GK Chesterton warned against falling into the “foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe.”

Never Respectable: An Interview with Jason Jones

by Stephen Herreid

The inhuman ideologies that were spawning like spiders in Chesterton’s day are now neatly woven into our culture. The radical Eugenic and economic theories against which he battled so robustly have now conquered our culture, transforming it into the complacent, soft and murderous Culture of Death. In fact we could look to Chesterton as a patron of our time, since he was a battler against the Culture of Death “before it was cool.” We can take a cue from him: “It is always easy to be a modernist,” he wrote, but it is also “easy to be a snob.” We must avoid being either. 


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