A review by allisonjpmiller
Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist

3.0

While it's nice to get a proper overview of all the different subjects Chesterton spoke on in his time, I don't always appreciate Ahlquist's commentary. He jumps to a lot of conclusions with far less finesse and insight than G.K. himself, and sets up a definitive political stance by the book's end that disservices Chesterton's own comments about how conservatives and liberals are BOTH missing the point. ("The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.")

Ultimately, I find myself glad to be done with this book - now I can get on with reading more of Chesterton's actual work, which I just bought a ton of. Woohoo!