Not since Pascal compiled eight hundred or so fragments of religious insight into what would become his life’s work—a masterpiece of apologetics which he left unfinished at his death in 1670—has there been anything to match the sheer beauty and persuasiveness of the Pensées. Until, that is, G.K. Chesterton came along to give us Orthodoxy,…

I was never much of a conspiracy theorist. Sure, I heard the speculations (we didn’t land on the moon, vaccines cause autism, 9/11 was an inside job, etc.), but I usually just dismissed them with a shake of my head and maybe even a chuckle. I know that evil men can join together to do…