Six Maniacal Observations from G.K. Chesterton
They'll help make sure you don't think like a maniac
G.K. Chesterton
What the Ape Man Can Teach Us About a Common Mental Mistake
Pithecanthropus is the ape-man. He's also known as the Java Man and the Peking Man. Latin-loving scientists call him Homo erectus, Homo modjokertenses, Meganthropus palaeojavanicus, Pithecanthropus robustus, and Pithecanthropus dubius.
He is the creation of Dutch physician Eugene Dubois. In the 1890s, Dubois discovered a few bony remains
Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Everlasting GKC for Advent
Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" as a rejoinder to Neil Young's smug "Southern Man. Likewise, GKC wrote The Everlasting Man as a rejoinder to H.G. Wells' Outline of History.
In both cases, the rejoinders won.
The Everlasting Man explains history as part
Are You Trapped in the World of Total Work?
Josef Pieper (with a G.K. Chesterton kicker) teaches us the importance of leisure
It’s commonplace knowledge that many of our best ideas hit us in the middle of the night or in our first waking moments. While we are completely at rest, not obsessed with ourselves or our
Everything Suddenly Comes Together for the Young G.K. Chesterton
"I had found this hole in the world: the fact that one must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly. I found this projecting feature of Christian theology, like a sort of hard spike, the dogmatic
Who’s Afraid of G. K. Chesterton?
By Michael Warren Davis at The Common Man (Substack)
Examples of GKC's Right-Hemispheric Brain Overly Stifling His Left Hemisphere
A Work-in-Process
St. Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox," by G.K. Chesterton
A Micro-Review/Essay
P.G. Wodehouse Referenced Booze . . . A Lot
Ah, yes. Three of my sons, post-wedding Mass last Saturday. It was, after all the struggles and cost, a glorious day. That's Alex, the groom, to the far left, then Michael and Jack to the far right. The other three guys are school chums.
Yes, "chums."