Since he published Orthodoxy in 1908, G.K. Chesterton has inspired Christians and challenged skeptics with his unique wit and wisdom. He delivered biting analysis still relevant today: “A man was ...

In “Orthodoxy,” G.K. Chesterton explains that madness is not a lack of rationality, as we typically think, but more often an excess of it. He uses the example of a man who believes that everyone is ...

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 ...

As global events spin out of control, consider that our fallen world has always been this way, and we need not look only to ourselves for answers. We have the wisdom of the past. In his spiritual ...

The three concerns cited by Doyle are that Chesterton lacks a “cult” of local devotion, the lack of a “pattern of personal spirituality” that could be discerned through his writing, and charges of ...