What’s Wrong with the World
About this audiobook
In this important book, G.K. Chesterton offers a remarkably perceptive analysis of social and moral issues, even more relevant today than in his own time. With a light, humorous tone but a deadly serious philosophy, he comments on errors in education, on feminism vs. true womanhood, on the importance of the child, and other issues, using incisive arguments against the trendsetters’ assaults on the common man and the family.
Chesterton possessed the genius to foresee the dangers of implementing modernist proposals. He knew that lax moral standards would lead to the dehumanization of man. In this book, he staunchly defends the family against those ideas and institutions that would subvert it and thereby deliver man into the hands of the servile state. In addressing what is wrong, he also shows clearly what is right, and how to change things in that direction.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a journalist and later began writing books and pamphlets. His work includes novels, literary and social criticism, political papers, and spiritual essays in a style characterized by enormous wit, paradox, humility, and wonder. He converted to Catholicism in 1922 and explores the nature of spirituality in many of his books and essays, including the mighty Orthodoxy. Chesterton is one of the few genuinely timeless authors, whose work has as much relevance today as when it was written.
Bernard Mayes is a teacher, administrator, corporate executive, broadcaster, actor, dramatist, and former international commentator on US culture. He is best known for his readings of historical classics.
