theology during the rationalist advance
The Meaning of the Crusade
An analysis of one of the most misunderstood events in Christian history
