The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 04: What's Wrong with the World; The Superstition of Divorce; Eugenics and Other Evils; Divorce vs. Democracy; Social Reform vs. Birth Control

by G.K. Chesterton, James V. Schall

The first of two volumes devoted to Chesterton's political, sociological, and economical writings. Gilbert K. Chesterton staunchly opposed any assaults by the trendsetters on the common man.

Genres: Philosophy, Religion, Essays, Classics, History, Economics

442 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1987

About the author

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.

Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.

Reviews

[Sean Hadley · Rating 5 out of 5]

What's Wrong with the World (9.22.2025)

[Francisco Márquez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading Chesterton's socio-political essays has been a fascinating experience, especially for the fact that he was prophetical on the consequences of all the progressive agenda of his days. It is also interesting to note how he attacks capitalism as the source of all evils of modern life, and that proves that Christians should get educated firstly on Church Social Teaching so as to avoid being trapped in both right-wing and left-wing ideologies.

[Denise Mccue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant thinker. I struggled with many portions of this because he wrote of political figures and situations from his time and country that I was unfamiliar with. Glad I read it, but I felt a little out of my league!