With his Falstaffian figure and combination Edwardian/Sir Galahad outlook, it is easy – and a mistake – to underestimate the talent and influence of G.K. Chesterton. Born in London in 1874, Gilbert ...

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 ...

A big man, physically and intellectually, Gilbert Keith Chesterton finally gets the big book he deserves. Father Ian Ker, who wrote a well-respected biography of Newman, among other books, has ...

Some historical figures manage to be both famous and obscure. John Newton, the slave trader who wrote “Amazing Grace,” has been boiled down to a perennial sermon illustration. The Earl of Sandwich ...

Devotees of the English writer and Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton rejoiced at the news that a Catholic bishop in England is seeking to open an investigation into whether he should be declared a ...