A review by piusgreg
Heretics by G.K. Chesterton

4.0

This is one of Chesterton's lesser-known works, but I found it emminently enjoyable. He is responding to and critiquing contemporary authors of his day, and consequently many of the people and events he references may not be familiar to the reader. Indeed, even when I had heard of an author he was responding to, I often wasn't as familiar with the author as I would have needed to be in order to fully appreciate Chesterton's response. Nonetheless, Chesterton usually explains the position he is critquing clearly enough for the reader to follow along, and his writing has so many gems of insight and witty comments that I found that I didn't need to be familiar with everything in order to enjoy the read. I also found an uncanny similarity between many of the positions he references and many of the views that are held in the public arena today. Highly recommended.