Publisher's Synopsis
"The subject matter is grave, as the title suggests. It was published in 1910, an ebullient moment, when the high industrialism and intellectual topsy-turvy of the 19th century still promised only good things, only "progress." Few in the West could see the brewing ideological storms that would soon make landfall not just in the form of world wars and totalitarianism-but the pervasive modern dehumanization that consumes us to this day. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of those few, a veritable cultural meteorologist. Yet you will never encounter a more genial guide to What's Wrong with the World. He bears his lamentations with good humor, studs his polemics with little gems of passing insight that are worth the price of admission alone ("Heaven does not work; it plays"). To read this work is to share the company of a witty friend who trusts your intelligence and addresses you at eye-level. Scholars consider What's Wrong an early expressi
