What's Wrong with the World

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative," for instance-across a wide variety of avenues: he was a literary critic, historian, playwright, novelist, columnist, and poet.This 1910 book is a unified work about all the broad array of worries that trouble the world, but it can be read in essaylike chunks. Discovering Chesterton's inimitable take on:. Wanted, an Unpractical Man. The Free Family. The Wildness of Domesticity. Oppression by Optimism. Wisdom and the Weather. The Unmilitary Suffragette. The Romance of Thrift. The Higher Anarchy. The Truth About Education. The Need for Narrowness. The Staleness of the New Schools. The Empire of the InsectAn excellent introduction to the world of G.K. Chesteton, this is a volume as pertinent today as it was a century ago.