Why G.K. Chesterton Defended the French Revolution—and Why His Critics Still Misread Him
Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski take up the most neuralgic subject in G.K. Chesterton scholarship: his defense of the French Revolution....
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What G.K. Chesterton Said about St. John Vianney
For the memorial of St. John Vianney, Joe Grabowski reads a rarely reprinted G.K. Chesterton essay—The Challenge of the Curé d'Ars—written a...
G.K. Chesterton on the Death of Literacy
A new Atlantic cover story argues that America is sliding into a postliterate age—but G.K. Chesterton diagnosed the same collapse in 1928, y...
The Chestertonian Writer on the Road to Canonization
On the heels of the announcement that Sigrid Undset's cause for canonization has been opened, Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski consider th...
The Idea That Makes America More Like a Church Than a Nation
This episode is a re-air. For Independence Day, Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski set conversation aside and let G.K. Chesterton speak. Thi...
Five Myths You Probably Believe About G.K. Chesterton, Demolished
Everyone thinks they know G.K. Chesterton: the beer-loving, pipe-smoking, gluttonous genius who tossed off masterpieces without breaking a s...
How Chesterton Saw Big Business and Big Government Becoming Allies Before Anyone Else Did
G.K. Chesterton published The Outline of Sanity in 1926—a blueprint for a third way between capitalism and socialism, grounded in widespread...
How One Line from G.K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man Sent an Artist Around the World
G.K. Chesterton wrote that there are two ways of getting home—stay there, or walk around the entire world until you arrive from the other di...
What G.K. Chesterton Might Have Said about America's Consecration to the Sacred Heart
G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1926 that "the heart of Christendom is a heart" and in this episode, Joe and Grettelyn discover that this single li...
How G.K. Chesterton Saw Through False Progress, Freud, and the Screen Age — and Why the World Is Still Catching Up
Two of G.K. Chesterton's most unexpectedly prophetic essays take center stage in this issue of Gilbert Magazine: "An Architect's Nightmare,"...
What G.K. Chesterton Knew About Technology That Took Science 15 Years to Prove
G.K. Chesterton once observed that after learning to do a great many clever things, the next great task would be learning not to do them. Th...
The Edwardian Socrates: G.K. Chesterton as Philosopher
Landon Loftin, editor of Chesterton and the Philosophers and a speaker at this summer's Chesterton Conference, joins Joe Grabowski to discus...
How Frances Chesterton Found Her Way to Rome
One hundred years ago, Frances Chesterton quietly entered the Catholic Church on All Saints Day—the feast she chose for herself. In this epi...
What Hangs Straight on a Crooked Wall: Chesterton's Marian Poetry
In honor of May, Our Lady's Month, Joe and Gretalyn each bring a favorite Marian poem by G.K. Chesterton to share with the other—without any...
Celebrating Chesterton's Vision of Sanity at the 2026 Conference
Gretelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski invite listeners to join them this June at the 2026 Chesterton Society Conference in Ave Maria, Florida. T...
The Man Who Carried a Swordstick and a Pen: Holly Gyger Lee on Writing Chesterton for Young Readers
GK Chesterton was many things—journalist, philosopher, poet, and debater—but what does his life look like through the eyes of a young reader...
What Bilbo and Boethius (and Chesterton) Teach Us About Adventure
What does it mean to be inconvenienced? Chesterton has a paradoxical answer. Joe Grabowski and Grettelyn Darkey unpack one of Chesterton's m...
Chesterton on Almsgiving, Art, and American Idiom
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Reclaiming Joy in a Mechanical World w/ Filmmaker Nick Bash
Joe Grabowski sits down with Nick Bash, a Biola University alum who studied filmmaking alongside the Rhetoric Honors Great Books Program, to...
The Poetic Genius of G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"
In this episode, Joe talks about one of Chesterton's most famous, but still too little studied, poems, "The Donkey." Learn a bit more about...