“When Chesterton had been on the London literary scene for only a few years, both the general public and the literary critics started realizing his great versatility… ‘It has been suspected for some time,’ wrote an anonymous critic, ‘that his foible is omniscience.’ (Manchester Courier, Mar. 18, 1905).”
Dale Ahlquist “Tremendous Trifles” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
In my latest appearance on Juno News, I join “The Fighter“ host and Canadian Taxpayers Foundation Alberta Director Kris Sims to discuss where Mark Carney currently squirms on climate and Hollywood remaking Animal Farm as an anti-capitalist metaphor.
“Work while you work,/ Play while you play;/ One thing each time,/ That is the way. All that you do,/ Do with your might;/ Things done by halves/ Are not done right.”
Complete text of “Work while you work” from McGuffey’s Primer, in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
“Great Hide & Seek players are hard to find”
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“Real primary creation (such as the sun or the birth of a child) calls forth not criticism, not appreciation, but a kind of incoherent gratitude. This is why most hymns about God are bad.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Great Dickens Characters” in Charles Dickens, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025) [he says Chesterton’s own “O God of Earth and Altar” (GKC only wrote the words) is good].
“Caution is the most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.”
“Unknown” quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Publishers do not deny that they are publishers unless there are poets lurking about.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted without further attribution in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the American withdrawal from liberal global policeman isn’t some weird departure from their geopolitical traditions, it’s a return to business as usual pre-1945. It was the intervening 80 years that was extraordinary and if people valued it they should have been more helpful to and less unpleasant about the Pax Americana.