Volume 14 Number 8, July/August 2011 $5.50 “The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools is this: that there is a whole truth of things, and that in knowing it and speaking it we are happy.” —G.K. Chesterton Faith Reason Culture of Life Order the Conference talks from the 2011 St. Louis, Missouri Conference! Or download them from www.chesterton.org the american chesterton society qty. Dale ahlquist (President of the qty. Dr. pasquale aCCarDo (Professor of qty. leah Darrow (Former contestant on the American Chesterton Society) Developmental Research in Pediatrics reality TV show America’s Next Top Model) at Virginia Commonwealth University, The Poetic Prophet, and author of several books on medicine, The Mysticism of Modesty The Prophetic Poet literature, and detective fiction) and the Poetry of Purity qty. Christopher CheCK (Executive Vice The Christian Epic of qty. Dale ahlquist President of the Rockford Institute) Freedom – Chesterton’s The Chesterton and Lepanto: The Battle Ballad of the White Horse Father Brown and the Poem reDD Griffin (Instructor at Triton qty. qty. eleanor bourG niCholson College and founding director of the qty. Carl hasler (Professor of (Assistant executive editor of Dappled Philosophy at Collin College) Ernest Hemingway Foundation) Things and assistant editor for the Saint Austin Review, and editor of the Chesterton: A Battling for Elfland: Ignatius Critical Edition of Dracula) Franciscan Thomist? Chesterton and William Butler Yeats Damned Romantics: qty. robert Moore-JuMonville (Professor Chesterton, Shelley, Poetry, of Religion at Spring Arbor University qty. John C. “ChuCK” ChalberG (Actor and columnist for Gilbert Magazine) who specializes in G.K. Chesterton) and of course, Vampyres qty. 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You can order CDs using the ad on the insideT front cover, or order directly from www.chesterton. should have written only it and nothing else, because his org. Mp3s of the talks also are available for download. critics have actually complained that he wrote too much. Start planning for next year’s conference, to be held One anonymous reviewer, however, admitted that this in Reno, Nevada! age has been too timid and too grudging to acclaim great- ness, but Chesterton deserves the distinction, and this is ¶¶One of the speakers at this year’s conference was “a book to stir the blood and exalt the mind with the great Leah Darrow, who spoke on “The Poetry of Purity.” gusto of living.” Leah is the great-grand-niece of Clarence Darrow, whose biographer Kevin Tierney repeats the familiar story of the Darrow-Chesterton debate before a packed house at the good idea. And it is old.” Warstler quotes from the Wiki- Mecca Temple in New York City in 1930. As the audi- pedia definition of Distributism (wikipedia.org/wiki/ ence listened to Darrow explain his unquestioning faith in Distributism) that ends with the Chesterton maxim, “Too science (which, according to Tierney, was as naive as any much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but literal fundamentalist’s faith in the Bible), a power failure too few capitalists.” cut off the microphones. While Darrow waited helplessly for repairs, Chesterton brought a roar from the crowd by ¶¶A commentator on the American Chesterton Society’s shouting, “You see, science is not infallible!” [Darrow, Facebook page writes, “Discovered Chesterton through New York: Crowell, 1979, p. 360] reading about C.S. Lewis’s influences. Finished Napoleon of Notting Hill and am reading Orthodoxy. I’ve never read ¶¶If you have not checked out Paul Nowak’s Web site, The from an author who summed up human beings in such a Eternal Revolution, you should. Paul is a Chestertonian who beautiful and accurate fashion.” may be the only other person on earth attempting to do what Dale Ahlquist does: earn his bread solely by promot- ¶¶Parting Trifle: Lots of ink and cyberspace has been ing G.K. Chesterton. Paul sells Chesterton-inspired T-shirts, spilled analyzing the London riots of early August. Few books (The Way of the Christian Samurai and The Incon- people noticed, however, that heirs of Adam Wayne were venient Adventures of Uncle Chestnut), and games. Or, one on hand to defend innocent people against the marauding game: Uncle Chestnut’s Table Gype. What is Table Gype? barbarians. And in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood, “In his Autobiography, G.K. Chesterton mentions ‘the no less. As reported by The Telegraph, “Chefs and wait- well-known and widespread national game of ers leapt to the defence of members of the Gype’, which he and H.G. Wells invented,” Have a Trifle? Send it to public enjoying an evening at The Ledbury, Paul writes. “Specifically, Chesterton men- [email protected] an upmarket restaurant in Notting Hill, tions ‘I myself cut out and coloured pieces of London. Thugs and rioters armed with bats cardboard of mysterious and significant shapes, the instru- and wearing hooded tops forced their way into the two ments of Table Gype; a game for the little ones’.