The Logical Vegetarian
From The Flying Inn, a satirical romp in which Chesterton inveighs against the forces of dreary and oppressive modernity
Gloria in Profundis
The unlikely and startling truth of the Incarnation
The Song of the Strange Ascetic
Chesterton can’t understand the heathen who isn’t even having any fun
Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity
A Chesterton essay on the work and thought of Leo Tolstoy
On Turnpikes and Medievalism
On the relics of medievalism
The Twelve Men
An incomparable explanation of juries
Why I Believe in Christianity
An explanation of why I think a religious philosophy necessary and why I think Christianity the best religious philosophy. – G.K. Chesterton
Why I Am A Catholic
The Church is not merely armed against the heresies of the past or even of the present, but equally against those of the future. – G.K. Chesterton
Skepticism and Spiritualism
An impartial person is a good judge of many things, but not of all. He is not (for instance) a good judge of what it feels like to be partial.
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas confronts other creeds of good and evil, without at all denying evil, with a theory of two levels of good.
The Religious Aim of Education
The deepest of all desires for knowledge is the desire to know what the world is for and what we are for.
Miracles and Modern Civilisation
For, obviously, the mere fact that a thing happens seldom, under odd circumstances and with no explanation within our knowledge, is no proof that it is against natural law.
Introduction to the Book of Job
The modern habit of saying, “This is my opinion, but I may be wrong” is entirely irrational.
Buddhism and Christianity
It is no disgrace to Christianity, it is no disgrace to any great religion, that its counsels of perfection have not made every single person perfect.
Science and the Savages
Delusions of the modern student
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
Lepanto
Chesterton’s masterpiece, an amazing piece of history and poetry
The Song of Right and Wrong
The poem that got Chesterton fired from The Daily News.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Chesterton’s “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” is one of the greatest anti-war and anti-government poems of all time.
A Hymn: O God of Earth and Altar
A Chesterton poem you can sing in church
The Rolling English Road
This is a poem that begs to be recited aloud
The Donkey
This is the best Palm Sunday poem we know
A Child of the Snows
A great Christmas poem, which has inspired numerous song writers
Negative and Positive Morality
Salvation is not negative, but highly positive
On Mending and Ending Things
Two opposite methods to reform
The Extraordinary Cabman
A parable on certainty
A Defence of Rash Vows
The vow as a truly sane thing
A Defence of Baby Worship
With each new baby, the whole universe is again put on trial
A Piece of Chalk
The importance and interest of small things