Science and the Savages
Delusions of the modern student
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November 2010
The Revival of Philosophy – Why?
Why the world needs metaphysics
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The Philosophy of Islands
To isolate a thing is to identify it
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Philosophy for the Schoolroom
The sanities and certainties of human free thought
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On Thoughtless Remarks
The corrupting effect of casual and conversational scepticism
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Child Psychology and Nonsense
Putting nonsense in the wrong place
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The Orthodoxy of Hamlet
Chesterton’s essay on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The greatest of Shakespeare’s comedies, in Chesterton’s opinion
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History Versus the Historians
On the benefits of studying history by reading the actual text of the time
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Getting to Know the Middle Ages
Modern ignorance about the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century
On the eclipse of Christian theology during the rationalist advance
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The Meaning of the Crusade
An analysis of one of the most misunderstood events in Christian history
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Government and the Rights of Man
Lamenting the intrusion of government on the rights of man
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Democracy and Industrialism
The fading vision of democracy in our time
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Reflections on a Rotten Apple
A one-chapter explanation of Distributism
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A Misunderstanding about Method
A sketch of the first principles of Distributism
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