Distributism and the Restoration of Freedom

By |2023-05-18T20:55:59-05:00May 18th, 2023|Categories: Books, Distributism, Economics, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

Alexander Salter’s "The Political Economy of Distributism" is a much-needed scholarly work on the ideas of distributism, as presented in the writings of Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton. Written in such a way that it will pass muster in the ivory towers of academe, it is also accessible for any reader interested in politics and [...]

Chesterton’s Other Brother

By |2023-02-20T16:56:22-06:00February 20th, 2023|Categories: G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

In many respects, Hilaire Belloc can be seen as Chesterton’s other brother, with whom he neither argued nor quarreled. Such fraternal friendships are forged in faith and find their fulfilment in heaven. We can be sure, therefore, that, irrespective of their sins and weaknesses, they are now not merely brothers in arms but brothers in [...]

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: Belloc & Eliot on Twelfth Night & Epiphany

By |2024-01-05T18:42:26-06:00January 5th, 2023|Categories: Christianity, Christmas, Epiphany, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Poetry, Senior Contributors, T.S. Eliot, Timeless Essays|

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas two of my great loves sent to me a couple of great meditations on the mystery of the Nativity. The first and better-known meditation is by T.S. Eliot, whose “Journey of the Magi” places the poet in the entourage of the Three Wise Men as they journey to Bethlehem. [...]

The Homecoming Book: Hilaire Belloc’s “The Four Men”

By |2023-07-26T18:06:49-05:00November 1st, 2022|Categories: Books, David Deavel, Death, Hilaire Belloc, Senior Contributors|

All natural loves, even love of the land, must suffer death and burial in the raw world and the winter of this life. But Hilaire Belloc, who “received the sacrament of that wide and silent beauty” of his native Sussex at night, was confident that he would see it and his departed friends face to [...]

A People Without History: T.S. Eliot’s Critique of Evolutionary History

By |2022-08-21T15:07:55-05:00August 21st, 2022|Categories: Benjamin Lockerd, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, History, Poetry, Senior Contributors, T.S. Eliot, The Imaginative Conservative, Timeless Essays|

H.G. Wells sought to free humanity from the “bondage” of tradition, but T.S. Eliot saw history not as an evolutionary movement, but a return to the past. While T.S. Eliot never made any comments critical of Charles Darwin or his theory of the evolution of species, he was quite critical of various popularized versions of [...]

Hilaire Belloc and His World

By |2023-07-16T00:49:11-05:00July 15th, 2022|Categories: Books, Christendom, Christianity, Featured, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce, StAR, Timeless Essays|

A friend of Christendom and of civilization in an age of decadence and barbarism, Hilaire Belloc thundered against the heresies of his age and defied the storms of war and secularism. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) is not as well-known as he and his talent deserve. From the last years of the reign of Queen Victoria until [...]

The English Way

By |2022-06-22T17:26:46-05:00June 21st, 2022|Categories: Books, Bradley J. Birzer, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Dawson, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Sainthood, Senior Contributors, St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More|

The Catholic Church canonized Saints Thomas More and John Fisher in 1935, only two years after the appearance of "The English Way," a work edited by one of the most important Christian humanists and publishers of the twentieth century, Maisie Ward, and which looks at the lives, ideas, and deaths of the great Roman Catholic [...]

Bellocian Pilgrimage & Feasting in Summer: “The Path to Rome”

By |2021-07-26T13:54:51-05:00July 26th, 2021|Categories: Books, David Deavel, Hilaire Belloc, Senior Contributors|

Written to record a four-week, 750-mile pilgrimage from Toul, France, to Rome for the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, "The Path of Rome" epitomizes Hilaire Belloc’s capacity for alternating the heights of sublimity, the depths of profundity, and broad belly laughs of old jokes. Although as a popular historian and religious and political polemicist [...]

Europe and the Faith: Arguing With Viktor Orban

By |2019-12-03T17:26:54-06:00January 20th, 2018|Categories: Christianity, Civil Society, Culture, Europe, Hilaire Belloc, Immigration, Joseph Pearce, Viktor Orbán|

President Orbán has the courage and integrity to stand up to the secularist bullying of the European Union and to the efforts to force Hungary to allow countless Islamic immigrants into its midst. And yet even heroes need correcting when they get things wrong… The discussion of Hillaire Belloc’s writing on Europe and the Faith, [...]

Europe and the Faith: Arguing With Hilaire Belloc

By |2019-03-07T10:44:53-06:00January 13th, 2018|Categories: Christianity, Civilization, Death, Europe, Faith, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, History, Joseph Pearce|

Europe may indeed perish, crucified by the sins, errors, and heresies of her own sons, but Christianity will never perish because, as Chesterton reminds us, it has a God who knows the way out of the grave… The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith. Hilaire Belloc These words of Hilaire Belloc, possibly the [...]

The Islamophobes Are Right … and Also Wrong

By |2017-10-05T08:43:47-05:00October 4th, 2017|Categories: Culture, Freedom, Hilaire Belloc, History, Immigration, Islam, Middle East, Muslim, National Security, Politics, Religion, Terrorism|

What ideology ever threatened America more than Islamic extremism? And yet might Islam, which once helped save and preserve Western thought and culture a thousand years ago, do something similar this century, helping to bring us back to a more spiritual, less materialistic, epoch?… 1938. The world is on the threshold of the most devastating war [...]

The Shakespeare Scholar Who Crossed Swords with C.S. Lewis

By |2021-05-03T15:44:39-05:00August 30th, 2017|Categories: C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce, Literature, StAR|

The Shakespeare scholar who crossed swords with C.S. Lewis describes Lewis in the early 1950s, at the height of his fame, as “a red-faced, egg-headed, portly, jolly, middle-aged man, who was (like Old King Cole) fond of his pipe and his glass of beer.” Father Peter Milward Father Peter Milward SJ, who died [...]

On the Mystery of Teachers I Never Met

By |2021-04-28T14:37:02-05:00July 21st, 2017|Categories: Aristotle, Christian Humanism, Education, Fr. James Schall, Great Books, Hilaire Belloc, Literature, Philosophy, Plato, St. Augustine, Tradition, Truth|

The mystery is how one person whom I never met, through recountings down the ages of how many others whom I also have never met, could shed light on each other, eventually to enlighten me. In The Apology, Socrates brought up the question of whether he was paid for being a teacher, like the Sophists, who were paid [...]

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