“G.K. Chesterton” Articles

For Algernon Blackwood, the natural world is not just natural: it is animated, enchanted, redolent with presences most often detectable only apart from our five senses.

In Rurouni Kenshin, the reverse-blade sword is a sign to those who know him that Kenshin is different: a counter-cultural man of principle with a higher purpose.

Stunt food, pursued in the name of novelty, turns out to be more of the same old, same old.

The Man Who Was Thursday equips us to endure our “dissolving age” by reminding us that there is a larger plan set in motion ages ago by the author of our existence.

The knowledge celebrated on Jeopardy! demonstrates one aspect of witness: a positive delight in that “adorable triviality” of a universe that was made for more than our own paltry purposes.

Quantico’s first season poses the question, When, if ever, does a large system become too corrupt to preserve?

Stranger Things contrasts the ordinary with the extraordinary, the normal with the supernatural, and the mundane with the unexpected.

The story of Hannah is a parable of coming to terms with just how normal our humanness is.

In his Vine videos, King creates a fictive world that is, in one sense, enchanted.

It is precisely the contrast between the damaged yet ultimately sympathetic heroes and their maniacal foes that make Guardians of the Galaxy tick.

We don’t love Kansas City because it’s better. We love it because it’s home.

“Some say “I follow Peter,” and others say “I follow Apollos.” Well, here are a few guys whose hearts are sold out for comedy alone. Soli commedia gloria.”

Even in the absence of scientific breakthroughs, even when the specter of failure is imminent — success or not — science is worth doing.