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Chesterton and Shaw Atheist/Christian. Aquabib/wine drinker. Thin/fat. Vegetarian/meat eater. Socialist/Distributist. Shaw/Chesterton. They fought it out in print, they fought it out verbally. It would've been great to see those debates. But what made them so good? Chesterton's early biographer, Maisie

Riots, Shrine, Etc. Wow, so much to say, so hard to make it coherent. I'll just limit myself to a few random observations: I'm seeing increased evidence that the public, left and right and middle, are beginning to see that Antifa is the problem. If we

Free at Last, Free at Last Michigan has been set free. The uber-lockdown governor has finally relented and ended the lockdown. The new order [https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MIEOG/2020/06/01/file_attachments/1463964/EO%202020-110%20Emerg%20order%20-%20MI%20Safe%20Start.pdf] says, "You can do

New Episode Released Civil War, Restoration, Glorious Revolution [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/5/31/episode-77-civil-war-restoration-glorious-revolution] We left off Episode 76 with the Civil War, which the Roundheads, mostly Puritans, won decisively. There was a huge equality movement, you might say. Folks known as the “levellers” were ascendant, and

Background music or TV with the sound on? The bar in English-speaking countries traces its roots back to Roman Britain where drinking establishments flourished. The establishments declined with Rome, but they came back in the Middle Ages, largely through the efforts of monasteries to provide for travelers. By the fifteenth

Leaving I reached a momentous decision yesterday: I dropped the Drudge Report [https://www.drudgereport.com/] from my start-up pages in Google Chrome. I've for years enjoyed his libertarian leanings, with his kindly non-sectarian nod to the Catholic Church. He was, for me, what the Detroit Free Press

Face Masks in Northern Michigan Marie, five of our kids, and I took our annual trip to Alpena, Michigan for a long weekend. Five days. We normally go up in July or August for ten days, but weddings and other family exigencies have made the forecast pretty clear: virtually no

And that's where Belloc sits with many. Ignored and neglected. He rubbed people the wrong way while he was alive, too. His nasty wars with H.G. Wells are legendary, but even before the nastiness started, Wells didn't care for him. Wells cherished Chesterton's

Virtue or Vice? When it comes to one's own death, when does a person cross the line from abandonment to God's will (the finest thing) to reckless disregard for one's own health and life (a potential sin . . . Catechism 2288 [http://w2.vatican.va/archive/