Heretics - A Brilliant and Provocative Challenge to the Ideas Shaping the Modern World

With wit, paradox, and intellectual ferocity, G. K. Chesterton takes aim at the celebrated thinkers and fashionable ideas of his age.

In Heretics, Chesterton argues that modern society has become suspicious of conviction itself. People readily debate politics, art, economics, and social reform, yet hesitate to examine the deeper beliefs that shape their judgments. For Chesterton, every opinion ultimately rests upon a philosophy of life, whether acknowledged or not.

Across twenty essays, he ch...