What’s Wrong with the World

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"What’s Wrong with the World" is a 1910 collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton in which he critiques modern social and political trends and defends traditional Christian and family values.

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instanceOf book
essay collection
author G. K. Chesterton NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre Christian apologetics
non-fiction
political philosophy
social criticism
hasInfluenced Christian social teaching
distributist thought
hasPart Education, or the Mistake About the Child NERFINISHED
Feminism, or the Mistake About Woman NERFINISHED
Imperialism, or the Mistake About Man NERFINISHED
The Emancipation of Domesticity NERFINISHED
The Free Family NERFINISHED
The Homelessness of Man NERFINISHED
The Romance of Thrift NERFINISHED
The Unfinished Temple NERFINISHED
The War of the Gods and Demons NERFINISHED
The Wildness of Domesticity NERFINISHED
language English
literaryMovement Christian humanism NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod Edwardian era NERFINISHED
mainSubject Christianity NERFINISHED
capitalism
distributism
education
family
feminism
modern political trends
modern social trends
property
socialism
notableQuote The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
positionHeld advocacy of small property ownership
advocacy of subsidiarity
critique of large-scale capitalism
critique of modern feminism
critique of socialism
critique of state overreach
defense of traditional Christian values
defense of traditional family structure
publicationYear 1910
publisher Cassell and Company NERFINISHED
setting early 20th-century Britain
workOf G. K. Chesterton NERFINISHED

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G. K. Chesterton notableWork What’s Wrong with the World