The Calvinist International
Bear with me, I’ve got a couple more posts on G.K. Chesterton to go. T.S. Eliot said of Chesterton: “Mr. Chesterton’s brain swarms with ideas; I see no evidence that it thinks.” Today’s passage, from a late collection called The Well and the Shallows, is a prime example of this. It is well known that Chesterton […]
About a decade ago, Adam Gopnik wrote a long essay in The New Yorker on G.K. Chesterton and his works called “The Back of the World: The Troubling Genius of G.K. Chesterton.” Gopnik is both an admirer of Chesterton, but one with critical distance–meaning that he does not write hagiography and therefore deserves to be listened […]