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Book Review: The Illustrated Longitude, by Dave Sobel and William J. H. Andrews
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Book Review: The Illustrated Longitude, by Dave Sobel and William J. H. Andrews

Posted on January 20, 2022January 21, 2022 by Brad Shorr

Longitude, first published in 1995, is a best-selling, award-winning  book about how Europeans figured out how to determine longitude at sea during the 18th and early 19th centuries. As early as the time of Columbus, Europeans relied heavily on sea…

Book Review – Chesterton in Black and White
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Book Review – Chesterton in Black and White

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Brad Shorr

A collection of Chesterton essays was published July of 2021: Chesterton in Black and White, Essays by G.K. Chesterton from Black and White and The Bystander, 1903-1904, edited by Geir Hasnes. These early essays, with a few exceptions, have never…

Relativism: The Religion of Feelings
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Relativism: The Religion of Feelings

Posted on November 20, 2021April 2, 2024 by Brad Shorr

One great benefit of COVID is how it has shed light on that which would prefer to remain in the shadows. It becomes ever more obvious the degree to which we are emphatically told one thing on Monday and emphatically…

Book Review – Platitudes Undone
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Book Review – Platitudes Undone

Posted on October 19, 2021November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

In 1911, Holbrook Jackson, a British journalist and socialist, privately published a little book called Platitudes in the Making, Precepts & Advices for Gentlefolk. G.K. Chesterton, a friend of Holbrook’s, received an autographed copy, and amused himself by handwriting witty…

On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G. K. Chesterton, edited by Alberto Manguel
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On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G. K. Chesterton, edited by Alberto Manguel

Posted on October 18, 2021November 21, 2021 by Brad Shorr

This collection of essays published in 2000 was a freebie at the 2021 Chesterton Conference. It includes several well-known essays along with many that were new to me. Unfortunately, the editor did not reference where or when the essays where…

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