Dale Ahlquist is a Minnesota-based Catholic lay apologist who serves as president of the American Chesterton Society and publisher of Gilbert Magazine. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College and an M.A ...

George Bernard Shaw lived to be 94, dying 70 years ago, in 1950, and was for several decades, along with H. G. Wells, the most influential writer in the world, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The ordinary modern progressive position is that this is a bad universe, but will certainly get better. I say it ...

How GKC subverts the subversives. A prophet is never welcome in his own hometown. For a long time after the tumult of the Sixties, G. K. Chesterton’s writings seemed to have lost a welcome anywhere, ...

For a writer whose first two books were published 100 years ago, G.K. Chesterton is looking pretty contemporary. During his run for the Republican presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee quoted freely ...

Somewhere in William Words-worth's canon is the line, “Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath need of thee.” Dale Ahlquist seems to be saying something similar about Gilbert Keith ...

Father Brown's 12th series has captivated audiences with a fresh batch of intriguing cases set in the fictional Cotswolds village of Kembleford. Each week, viewers watch Father Brown, portrayed by ...