In late September 2022, shortly after the election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s presumptive new Prime Minister, a surprisingly loud fervor was caused by her mention of Chesterton in a speech. References to her speech and Chesterton reverberated through the main stream media, and caused quite a stir. Personally, I received many excited emails pointing…
Category: Distributism
A Hope for the Decline of Civilization
Now, I’m not a Luddite, but will admit, as a mother of 7 boys, to have wished that technology might disappear, or at least be severely limited in my home. Playstation restrictions and rules do little to curb the attraction my boys have to the blinking lights, fast action, and endorphins generated by the infernal…
Chesterton’s Fence Part II
The alternative to the family is the individual. Within the family is mutual obligation. The parent cares for the child, and the child is then obligated to obey and care for the parent. Chesterton saw that as first the father and then the mother was removed from the home, the basic unit of society was…