For our monthly meeting on May 17, 2026, we will begin our reading of Chesterton's What I Saw in America in the new semiquincentennial edition from ACS Books!  For more information, click here. As always, meetings will be held at Ivy Hall at 6 PM. See the meeting info page for more.

In this meeting, we will discuss:
Up to page 61:
"Introduction" by Dale Ahlquist.
"What Chesterton Saw and What We See" by Joseph Pearce.
Chapters 1 - 4, "What is America?," "A Meditation in a New York Hotel," "A Meditation in Broadway," and "Irish and Other Interviewers."

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This summer, the Society will be reading through the new Chesterton Society edition of G.K. Chesterton's What I Saw in America, featuring essays by Dale Ahlquist, Dan Kerr, Joseph Pearce, William Fahey, and Christopher Check, and some explanatory annotations by your humble webmaster.

Purchase your copy today at the Society of GK Chesterton's website!

See below the jump for our meeting schedule and the plan of reading! 

The Society will meetin April on Sunday, April 19 at 6 PM at Ivy Hall to discuss three brief pieces by Chesterton, two essays and a poem.

The pieces have to do with war, but this will not be a discussion of the present war, nor for the exchanging of opinons about current events. Rather, it is intented to be a look into Chesterton's mind as he lived through turbulent times and see whether he has any insights or thoughts that can help us in forming our own sentiments and opinions.

[NOTE: At last meeting, we discussed reading ACS Books' new edition of What I Saw in America and discussing this at several upcoming meetings in honor of the country's semiquincentennial. We will still be doing this, beginning in May - a reading schedule will be available at this meeting in April, along with copies of the book for purchase for anyone interested!]

The pieces we will discuss this month are as follows. Click the titles to follow the links: 

• "The Philosophy of Bullying" (Essay, Daily News, 1904) 
• "The Giant" (Essay, Daily News, 1908)
• "A Song of Defeat" (Poem, Daily News​, 1907)

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Our postponed conversation from February will be held Sunday, March 15 at 6:00 PM at Ivy Hall — as we discuss the infamous relationship of Chesterton and Shaw through the lens of some recorded debates between the two. RSVP for this meeting below the jump (click "Read more" if you're on the homepage).

We'll note the tactics and positions of these two titans, and inquire as to how they maintained such a cordial friendship in spite not only of such deep disagreements, but also the fact that, at least sometimes, those disagreements seemed from the outside to be rather disagreeable!

Our readings are assembled in the packet which you can download here or using the button below. 

Note that we are deviating from our norm of third-Sunday meetings this month, owing to scheduling difficulties. 

For our meeting in December 2025 - on Sunday, December 21st, at 6:00 PM at Ivy Hall - we are going  to try again for a reading and discussion of the reading packet we put together last year. Owing to illnesses and travel and other schedule conflicts, our meeting in December 2024 was only attended by a couple of guests, but we think the collection of readings we've put together are very worth revisiting and discussing with a larger group.

​As with last year's attempt, we will again include as part of this meeting a practical demonstration of the game, "Snapdragon." It will be important to see the game played because, as the discussion will hopefully bring out, the "principle" Chesterton discerns behind this game could, with no exaggeration, be called the core principle of his whole philosophy of life and morality - no, really! 

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