Lecture 134: The Trouble(s) with Being a Journalist
Essays from The Daily News, May-October, 1913
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Chesterton University
A lecture series by Dale Ahlquist covering the wonderful and prolific writings of G.K. Chesterton.
Lecture 133: The Loyal Opposition
Essays from The New Witness, 1912-1913
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Lecture 132: First Hand Accounts
Essays from The Eye-Witness
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Lecture 131: Wise Beyond His Years
Essays from The Daily Herald, 1891-1893
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Lecture 130: A Primer in Paradox
Essays from Black and White, 1903-1904
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Lecture 128: In The Beginning Was…
Essays from The Speaker
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Lecture 127: Loving God and Loving Our Neighbor
Introductions to Books about Religion, Philosophy, and Society
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Lecture 126: Visions of Life
Introductions to Poetry, Plays, and Novels
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Lecture 123: The True Reformer
Chesterton’s Unwritten Book on Savonarola
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Lecture 121: Chesterton’s Unwritten Books – Part Two
More Books that Chesterton Wanted to Write but Never Did
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Lecture 120: Chesterton’s Unwritten Books – Part One
Books Chesterton Wanted to Write but Never Did
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Lecture 119: End of the Day
Essays from The Daily News, 1912-1913
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Lecture 118: Tyranny
Essays from The Daily News, October, 1910 – December, 1911
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Lecture 117: Politics, Cheese, Hair, Eternity, Freaks, and Fields of Blood
Essays from The Daily News, July 1909 – September 1910
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Lecture 116: The General of Generalization
Essays from The Daily News, January, 1908 – June, 1909
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Lecture 115: Anticipation
Essays from The Daily News, July 1906 – December 1907
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Lecture 114: Persuasion
Essays from The Daily News, 1905-June 1906
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Lecture 113: Short Articles on Huge Subjects
Essays from The Daily News, 1903-1904
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Lecture 112: Creative Vitality
Chesterton’s Essays from The Daily News, 1901-1902
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Lecture 111: Final Thoughts
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1935-1936 (the final columns)
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Lecture 110: Same New
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1932-1934
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Lecture 109: Therefore I Bring These Rhymes to You
The Final Volume of Chesterton’s Collected Poetry
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Lecture 108: I talk of peace; I talk of pain.
Chesterton’s Collected Poetry
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Lecture 107: “God Himself will not help us to ignore evil, but only to defy and to defeat it.”
Chesterton’s Writings on the Subjects of War and Peace
Lecture 106: Chesterton’s Rediscovered First Novel
Chesterton’s Long-Lost First Novel
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Lecture 105: Point Counter Point
Chesterton’s Witty Replies to Holbrook Jackson
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Lecture 104: Serene Passion and Fiery Peace
Volume 1 of Chesterton’s Collected Poetry
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Lecture 103: Pieces of a Puzzle
A Collection of Chesterton’s Short Stories and More
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Lecture 102: Mr. Hope
A Collection of Chesterton’s Short Stories and More
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Lecture 101: The Storyteller
A Collection of Chesterton’s Short Stories and More
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Lecture 100: The Romantic
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1929-1931
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Lecture 99: Spiritual Insolence
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1926-1928.
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Lecture 98: Closing the Account
A Lost – and Found – Father Brown story.
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Lecture 97: Godless
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1923-1925
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Lecture 96: Today’s News Yesterday
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1920-1922.
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Lecture 95: History Lessons from One Who Was There
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1917-19
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Lecture 94: Before and After
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1914-1916
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Lecture 92: Defending the Normal
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913
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Lecture 91: The Boat on a Stormy Sea
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910
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Lecture 90: Chesterton’s Pulpit
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907
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Lecture 89: Daylight and Nightmare
Stories with a Supernatural Element
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Lecture 87: The Spirit of Christmas
A Collection of Chesterton’s Writings on Christmas
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Lecture 86: The Apostle and the Wild Ducks
A Collection of Essays from Various Sources
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Lecture 85: Chesterton on Shakespeare
Chesterton’s Writings on the Bard
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Lecture 84: The Spice of Life
A Collection of Essays from Various Sources
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Lecture 83: The Man Who Was Orthodox
A Collection of Previously Uncollected Chesterton Material
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Lecture 82: Where All Roads Lead
A Book of Catholic Apologetics
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Lecture 81: Lunacy and Letters
Essays from The Daily News
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Lecture 80: The Glass Walking Stick
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 77: The Common Man
A Collection of Essays from Various Sources
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Lecture 76: The End of the Armistice
Essays from G.K.’s Weekly that Prophesied World War II
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Lecture 75: The Coloured Lands
A Collection of Poems, Drawings, and Stories
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Lecture 74: The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
Detective Stories Featuring Mr. Pond
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Lecture 72: Chesterton’s First Book?
Chesterton’s Ghost-Written Book About an Explorer in New Guinea
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Lecture 71: As I Was Saying
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 70: The Well and the Shallows
The Sequel to “The Thing”
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Lecture 69: The Scandal of Father Brown
The Final Collection of the Padre Problem-Solver
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Lecture 68: Avowals and Denials
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 67: St. Thomas Aquinas
The Best Book Ever Written on St. Thomas Aquinas
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Lecture 66: All I Survey
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 65: Christendom in Dublin
Chesterton’s Account of Attending the World Eucharistic Conference in 1932
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Lecture 64: Sidelights on New London and Newer York
Essays that Include Accounts of Chesterton’s Second Trip to America
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Lecture 63: Chaucer
Literary Criticism About One of the Giants of English Literature
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Lecture 62: All is Grist
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 61: The Resurrection of Rome
Chesterton’s Account of His Trip to Rome in 1929
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Lecture 60: Come to Think of It
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 59: Four Faultless Felons
Detective Stories with a Twist
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Lecture 58: GKC as MC
37 Introductions by Chesterton to Other Books
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Lecture 56: The Poet and the Lunatics
Detective Stories Featuring Gabriel Gale
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Lecture 55: Generally Speaking
A Collection of Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 54: Robert Louis Stevenson
Chesterton’s Analysis of the Famous Scottish Writer
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Lecture 53: The Judgment of Dr. Johnson
Chesterton’s Play About the Great Samuel Johnson
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Lecture 52: The Secret of Father Brown
The Fourth in the Collection of Mysteries Featuring the Man in Cloth
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Lecture 51: The Collected Poems
Political Poems Written by a Patriot
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Lecture 50: The Return of Don Quixote
Chesterton’s Last Novel
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Lecture 49: The Catholic Church and Conversion
Chesterton’s Reflections on Conversion in General
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Lecture 48: The Queen of Seven Swords
Poetry About the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Lecture 47: The Outline of Sanity
The Textbook for Distributism
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Lecture 46: The Incredulity of Father Brown
The Third Collection of Stories Featuring the Clerical Sleuth
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Lecture 45: William Cobbett
An Introduction to One of Chesterton’s Heroes
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Lecture 44: The Everlasting Man
Chesterton’s Great Book of Apologetics
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Lecture 43: Tales of the Long Bow
Chesterton’s “Distributist Novel”
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Lecture 42: Superstitions of the Sceptic
A Debate with G.G. Coulton, Who Totally Misunderstands the Middle Ages
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Lecture 41: St. Francis of Assisi
The Best Book Ever Written on St. Francis
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Lecture 39: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Detective Stories Featuring Horne Fisher
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Lecture 38: The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems
Chesterton’s Lesser-Known Epic Poem
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Lecture 37: What I Saw in America
Chesterton’s Account of His 1921 Trip to America
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Lecture 36: Eugenics and Other Evils
The Case Against a Scientifically-Designed Society
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Lecture 35: The New Jerusalem
Chesterton’s Account of His Trip to the Holy Land
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Lecture 34: The Uses of Diversity
Essays from Various Sources
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