Issue: Spring 2025

In conjunction with the 2025 Australian Chesterton Conference, the Campion College Library mounted a special display of its substantial Chesterton collection, including books signed personally by Chesterton.

In a review of a new edition of The Everlasting Man, Garry Nieuwkamp explores Chesterton’s interpretation of human history in the light of Christ, and how it reveals Les Murray’s vision of a “large poem in loving repetition, . . . inexhaustible and complete.”

The founder and director of a Chesterton centre in the west African state of Sierra Leone, John Kanu, reports on local initiatives inspired by Chesterton’s economic and educational ideas.

A report on the 2025 conference held at Campion College in November, which features such speakers as the well-known journalist and author, Greg Sheridan, and Emily de Rotstein and her husband Nes who are key leaders of the international Chesterton Schools Network.

Karl Schmude reflects on Chesterton’s foresight that the welfare state would provide services but endanger personal freedom and responsibility by nurturing an attitude of dependency on the state.