Jeanie Hannaman

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Sophia Institute Press has published a new edition of G. K. Chesterton’s delightful book, What’s Wrong with the World. Though written some years before Chesterton’s conversion, this book already contains much of the classic Chestertonian vision, and is chock full of Chesterton’s delightfully paradoxical analysis of how we ought to think about life. Reading Chesterton is often much like being turned upside down, the better to see what you’re really up against... This is not a book review: What’s Wrong with the World is simply a jumping-off point because I am rereading it.

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - “My friend, fear is a great emotion,” a character says in her novel, looking back at the Terror. But then she adds, strikingly, “Not one of us was sufficiently afraid! Society should be afraid. A State should know fear. Governments should tremble. To tremble is to be strong. These things I am writing of have taken place and may reoccur at any moment!”